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I like how you say “that uses” instead of “that uses it” because the former generally implies drug use.
Good point, best to leave it like that 🙃
Sadly we lost that fight to the other centralised platform in Bluesky
Anything that’s not Twitter is good
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.
My bet is on a scenario where Elon is going to ban people for using ‘cisgender’ term rather than downranking them.
Should just use his AI to turn all the negative comments into positive ones.
Problem solved 🙃
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.
Also spend at least two hours with each of his kids each day. Of course that add up to 24+ hours a day but that just shows you how amazing he is. He still finds time to be CEO of two companies, be involved in five others, and now help run the US government. It is amazing what you can do if you have 60+ hours everyday.
Elon Musk is a disgusting piece of shit.
Positivity Bot: Elon musk is a silly poop particle 😁
Flip you, you’re a silly sausage!
Before even reading the comments I predict it’s all negative and cynical because what ever Musk does needs to be opposed.
Maybe the people here feel personally threatened because negativity is all you have to offer.
Ah, so he’s going to stop posting there? Right?
Now that the election is over and we won, let’s remove our bots. - musk
Oh, c’mon, who’s going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.
I mean, he will on an alt.
Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active
No, bots are still needed for hating illegal immigrants.
Immigration hate causing backlash against H1Bs, abort, abort!
The bots are removed! All 9 users (8 of them are EM sockpuppets) celebrate!
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!
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.
It is all good now. Our elections are suddenly secure and our economy is great!
This is exactly what he means.
Next up the sanctioned daily hate.
A team? You mean ChatGPT?
…also yes.
He’s shutting down his account?
No he’s gonna ban anyone who disagrees with him.
That ain’t going to turn down the negativity though
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If there’s going to be fantasies about murder, can his whole posse go out?
It’d be great if they all got together for Jonestown 2.0.
Gotta catch that starship to Mars!
If someone were to poison the food at mar a lago, that person would have done more for this country than anybody else in the past 50 years.
This is a fantasy about suicide but… yes.
Wish I could know what this said before it was censored
Check out the mod log.
Just looked: regardless of your personal opinion the comment is a breach of the terms of posting. It essentially said Musk should permanently retire himself from life.
It said basically the equivalent of musk should piss on the 3rd rail. Mods arbitrarily removed my comment, probably because it included the phrase ‘kill himself’, while allowing these various replies that aren’t qualitatively different. Mods do need to feel important.
Esteemed fellows as regarded as they are do have to show a presence I guess. There are no good billionaires afterall
Lol. Free Speech guy!
A cisgender guy.
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free speech absolutist
Free speech abolitionist, more like.
my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.
Instead of “bad” you have to say “ungood” from now on.
Double plus ungood!
“Maybe if you tell me the bad news in a good way, it won’t sound so bad.”
The bad news in a good way. Yes, I can do that. The bad news in a good way. Well, here it goes…
Closing the shop will achieve that goal perfectly.
