Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

      • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        As are any single persons with this much money and, in consequence, power. It’s the old problem with monarchy all over again. Sure, you could get a benevolent leader that favoured the arts, but it was more likely that is was a spoiled inbred who wanted to be famous by starting a few wars with neighbors.

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        elonMusk is a problem because people let him be a problem.

        sing this part with L7 in your head: the masses are asses

    • DasRubberDuck@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      34
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      1 year ago

      Oil companies are not the problem, people who still drive their car to work are!

      Are you sure about that?

        • DasRubberDuck@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          14
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          I agree that people should stop using twitter and if nobody used it, it would stop being relevant. But it still is relevant at this point. We’ve put a big piece of our “interaction infrastructure” in the hands of a small number of maniacs. If those maniacs misbehave, they need to be punished.

          Just nationalize twitter and be done with it.

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      But it’s a problem people keep using Twitter because of what musk has done. Without his antics, using Twitter wouldn’t really be a bad thing, would it?

      • joe@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        Well, arguably the microblogging format does have some intrinsic disadvantages.

          • joe@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            8
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            I would argue that the format incentivizes short quips and discussions lacking nuance in favor of brevity, and yes, therefore it’s “bad” (to use their term) to use Twitter even if musk wasn’t turning it into Truth Social.

            • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              I would argue that a brief, broadly encompassing feed has its advantages when it’s not being driven into lunacy. Discussions on Twitter are always terrible, but as a source for news headlines and media announcements it works pretty well.

              • joe@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                Sure, but you can get that with something more long-form, too; it’s not exclusive to Twitter/microblogging .

                  • joe@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    3
                    ·
                    1 year ago

                    Well, that’s a good point but I still think there are better services than Twitter/microblogging for that. Like our old friend RSS

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        until he bought the thing, it wasn’t

        hate posting racists used to be banned. They had to create a dozen accounts just to spread their scum

    • Wogi@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      Asteroids are not the problem. Dinosaurs who live in their path are!