I was never big on Twitter, I’m here thanks to Spez.
As much as I agree with the author, I’m also skeptical to bet against Musk.
On the other hand, Twitter is a mess he got himself into - not a project he actually pursued.
With that in mind I’ll give him (a very generous) 20-30% chance that X lives on to actually be a somewhat relevant platform of sorts and hasn’t gone belly up within the next two years.
Mostly because of the gravity Twitter had and the following that Musk has, not because the ideas seem like sound business concepts.
He’s stated he wants to make it in to an “everything” app/web sight, which to me implies a payment method, and given his attempt to cultivate crypto fans, I think it’s safe to say, he is in fact trying again to make “X” as a payment method work, I suppose he figures the issue last time was a shortage of mass adoption, and with twitters built in user base that’s less an issue now.
Obviously, there are to many glaring issues in this to count, but when has that ever bothered him?
@Greenpepper I actually appreciate how Musk ruined Twitter. I was never fan of that service anyway. That means alternatives have a chance to grow. :-) Thank you Elon.
Interacting with someone famous was very cool. Asking a musician what something means and getting a reply and then a little back and forth… Twitter was an amazing thing for awhile.
Twitter’s effect on politics at least in the UK has been pretty negative in my opinion, it drives journalists towards short-form hot takes rather than journalism.
Advertisement has ruined journalism. Click-bait and light weight articles that lure people in to see as many ads as they can possibly cram between the lines and around the article, before they sell your reading patterns and digital fingerprint to the highest bidder.
Put words like Elon or Tesla in a headline and you get more clicks than if you didn’t. Bait the headline so people get curious and click in.
Make sure that you fill the top half of the page with generic text and copy-pasta so that you can show a few more ads before you actually come to the point of the article.
Use some AI to generate extra fluffiness or automate writing of sports and finance articles.
Social media certainly didn’t help, but when almost every news outlet wants to participate in the race to the bottom - a race to the bottom it is.
IMO the only way to fix it is a Time Machine. Every news paper linked here, or elsewhere, think they can sell me a subscription just because I followed a link or two. I live in Norway, I’m not going to subscribe to the New York Times just because they had an article I actually wanted to read.
It might not be perfect, but we need a system where journalists and media can be paid for creating quality content that people consume.
Not influencers who knows how to optimize the length of their YouTube videos to maximize income and minimize content.
If you removed the noise from the signal , the signal was very good. When twitter first started there was a great talk about finding survivors and infornation in an earthquake. it was a great tool for crowdsourcing event ands info. It later gave people closer access to companies and people. But, i do agree, there was a lot of noise. i hope the signal finds home on the fediverse with mastadon or whatever.
The problem was, and is, that Twitter was always a private for-profit company whose business model was tracking users and mining their private data. Yes, it could do good things, and in the hands of some of those opressive regimes it could do some bad things and in between it was built to do some skeezy things because that was how they attracted the venture capital.
Not to mention it was never innovative in what it was offering, there were and are many different avenues to connect people (that is the fundamental feature of the internet) it just created a platform that became popular for various reasons. Earthquake victims and rescuers, anti-government protestors and so on could always use Signal or another app for talking to each other - and should.
One of the real impacts of the cancer of Twitter came when journalists reached a critical mass and decided if something was tweeted about it counted as a primary source and they could write an article about it without having to get out of their chair. It was always lazy journalism and often totally irresponsible journalism and it’s no coincidence that the apex of Twitter journalism was the rise of an orange demented sociopathic rapist. All of which was part of the promise of a service that sold views and news by secret algorithm and cash.
I’ve worked in FinTech for a while and it’s one of those things that seems simple from the outside, but it’s fraught with complexity when you get to the details. Good luck Elon.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org
Rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Nice illustration, whoever design these is doing a good job.
We thank Elon for his effort in getting people to the fediverse 🙏🙏
The question is do we actually want everyone from twitter to be here?
I don’t even want the people that are here to be here
People here are mostly cool, But it does feel like more and more of the obnoxious redditors are discovering this place.
Make use of your blocks early, folks
Yeah I can’t tell if the internet is just a pedantic place or if it’s the same people that made reddit insufferable coming here.
I know I just described the same thing…
This guy obnoxiouses.
Wait, no, that’s not right.
Uh, instructions unclear, dick stuck in Reddit? How’s that?
All you need to do is just post THIS
THIS
Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger.
We’re happy to serve 🙃
Hey! I resemble that remark!
You seem pretty cool actually.
Chad mindset
If the instances properly moderate according to their rules and ban rule-breakers, then yes.
The toxic users will coagulate into isolated instances instead
I was seriously considering twitter an option when he bought it, but thanks to his effort I am all in Fediverse.
I was never big on Twitter, I’m here thanks to Spez.
As much as I agree with the author, I’m also skeptical to bet against Musk.
On the other hand, Twitter is a mess he got himself into - not a project he actually pursued.
With that in mind I’ll give him (a very generous) 20-30% chance that X lives on to actually be a somewhat relevant platform of sorts and hasn’t gone belly up within the next two years.
