Gotta save on those server costs.
Watch him ban every mention of Signal or Telegram as well when people try to get around the DM issue.
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It is not meant for companies and companies who regularly talk to customers on twitter will definitely turn this feature off. So you will likely still be able to talk with any company that wants to talk with its customers on twitter.
It is meant for regular folks who get lot of unsolicited spam in their inboxes. It puts an immediate stop to those. So in that sense, it’s a tricky but good move.
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They don’t need a blue thing just to talk. They can just turn the feature off and they will be available to receive messages again from their customers. It’s just as simple as it was earlier to keep your messages open or closed to general public.
I sure hope they check regularly; the setting seems to reset every other days to “only blue people”.
So, is musky boy intentionally running twitter into the ground? That’s gotta be it, right?
I don’t think so, solely because his ego wouldn’t allow it. Tanking Twitter is making him a laughingstock. There’s no way he would’ve done that intentionally.
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They are very concerned about a potential GOP wipe out next election.
that just leaves room for the second biggest communication platform to become the biggest platform.
and tbh the newest generation uses tiktok more to stay informed
Which also has momentum to get it shut down. The fact that I agree with shutting it down makes me wonder if it’s actually the smart idea or if I’ve just bought the propaganda behind that drive.
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Tiktok is already bigger than Snapchat, Twitter and reddit
and yes. many politicians and meta see tiktok as a threat
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i don’t know what the age distribution is but you certainly have a large population of current and future voters.
it’s certainly more left, but with every large platform it’s really a reflection of society at large.
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Because he’s been fucking them for 6 months and they haven’t left.
I did, and some others have. But most people are still sitting there on his platform, whining about how shitty it is, while keeping him in power by staying.
Because the short-term equation is easy:
Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.
And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that’s a problem for next quarter
It’s the enshitification that keeps on shitting.
I kind of like it.
Everytime, they raise the bar
edit: crap gifs don’t work on lemmy yet
https://tenor.com/view/can-we-get-much-higher-the-one-piece-is-real-whitebeard-gif-26587931
I think they do but not in jerboa?
good 2 know
nor liftoff :(
nor Summit
And my axe!
They do seem to work on Connect (though not the original linked gif, but the one further down).
Funnily enough I was about to attach a screenshot to show it, just to have realization smack me in the head with why that wouldn’t work for a couple of reasons lol
im on liftoff 😂✌️
❤️
Does anyone actually DM in Twitter? I’m sure the checkmark bots do it not realizing 85% of the other checkbots are propaganda bot accounts too lol
If you’re one of those artists/animators that, for whatever reason, thought basing the entirety of their commission system via Twitter was a good idea, they’re definitely going to be affected.
When it used to bypass paywalls i was using it
I did!, but only because I didn’t have a buddy’s new number then became habit, asked for the new number when Elon started to shit on twitter
Who knew that removing functionality and limiting access to your product was the path to social media success.
The youtube playbook
Apparently reddit attended the same workshop.
Wait, really?! How?
I think they also plan to block you viewing Reddit in mobile browsers so you must get their app.
And that will be when I completely stop browsing Reddit. I already dropped my useage by probably 95%. If they do that, it’ll drop to about 99.9% since I do most of my browsing away from my desk.
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For real lol. It was my “information” app for coffee breaks at work or when I had downtime. I’m only at my computer to game, not browse Reddit
They just announced they’re removing the coins/awards system.
They also deleted all chat history from prior to this year.
How else are we supposed to know that the [removed] comment at the top of r/news or r/politics was the best content in the thread?
I don’t know, but don’t read it unless they gilded themselves 3 times… whoops.
Spez literally said in an interview that Musk’s handling of twitter is what inspired him so
“This guy lost like $30B under a year. I wanna be just like him!”
How fucking stupid are these people?
The thing to remember is that CEOs aren’t typically any smarter than the average person. They ended up in that position from inheritances, personal connections, etc. In the case of Musk, he has so much disposable income around that he can throw $30B at something and still have more than you or I will ever earn in a lifetime.
But you just know he has people that are on the payroll specifically to advise him and develop strategy. Either they’re surrounded by yesmen or they’re too arrogant to listen to the people they pay for advice. Okay, it’s probably both.
Ever see Glass Onion? Musk (and spez) are Miles Bron.
We’re Disruptors.
I actually haven’t but added it to my list of movies I need to watch. Thanks!!
Spez sold Reddit for some small $mils before failing his other project and returning as a hired CEO. He is a cheapskate among media magnates. He isn’t clever and is a loser. He adores Elon because he wishes he can throw money around just like him, but on the day’s end he knows he doesn’t have comparable wealth and he is there just because he happened to be around Aaron Swartz and other cool dudes. He himself couldn’t create Reddit. And being the top admin of it now is probably the closest thing in corporate world to cuckolding, for he doesn’t have a word in managing the ‘frontpage of the internet’ he once owned, he just follows what the board says him to. Sad piece of shit he is. Won’t cry about him tho. Let misery fall onto his little empty head.
Spez was also a former mod of r/jailbait and no one should ever forget that.
They also gifted a statuette to u/violentacrez or what’s his handle? for powermodding dozens of nsfw subs, including borderline paedophilic, violent and abusive ones, like revenge porn partners upload after a break up to hurt their ex-couple.
They did great at handling the search of a boston bomber. Fuck ups happen way more often than forum dudes finding ISIS camp by triangulating the sky in a picture. I’m kinda happy to have this viral and well-documented drama to refer.
They rarely ever did their job before the press got involved, or they step into prison sentence territory. My personal favorite waa when altright sub stickied a link to crowdfund a contract killer for a guy who punched a right-wing talking head Robert Spencer on camera. Then, you have fatpeoplehate and other subs that weren’t as dense and worked for years. Right before Spez’s very eyes. Not to say some mass-shooters were frequenting and were inspired by these spaces too.
While modding jailbait is discussed (like, you could promote to a mod role everyone – that’s how he excuse it), these things were consciously enabled by him. He platformed the worst people you can think of. And it sure shall not be forgotten.
They’re welcome to write me a check for 30 billion if they are looking to waste it. Jeez.
I need a link 👀
Huffman said he saw Musk’s handling of Twitter, which he purchased last year, as an example for Reddit to follow.
I don’t see the logic in making this change. Is someone supposed to want to join blue just so they can DM people that haven’t changed the default setting?
Yes.
It’s a pay-to-harass scheme.
We need him to find the niveau.
Watch it burn lol
Hmm you plebs just don’t understand how big our Lord and Savior Elon Musk’s brain had to be to come up with something so sophisticated and brilliant. This is truly a step in human evolution.
But you can change it back. Here’s how.
At this point, why even bother?
And you’re relying on anyone else you want to DM changing that setting too. Otherwise, you’re SOL even if you’ve changed it on your end.
Just leave the god damn platform :)
I never had a Twitter to begin with. I’m certainty not going to get one now lol.
Same here, never had a Twitter account, never will.
Geez, Elon, I already deleted my account two weeks ago! I don’t need more convincing to leave!
