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So what you're saying is, if I have a Twitter account and I start blocking many MANY people it costs Elon money? Interesting.
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Battle royale!
The source showed the tweet as an image, so I went into the sewer waters from Fritter. And, yep, it's genuinely there.
It's not even that I believe him unable to have such bad takes: it's not the first time. I have just seen a few fake ones. But the fake ones aren't even needed!
I assume he will still have the block button though.
Whats going on with social media CEOs making dumb decisions these days..
At the top levels, they are rich and well-connected enough that they don't have to worry about failing like regular people.
They can burn millions, billions of dollars and still get out with a fat paycheck, a pat on the back, and another CEO/exec job lined up by one of their many wealthy friends. Either that, or they are "forced" into retirement where they live large for their remaining lives.
I wish somebody would force me into a wealthy retirement...
it's not about money. it's about power
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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This level of nob gobbling takes focus.
Except for his account, I'd bet.
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Bro it's like he WANTS us to only see t shirt ads
I only see this as going well for him/Twitter.
Not really, it’s definitely going to be interesting to watch it go up in flames 🍿
I just don't understand some of these decisions...
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Let's be real, he's doing this because he's upset about people blocking Twitter blue accounts, this in no way increases server costs or any bull shit like that
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I really hope platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon take off. Just the idea of no single person with control over how we all communicate and share ideas gives me hope for the future.
sadly, Mastodon currently still is pretty centralised around a few very big instances. I hope the Fediverse gets more decentralised…
What does it take to facilitate this? Do individuals have the ability to help it along, or does it take more resources? I'm new to this but would like to learn.
You just have to (encourage others to) register on an instance with less than, say, 1000 active users. I think that's already taking care of most of the issue.
I think if one of them goes sour it'll be easier for people migrate to another mastodon instance, and for that instance to grow. When Twitter goes bad, there's not just a convenient alternative exactly-Twitter-but-run-by-different-people around the corner. But those small Mastodon instances could grow if they had an influx (to a point, and probably better so if the influx was gradual).
Edit: especially because federation means that the people who move to the new instance can still see and interact with everyone on the old instance, so they can't be held to the old instance merely by the presence of their friends on that instance. Unless the old instance blocks federation with wherever people start moving to, but still.
So he's run out of engineers that know how to maintain the block feature?
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