EnXittification happening. Let’s hope the rest of the users finds their way to fediverse.
Ffs
Yes change the name and iconic logo of a huge corporation, that will go over great.
If he hadn’t demonstrated his incompetence earlier I’d think it was intentional.
I still think there’s a bit of intent to destroy the company but it’s kinda hard to tell.
There’s a woman over on Mastodon making the argument that he’s trying to destroy it so it can’t be used to organize left-leaning political action (fundraising, activism, issue messaging, etc) any longer. She makes a compelling argument.
I don’t buy that. He tried to cancel the purchase. He’s also losing money, and so it’s definitely not a 3D chess.
The issue with that argument is… Why? He is a business man, activism generally doesn’t effect him, tesla cars are generally liked by left leaning middle class, why would he spend so much money to destroy something?
His ex-wife did ask him to buy and kill Twitter:
“Can you buy Twitter and then delete it, please!? xx” Riley allegedly texted Musk on March 24. “America is going INSANE.”
🤷
I saw this article posted in another thread and it seems to explain a lot. Not sure how close it is to reality, but it looks like nostalgia is at least a partial reason for this change.
Yep. Fucking nostalgia.
That is a stupid name
It’ll be a nightmare to search
Gonna name my company “😃”
There’s a band I heard of called “:(“ and I’ve never been able to find it since
Wow, thanks! I’m not sure this is even them but it’s a band called :( so I’ll take it!
I’m opening up a rival called “social media.” Already, we’re on everyone’s lips, set to have a userbase spanning half the web.
If your goal is to reduce cost why would you waste money doing a rebrand… so dumb
I believe his main goal is turning Twitter into something of an “everything” site where he’s looking to combine the likes of Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Discord, and Venmo/Paypal into a single service. I don’t know if it was his goal when he bought it or if it has any chance in hell of working, but that’s something he at least said (while probably drunk) fairly recently.
so Twitter was vi then he turned it into edlin and now he wants it to be emacs.
“Arr, this ❌ marks where I buried 44 billion doubloons!”
STOP CLICKING ON THIS SHIT
Yea I’m just blocking this community. I’m tired of seeing this shit on my feed.
Just so you know, you don’t have to announce if you’re leaving a community. Just go. Nobody cares
I don’t know i think it would be kind of cool to have a herald yell out when we come and go, like the medieval times.
Alright I’m sold, I take back what I said.
Do we have Lemmy bots? Sounds like a cool idea for a really annoying bot haha.
HEAR YE HEAR YE, THE RIGHT AND HONORABLE SIR LORD JEMORGAN of LEMM.EE HAS DECLARED, ON THIS DAY THE 24TH OF JULY, THAT THEY ARE SOLD, AND TAKES BACK WHAT THEY SAID. LET US ALL APPLAUD THEIR OPEN MINDEDNESS.
THE LORD ALSO CARES TO INQUIRE ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF LEMMY BOTS AND THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE A COOL IDEA.
ALL HAIL JEMORGAN, MAY THEY LIVE LONG AND PROSPER
Well doesn’t that just make my pants a little tighter in a way that I’m 100% down for
Was Twitter ever really a left leaning platform in the first place? It pretty much always felt like it was filled with Russian bots and maga shit.
So I guess good job Musk for burning down a shit website? Lol
As a side note, Mastodon is legitimately fantastic. The community there is genuinely nice.
Guys, I’m starting to think this Elon guy isn’t as smart as he claims…
Depends.
If he thinks Twitter is irreperably dying, this may be a way, in which he can get out of repaying the loans he used to (partially) fund the buyout of twitter.
How does that get him out of the loans?
depends how the loans worked.
I was assuming his majority shares of X (ex Twitter) collateral.
And that that he could just go “yeah, go on, collect on your collateral, I don’t mind”, because it’s not worth anything anymore.But admittedly I have no Idea how the contracts were drawn up, if this is possible and if his other money would be available to collect on.
I saw rumors of this a few weeks ago but didn’t think anything of it. Is the domain changing too? Part of this the Comcast to Xfinity move, rebranding to drop association, I think. But Twitter’s brand wasn’t that bad so I don’t know.
x.com already redirects to twitter. I suspect that will be changed to the other way around soon enough (twitter redirecting to x)
