• argon@infosec.pub
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    11 months ago

    He is taking zero responsibility. I wonder if he is even capable of understanding that this is all the direct consequences of his actions. Or maybe he is just deflecting. But this is all happening because of you, dumbfuck. You did this. Ten years ago he was getting Iron Man cameos and Star Trek writers thought he some kind of religious figure. Then he went down some right wing freakout wormhole and he drank that kool aid down to the last drop. You did this. No one owes you their advertising dollars. You bought a company that had reach and influence and a huge ass userbase and you fucked it all up. Enjoy your edgy memes and your ruined company.

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          The double spaces between sentences. Tbh, it is kinda nice for readability.

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            If you were taught on a typewriter, you double space for life. It’s impossible to stop once ingrained.

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            OK that doesn’t show here (Firefox on Linux), I actually copied the text into an editor, and searched for double spaces, and none were found.
            Tried another Browser Falkon which uses QtWebEngine, and there are no doublespaces there either.
            So apparently some browsers render Lemmy posts differently.

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              Browsers collapse whitespace unless told not to by the webpage CSS. I’m not using a browser though, I’m using Boost for Lemmy.

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            I really wish it would come back in style. I hate the single space after a full stop, it feels inadequate.

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            11 months ago

            Huh, I thought Markdown basically just ignored all extra whitespace

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        11 months ago

        I just do it automatically. Thanks to my typing class in junior high in the 90’s. I’m guessing most people on the internet don’t do it? It’s never even crossed my mind that it might be unusual these days.

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          11 months ago

          I’m guessing most people on the internet don’t do it?

          Definitely not 😁 But that’s cool, you stand out from the crowd. For us who use an app to browse Lemmy, at least.

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      11 months ago

      Alternative conspiracy theory, he got paid to do that, as twitter even with all the bad things was a political tool against fascism and misinformation.

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        11 months ago

        Maybe, but I do think he’s dumb and egotistical enough to lack self awareness.

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          He was backed by the Saudis. This money is nothing to them. They win if Twitter profits, they win if Twitter burns. I don’t thing they care.

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        Is he getting paid enough to recoup the 44 billion he blew on twitter?

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          Once you’re that rich, the currency is favours and influence, not just money. He got in out of his depth, then got helped out by some big backers. What they offered him, in the backroom deal, I’ve no clue.

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        Frankly there is no alternate conspiracy that can make this make sense. Even if the point is destroying Twitter, why does he have to be the one to personally take the reputation hit? He could downright hire some celebrity CEO to say and do all the shit he wants done, get all the flak while he relaxes on a yacht. There may or may not be backroom deals but he’s still being a chump for exposing himself like that. His business are taking hits because he’s seen as increasingly unreliable.

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          Even if he loses al his companies he still has money to live on that yacht for the rest of his life,(doubt it as USA is practically funding him), he is a narcissist he wants the attention, he wants people talking about him.

          But any guess is as good as mine, maybe he is the Manchurian candidate maybe not.

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      Twitter has roughly 240 million daily users, about half of whom are from USA. It might be a bit early to call it a ruined company.

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        By comparison Lemmy has 30,000 active users and steadily dropping.

        It’s actually pretty funny how much of an echo chamber Lemmy can be. All I see is positive comments about how Lemmy is so great and growing, and Twitter is dead! Meanwhile it’s the opposite. Twitter is still very much alive, and Lemmy is becoming a small cul-de-sac echo chamber.

        My Lemmy app lets me tag people, which I use to tag people who are rude to others, nice to me, helpful, racist, etc, just so I can remember who was nice and who wasn’t nice to interact with, and I literally see the same handful of people in every thread, and the front page of “everything” is filled with the same people making every thread.

        Same with Reddit. We all thought Reddit was dead, and, well… it isn’t. Some days I really regret getting IP banned for shilling out Lemmy. Plenty of communities I really miss from Reddit that just simply won’t work on Lemmy, because of how Lemmy is so FOSS centric.