One of the most important tools for trust and safety efforts is the “block” feature, allowing a user to entirely block someone else from following them. Yes, on Twitter you can get around this by g…
  • NabiscoShredderWheat@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzEnglish
    30·
    2 years ago

    Watching this man’s trainwreck is so mind boggling. I mean just a decade ago he had every single one of us believing he was real life Tony Stark. I mean even pop culture sci fi like Star Trek mentioned him along Sagen and Einstein… He really pulled the wool over our eyes.

    • coldblade2000@beehaw.orgEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Man even got an Iron Man 2 cameo as himself, and had scenes (of the bad guys factory lmao) filmed in a SpaceX factory

    • zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Well, he used to have a really good PR team, along with teams at Tesla and SpaceX to prevent him from breaking anything important.

      Then he fired the PR team and took direct control of a company that didn’t have a team of handlers.

      We’re now seeing the real Musk instead of Musk filtered through teams of competent people.

    • dreadedchalupacabra@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      All he had to do was sit in his money bunker and make dumb tweets about harmless things and he’d have eventually died a legendary figure.

      Now he’s infamous for a totally different reason. I mean look at Richard Branson. That could be Elon right now, as the worst case scenario. Some hyper-rich dude that most people are aware of but that you never hear much negative on in the media. He just kinda exists, does billionaire stuff. Heck, even Bezos right now. When’s the last time you saw Bezos show up negatively in the news? And neither of them had a full on cult of personality forming around them.

    • geissi@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      he had every single one of us believing he was real life Tony Stark

      Who is us?

    • pineapple@lemmy.pineapplemachine.comEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Watching this man’s trainwreck is so mind boggling. I mean just a decade ago he had every single one of us believing he was real life Tony Stark. I mean even pop culture sci fi like Star Trek mentioned him along Sagen and Einstein… He really pulled the wool over our eyes.

      Hey, not every one of us. I disliked Elon Musk before it was cool. I thought he was always obviously just another obscenely wealthy self-centered guy with good PR.

    • technologenesis@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      His hype was otherworldly. I honestly think it outstripped his own efforts and became a cultural thing, probably affected his own self-perception to no small degree… Now here we are.

  • Eddie Hitler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Between Reddit getting rid of moderation tool, now Musk getting rid of block, it’s going to be a race for which becomes 4chan2.

    • dreadedchalupacabra@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Reddit is winning right now. You still get the daily digests from them? The stuff it’s suggesting to me is wild. You’d never even see it if a lot of the website’s traffic didn’t suddenly get thanos snapped.

    • Knickknack@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is why I’m not sweating it when Reddit didn’t immediately implode and die due to the protests and blackouts. It’s going to take time, but if they keep going in the direction they are, eventually only the low lifes will want to be there.

  • nukul4r@feddit.deEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    Musk: Forces his own tweets into peoples feeds

    Users: Block his account

    Musk: Hold my beer…

    • ruckblack@partizle.comEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I’m trying to get accustomed to Mastodon. Having sort of the same issue I’m having here though - kinda difficult to find people/communities

      • Aurix@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I believe in the long run there will be a focus on development for better, customizable, algorithmic discoverability, because as much as the Silicon Valleys algorithms are harmful, there are still benefits to them. For example I had to mute some interesting accounts, because their posting frequency floods my timeline. Hopefully it won’t be necessary in the future.

        • ruckblack@partizle.comEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Agreed, that’s what I’m hoping for. We can have algorithmic curation and discovery without the advertising fluff.

      • MagicShel@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’m almost immediately a lot more comfortable here than Mastodon. I’ve been on Mastodon pretty much since Elon’s takeover of Twitter started to materialize, but I rarely interact there. I don’t like to microblog, and I’m not particularly interested in reading them, although I’ve had some good conversations there around hashtags rather than people, but the issue is that hashtags aren’t universal, so the content you get following one depends greatly on your home instance.

        Lemmy is exactly how I used Reddit. Join a community, find interesting posts, reply to interesting comments. The UI is obviously a little rougher and I guess the biggest thing missing is a global search to find communities. Many of the communities I’ve subscribed to are pretty low-volume at this point, and I’m just waiting to see if they take off or I find one that suits me better.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.oneEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    I was never a twitter user, but from the headlines I’ve seen it makes me think that Musk has some slimy back deal that will pay him off somehow if he torpedoes the site.

    • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      The ongoing theory is that Twitter played some role in the Arab spring and the Saudis paid for a lot of the buyout exactly because they want it gone.

  • bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Do you want people to stop using your site? Because this is how you get people to stop using your site.

    • dreadedchalupacabra@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      It’s a thing with large corporations that want to do something unpopular, and she probably knows he’s doing it. Hire a woman to be a CEO, do ALL SORTS of nasty things that she can’t directly veto because you’re the owner, then fire her for the backlash to those things and come in as a conquering hero.

      The Ellen Pao effect.

  • WildLlama
    7·
    2 years ago

    Ugh, that really sucks, specially cause I have 5668 blocked accounts.

    • kometes@beehaw.org
      14·
      2 years ago

      I created a new twitter account, blocked every conservative I could find, and now just post “Fuck Donald Trump” in all the popular threads. Twitter has to make sure none of those nitwits see my post and Watermelon Musk has to pay for the processing. Petty, but I’m not sweating.

    • atp2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Doesn’t need a block button when he has the power to unilaterally nuke any account that posts his receding hairline photo

  • samick1@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Twitter isn’t like reddit in that hashtags don’t have moderators. They outsourced moderating to the users, and now Musk has decided to remove it entirely.

    I don’t get it.