See, capitalism is good!
When it’s imploding on itself, that is.
Enshittification has collapse as its fourth phase, but we tend to forget that.
Capitalism seems Eternal and unbreakable, but they said the same thing about the divine right of kings.
Haha that comment reminded me of a scene from a recent Simpsons episode “The Serfsons”
See how the heads of rich people get the tallest pikes with the best view?
It’s so unfair.
I told you to lay off feudalism.
It’s the only system we know.
We have no choice about it, and therefore it’s the best.
Elon Musk is doing as much for the fediverse as Nutomic himself
There has got to he some other narrative going on here. Is there a super profitable way for him to declare x bankrupt or something?
Lol good point!
Then he will be like “I need $100billion to develop this everything-app that will be made compulsory by the state” or something. And the government wil just give it to him.
and call for his presidential run.
He fails on the “born in the US” hurdle, doesnt he? :p
I find it really difficult to believe there is any benefit to him buying and killing Twitter for billions of dollars. It would have to be extremely contrived and possibly a really well kept conspiracy.
Yeah at first it appears it was a major screw up but the screw ups keep coming so i wonder.
Even before Twitter was purchased it was in a really delicate balancing act of profitability. Any misstep that seemed slightly too much had advertisers and users leaving and the opposite meant Twitter couldn’t make a profit. Perhaps anyone purchasing Twitter would tip that scale with anything they tried, but Elon here instead of walking back his decisions when they don’t work keeps doubling down.
The benefit is controlling the public narrative. Think about it, how many news media companies get business from Twitter? And now he has the power to suppress their reach or to even kick them off the platform altogether.
I think people just don’t want to believe that the wealthy and powerful can be that stupid. But why not? Elon Musk was born into a wealthy family and then got super, super lucky during the .com boom. He can absolutely make stupid decisions.
Firefish is a way better experience than Mastodon, of course shares content; https://joinfirefish.org/
Thanks for posting this. It’s hard not to become the “but muh firefish” guy every time a thread like this pops up.
Solves nearly every complaint I’ve seen about the Mastodon interface, has features I haven’t even seen folks ask for (I like the “antennas” feature a lot), federated with Mastodon, and will guide you through importing everyone you follow or who follows you - literally migrating your Mastodon account over in just a couple clicks.
I’m not anti-Mastodon whatsoever, but for the folks who find it klunky, Firefish is the answer for sure.
I like the “antennas” feature a lot
For the uninitiated, Firefish’s antennae are saved searches, where you can specify lists of keywords and users and come back to them over and over again. It’s similar to Mastodon’s hashtag follow feature, only more flexible. Though, IIRC, it doesn’t add the search results to your home feed; it keeps them separate, and undiluted.
From an administrator’s point of view, Firefish’s Recommended timeline is super cool, and is similar to Akkoma’s ‘bubble’ feature. It lets you specify a list of other federated servers to display posts from, creating a kind of “super-local” timeline. It’s the kind of thing I’d love to see in Lemmy and kbin.
It looks pretty cool, but I can’t help but feel that a really catchy name for a service is important. I wish it weren’t true as it is such an insignificant aspect of an entire platform.
Either way I’m going to sign up and check it out.
Firefish is definitely a bit of an unfortunate rebranding. Though ‘Calckey’ wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire, as a name, either. But at the end of the day, we really need to learn to recontextualize fediverse plataforms as software that runs a service, not the service itself. They’re website engines that power social websites, not a social brand in and of themselves, kind of like how WordPress is a quasi-static website suite that is used for a huge number of blogs and quais-static websites.
No one shares something from, say, the TechCrunch website, or Time website, and goes “Hey, Iook what I found on WordPress!”
Firefish is nice but I’m yet to find a stable instance and also for some unfathomable reason you can’t follow hashtags. And the federation doesn’t really work properly, which is kinda important when 90% of the Fediverse is on Mastodon.
https://plasmatrap.com/ seems stable.
You can follow hashtags with antennas.
Federation should work just fine as far as I know.
You can follow hashtags with antennas.
Yeah well that’s great but I don’t want it in my antennae, I want them in my “timeline”. I don’t want to have to page over to antenna and select one every time I load/reload the service.
Elon didn’t say he would charge all the X/Twitter users. The media just made that up.
Good for Mastodon, though.
Elon didn’t say he would charge all the X/Twitter users.
What do you mean by that? He didn’t say he was definitely going to do so right now, but he proposed it with quite some degree of seriousness. I don’t intend to watch the whole video with Netanyahu to make sure what he said exactly, but all the articles I’ve seen are too detailed and explicit for it to be just an aside that the media blew out of proportion.
Seems like that’s what he said to me, a “monthly payment to use the platform”…am I reading it wrong?
Elon Musk says X, formerly known as Twitter, is considering having its users pay a “small monthly payment” to use the social media platform.
Musk did not elaborate on how much payment would be to use X, but said it would be a “small amount of money.”
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-x-twitter-monthly-payment/
