LOL on people who join social media and put "don't you dare follow me or reply to me or interact with me or I will block you" in their profile. #antisocialmedia
Elon Musk’s grandfather “believed that apartheid South Africa was destined to lead ‘White Christian Civilization’ in its fight against the ‘International Conspiracy’ of Jewish bankers and the ‘hordes of Coloured people’ they controlled.”
Damn, why didn’t Ashlee Vance or Walter Isaacson mention that part?
I'm thinking about Mastodon in a wide view, in the world of social media, this feels a little outsider, while at the same time it also feels like it might be the future. So, let's talk about it!
What do you get out of Mastodon?
Why are you here?
How has it compared with your other social media experiences?
What do you see for the future of Mastodon?
What do you want to see?
And basically anything else about it you want to say about Mastodon.
LET'S TALK!
Folks like @ZachWeinersmith say they have to be on eX-Twitter, even as it becomes a channel for really obvious, terrible evil, like its boss promoting actual Nazi propaganda.
Why? Twitter was never used by more than a few percent of people, and it has dropped, I hear, by more than half. Why makes you think it's so super-important? Sincere question.
@w7voa It also happened, before apartheid kid bought his $44 billion sandbox.
While there's very likely much broader use of these suppression tools to silence those, whose opinions dicktator Musk doesn't like, & which may guarantee him the drug & degree of attention, a histrionic personality like his usually & regularly needs.
Jesus Christ. Enough with the debate about being "cis". Elon Musk is a sociopathic wank stain. And yet people are debating whether "cis" is a word or whether or not it's a "slur".
Of course it's not a "slur". Just because Elon Musk thinks it's a slur to him does not make it so.
Stop giving that son-of-a-bitch credence and validation!
You are fucking playing into every one of those 4chan Twitter turds hands!
"A person with histrionic personality disorder may:
• Feel underappreciated or depressed when they’re not the center of attention.
• Have rapidly shifting and shallow emotions.
• Be dramatic and extremely emotionally expressive, even to the point of embarrassing friends and family in public.
• Have a “larger than life” presence.
• Be persistently charming and flirtatious.
• Be overly concerned with their physical appearance.
• Use their physical appearance to draw attention to themselves by wearing bright-colored clothing or revealing clothing.
• Act inappropriately sexual with most of the people they meet, even when they’re not sexually attracted to them.
• Speak dramatically and express strong opinions but with few facts or details to support their opinions.
• Be gullible and easily influenced by others, especially by the people they admire.
• Think that their relationships with others are closer than they usually are.
• Have difficulty maintaining relationships, often seeming fake or shallow in their interactions with others.
• Need instant gratification and become bored or frustrated very easily.
• Constantly seek reassurance or approval."
I feel like even the people who dislike Musk are putting too much stock into the genius supervillain narrative. It's highly unlikely he's slowly executing some pre-thought out plan to shift Twitter far right. He's a naïve socially-inept billionaire manchild who got radicalized by a bunch of alt-right grifters. It's as simple as that. No master plan, no 4d chess, just someone who never underwent any real emotional development.
@malwaretech Right! The dumb-richest misgrown vulture in 2023 history will boost & abuse anything not nailed down to try to attract attention to himself.
Summary: Twitter users are now Musk's mom & dad he'll punish for leaving him alone.
"This "leading source of breaking news" with Twitter Blue subscription consistently tweets misinformation disguised as breaking news with no sources and zero evidence.
Look at the engagements for these made up stories."
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@SrRochardBunson Putin's Russian disinfo farms, proudly verified by Elon Musk.
It needs to be repeated, how disgraceful it is, that governments of the free world are still keeping their accounts running on Musk's compromised, corrupt, extremism-, mis- & disinformation-promoting subversive antisocial medium.
None of the investors in Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Jack's mal- & spyware medium is a supporter of democracy.
The birdsite is thus officially a dictatorial/totalitarian/authoritarian messaging platform adversely opposed to the norms, values, rules & laws of the United States, the European Union & the whole free world.
@mastodonmigration Reminder: Shadowbans are not Eloon's invention. They were widely applied, when Jack Dorsey still owned the birdsite.
And AFAIK it's not confirmed, that Dorsey's new corporate medium will not apply the same manipulative practices, that he approved on twitter.