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[–] cmlael67@lemmy.world 1 points 47 seconds ago

That would explain the uptick in idiocy on Threads.

[–] SoloCritical@lemm.ee 7 points 1 hour ago

“Dozens I tell you! Dozens!”

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago

He did the DOGE on his twitter minions.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

Lucky bastards.

[–] NotAGamer@lemmy.org 11 points 5 hours ago

I would be devastated but I don't and never have used xitter.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 hours ago

xAI bought X right? So maybe they can run it on all of those servers xAI is illegally powering with unapproved generators.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 18 points 7 hours ago

Oh no! Anyway…

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago

No one cares

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 92 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This is so frustrating!!!

Temporarily???

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The whole site has been in disrepair for the past 3 years, and with all the breaches and issues lately, this downtime included, you can see the result clearly.

If it makes you guys feel even better, just know that such failure to maintain software for so long, mostly complex and widely used like Xitter, means that it won't get fixed easily at all. The knots are everywhere and will require even more time to untangle. Musk destroys everything he touches and I am at least happy about "this" one.

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Who even uses this scumbags platform

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

Scumbag owned platform for scumbags.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I find the nazis fascinating for their ability to co-opt symbols like the swastika. Could you imagine that happening today? Taking, for instance, the peace sign, punisher symbol, or Gadsden flag and turning them into quiet hate symbols?

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

Any symbol they would have chosen would have ended up as the Nazi symbol. Just like the name Hitler or that specific mustache style.

But the swastika specifically ending as the symbol you can mostly thank to Heinrich Schliemann and Émile-Louis Burnouf finding swastika adorned pottery at a Troy excavation in the 1870's, and declaring them to be the ancient symbols of the Aryans. https://humanjourney.us/language/external-symbols/swastika-the-hidden-power-of-a-symbol/

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

The cross/crucifix is quickly becoming a hate symbol. (If it wasn't already)

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, what did they do to the peace sign? Also, what about the hand signal?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

They tried to get it for a minute after the okay hand sign. Succeeded for a bit before it was relinquished

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Tens of thousands of users? Or tens of thousands of bots?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 12 points 10 hours ago

The only thing I don’t like about this is the word “temporarily”. Oh well.

[–] Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, no. What a tragedy! Call Trump. Send cavalry. Hide kids! Twitter is down!!!

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Musk will arrive on site any time now, and fix all of it with his chainsaw.
He just needs an extra dose of his meds first.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 13 points 11 hours ago

impressive. but i bet they can't go down for a whole forever

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 points 10 hours ago
[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

And nothing of value to humanity was lost.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

honestly i think this is way overdue seeing how elon gutted the twitter team.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Sweaty, stank-ass armpit if the internet. In a trench, doused in gasoline and set ablaze is the only outcome I will accept.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

Why are there still 10s of any users on that hellwash of a platform?

[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

lol vegeta posted this xD

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago
[–] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

it would be amusing to bring back the fail whale

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Oh gosh, I am so sorry, nevermind.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 0 points 10 hours ago

This is news?