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[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 196 points 10 months ago

Ah, so he's going to stop posting there? Right?

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 162 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Now that the election is over and we won, let's remove our bots. - musk

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 63 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh, c'mon, who's going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

I mean, he will on an alt.

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[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago

Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active

[–] barlog@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, bots are still needed for hating illegal immigrants.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Immigration hate causing backlash against H1Bs, abort, abort!

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[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 103 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He’s shutting down his account?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No he's gonna ban anyone who disagrees with him.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

That ain't going to turn down the negativity though

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 98 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No no, guys, you're misunderstanding. He MEANS there's too much negativity from people saying things like "X sucks since musk bought twitter....."

He's going to change those people's tweets to say "X is great!"

And by that I mean he's going to have a team to edit tweets that he doesn't like!

If that's not free speech, then Musk doesn't know what is!

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

This is exactly what he means.

Next up the sanctioned daily hate.

[–] carl_the_grackle@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This has nothing to do with Twitters image. He could have enforced that decision sooner if it was. This is about Trump. The negativity was helpful during Bidens presidency. Now that Trump is about to take over everything has to look like the world is happy again. It's political manipulation.

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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

Free speech abolitionist, more like.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 62 points 10 months ago

my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 58 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Instead of “bad” you have to say “ungood” from now on.

[–] SDK@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Double plus ungood!

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Maybe if you tell me the bad news in a good way, it won't sound so bad."

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[–] vader8er@pawb.social 57 points 10 months ago
[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 32 points 10 months ago

A cisgender guy.

(This comment has been removed for violating X's policy on the use of derogatory slurs)

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

X/Twitter is a misinformation platform. If you know a major influencer that uses, consider informing and directing them to the ActivityPub alternatives and even consider advertising on their platforms if you can.

[–] exu@feditown.com 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sadly we lost that fight to the other centralised platform in Bluesky

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anything that’s not Twitter is good

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Blue sky (and just about anything else) is an improvement, but remember, there is no bottom, things can always be worse. Truth Social and Gab both still exist.

These websites, because they are all centralized, are all ultimately moderated in accordance with the whims of their owners, the effect of which was thrown into sharp relief after Apartheid Willy Wonka bought Twitter.

With a federated platform like Mastodon, no single owner would be able to do this. If an instance suddenly became terrible, they could be de-federated and they'd lose their reach.

Of course, if one instance became particularly large, the 'whims of the owner' problem would come right back, but at least the alternatives would still be readily available.

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[–] lig@lemmings.world 43 points 10 months ago

Closing the shop will achieve that goal perfectly.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought the whole point of being right wing was being negative?

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 months ago

He's such a fucking baby

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Right, he should remove the last few humans and replace them with bots.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

Incumbent wants everyone to talk about how great things are.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

More circus and bread. Classic move

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Big Macs, M4 Macbooks and AI Slop about the danger of woke to human civilization.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago

Project mayhem needs to take his balls

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Now that the election is over, he’s hiding the lightning rod.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 14 points 10 months ago

Don't want any Debbie-downers on Shitter once his bestie is in the big chair.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My bet is on a scenario where Elon is going to ban people for using 'cisgender' term rather than downranking them.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I mean in principle this is just a matter of moderation being different from censorship.

But really, an "algorithm tweak"? I am still wondering when or why who decided that we needed to have "algorithms" that someone could "tweak" on the Internet at all. The first kind of "social media" I ever used was web forums where the entire "algorithm" was thread bumping, and even if you insist that we need to have the structure of a microblog: Mastodon does fine without an "algorithm" beyond reverse-chronological sorting.

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[–] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

I'm curious whether Truth Social will acquire Xitter, or vice versa.

And when.

[–] Jinni@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Should just use his AI to turn all the negative comments into positive ones.

Problem solved 🙃

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Um, Elon Musk is a... brilliant man with lots of well thought-out, practical, ideas. He is insuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is above reproach.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is a disgusting piece of shit.

Positivity Bot: Elon musk is a silly poop particle 😁

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Yes, that town square needs to be happy. That's a happy democracy!

Mate, the bunting looks awfully like swastikas...

But happy, less negative swastikas, right?

Sure.

What an unserious human Musk is.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Reading the title I thought he'll retire.

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago

Now that his pick has won the election there’ll be no need for negativity now!

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First things first, the nah-seas were also good people? Is that Elong's message of hope?

Maybe he wants X to be more MAGA friendly? Like maybe just empty the swamp and replenish the swamp monster?

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

He wants to be more inclusive. More types of nazis.

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