• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    • Brazil asked Elon to ban 7 fascist accounts spreading disinformation
    • Elon refused pretending it was a free speech issue even though he complied multiple times with similar requests from right wing govts

    Gotta say, this is new information to me. I’ve briefly looked at the stories and the banning of twitter, but I never realized this was entirely because Elon wouldn’t ban accounts as he does for right wing government.

    Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy.

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    He acts literally like a fucking toddler.

    Perhaps even a toddler in a tantrum.

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      Now that’s just kind of rude toward toddlers. He acts like what he is… a Ketamine addled, narcissistic billionaire, who got lucky in life and thinks he crafted his own destiny all by his own hands.

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        Fair enough, fair enough. Toddlers are way more pleasant than him, even when they’ve shat their pants. I apologise to all toddlers.

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        Ketamine is a dissociative which strips away what you know about things, sort of like how a child doesnt know things. So in a way, he’s actually a toddler.

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      Because Mastodon needs a reliable instance with a catchy domain name. Maybe even the slightest bit of advertising.

      Someone reputable could make a real Twitter competitor for about $2m a year these days.

      I’d say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI. Genius.

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      Mastodon has serious UX problems that even other federated networks don’t have. I’m pretty well tech literate and love Lemmy, for instance, but I just couldn’t ever get Mastodon to stick for me, like it just didn’t have the right feel and wasn’t fun to use. And if it’s not working for me then it’s never going to take off with a more general audience.

      Bluesky is a lot better. It still has some issues that I feel keep it from fully replacing Twitter, especially Twitter before Elon screwed it up. But it does manage to keep me checking it, even though it’s probably only once or twice a week max.

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        Why replace horrible company with bad company run by literally THE guy that let the prior company become horrible instead of replacing it with good non-profit network?

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    This is a hint at why he wanted involvement in PayPal and wants X to be a financial service. You can’t take away money from a system he controls.

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    As long as the general public only hears the first half of the story, it’s good marketing