Mostly because of the gravity Twitter had and the following that Musk has, not because the ideas seem like sound business concepts.
Elon is doing more than most to showcase the failures of our systems and the downsides of billionaires
Thank you, comrade Elon
Slightly misleading title. He failed at renaming Paypal to X last time. So this time he was technically successful in what failed last time.
Task failed successfully.
He’s stated he wants to make it in to an “everything” app/web sight, which to me implies a payment method, and given his attempt to cultivate crypto fans, I think it’s safe to say, he is in fact trying again to make “X” as a payment method work, I suppose he figures the issue last time was a shortage of mass adoption, and with twitters built in user base that’s less an issue now.
Obviously, there are to many glaring issues in this to count, but when has that ever bothered him?
i’d never noticed how much the twitter logo looks like an upside-down sonic the hedgehog
Associated with Twitter? No wonder why Tails was always superior.
i was always a fan of cream the rabbit, myself
(mostly because i’m immature enough that the name makes me laugh)
Just in time for Sonics 30’th anniversary!
Sonic’s 30th anniversary was in 2021.
Correct but why stop celebrating, Sega haven’t.
Sega’s had a hard enough time. Let them enjoy.
They could make it all up by re-releasing the Dreamcast and putting the original PSO servers online.
Most mention of it has disappeared by now due to linkrot, but there was that sale of refurbs from spare parts back in the mid 2000’s: https://www.engadget.com/2005-12-13-sega-not-re-launching-dreamcast-only-selling-refurbs.html
Give it another year or two, as new mini boards come out and things get back to normal-ish. Evidently, as recently as last year they were saying production costs would still be too high: https://www.destructoid.com/sega-saturn-mini-dreamcast-mini-mega-drive-mini-2-famitsu-interview-retro/
Seriously, they screwed themselves with bad decisons.
gotta fail fast
“Have a nice fall you stupid bitch” -Sonic, 2005
X the Eliminator
Both in name, and in competence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKM-HrwT51A
Attorney at laaaaaawwwwwwwwww
MySpaceX
@Greenpepper I actually appreciate how Musk ruined Twitter. I was never fan of that service anyway. That means alternatives have a chance to grow. :-) Thank you Elon.
Interacting with someone famous was very cool. Asking a musician what something means and getting a reply and then a little back and forth… Twitter was an amazing thing for awhile.
Twitter’s effect on politics at least in the UK has been pretty negative in my opinion, it drives journalists towards short-form hot takes rather than journalism.
Advertisement has ruined journalism. Click-bait and light weight articles that lure people in to see as many ads as they can possibly cram between the lines and around the article, before they sell your reading patterns and digital fingerprint to the highest bidder.
Put words like Elon or Tesla in a headline and you get more clicks than if you didn’t. Bait the headline so people get curious and click in.
Make sure that you fill the top half of the page with generic text and copy-pasta so that you can show a few more ads before you actually come to the point of the article.
Use some AI to generate extra fluffiness or automate writing of sports and finance articles.
Social media certainly didn’t help, but when almost every news outlet wants to participate in the race to the bottom - a race to the bottom it is.
IMO the only way to fix it is a Time Machine. Every news paper linked here, or elsewhere, think they can sell me a subscription just because I followed a link or two. I live in Norway, I’m not going to subscribe to the New York Times just because they had an article I actually wanted to read.
It might not be perfect, but we need a system where journalists and media can be paid for creating quality content that people consume.
Not influencers who knows how to optimize the length of their YouTube videos to maximize income and minimize content.
Real deep journalism is dying. It’s a shame.
Right. “Bumper sticker politics”
I’ve heard very few good ideas which can fit into 160 characters.
If you removed the noise from the signal , the signal was very good. When twitter first started there was a great talk about finding survivors and infornation in an earthquake. it was a great tool for crowdsourcing event ands info. It later gave people closer access to companies and people. But, i do agree, there was a lot of noise. i hope the signal finds home on the fediverse with mastadon or whatever.
The problem was, and is, that Twitter was always a private for-profit company whose business model was tracking users and mining their private data. Yes, it could do good things, and in the hands of some of those opressive regimes it could do some bad things and in between it was built to do some skeezy things because that was how they attracted the venture capital.
Not to mention it was never innovative in what it was offering, there were and are many different avenues to connect people (that is the fundamental feature of the internet) it just created a platform that became popular for various reasons. Earthquake victims and rescuers, anti-government protestors and so on could always use Signal or another app for talking to each other - and should.
One of the real impacts of the cancer of Twitter came when journalists reached a critical mass and decided if something was tweeted about it counted as a primary source and they could write an article about it without having to get out of their chair. It was always lazy journalism and often totally irresponsible journalism and it’s no coincidence that the apex of Twitter journalism was the rise of an orange demented sociopathic rapist. All of which was part of the promise of a service that sold views and news by secret algorithm and cash.
I’ve worked in FinTech for a while and it’s one of those things that seems simple from the outside, but it’s fraught with complexity when you get to the details. Good luck Elon.