IBM, Lionsgate, the European Union, and, reportedly, Apple, have all pulled advertising from X following Elon Musk’s apparent endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Experts say it could soon get much worse.
    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Some people seem to bounce off Mastodon, saying that it doesn’t have the content that they were looking for. I’d suggest that it probably does have the content that you are looking for, but you can’t expect instantly see everything you are looking for from a fresh account.

      People have spent years building up their twitter feeds; finding the people they like to follow, and browsing for new things, getting recommendations, and removing they stuff they don’t like. You can’t expect to match that level of content 10 mins after signing up on Mastodon. You will have to look around and tell it what you want to see before it will be what you want it to be.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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        8 months ago

        The difference is that Twitter has suggestions and algorithms to help you find your way around. Mastodon is all manual.

  • blackbrook@mander.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Is that beard to make him look younger? Because it looks like that beard you sometimes see on young guys figuring out that they can’t really grow a decent beard…

    • Vant@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      They’ve known all along they just didn’t care until it threatened their own reputations. Musk really shit the bed this time.

    • s_s@lemmy.one
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      8 months ago

      Apple still has no problem pumping this to hundreds of millions of people through their app store for a 30% cut.

      Do they really care?

      Pull the app.

  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Hasn’t he blurted out stupid stuff his whole career without it causing any negative effects? Seems like that’s his thing and it seems like it’s been working for him pretty well. At least until now.

    • quo@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      I don’t think he’s ever said something this bad before.

      Blaming Jewish people by name, directly, without any dog whistles or implicit subtext is new.

      • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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        8 months ago

        Did it happen like that?

        Musk appeared to endorse an antisemitic post by user @breakingbaht alleging that “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” In response, Musk posted, “You have spoken the actual truth.”

        To me this sounds more like not properly thinking about it while doomscrolling Twitter. I think Musk is all about not thinking about what he’s doing.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      3 times, but he has to do it in front of a mirror. When he was about to do the third time he renamed it, thus resetting the counter.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    You think Saudi Arabia is just going to let their toy collapse? They shit the money it takes to run that site every day.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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      8 months ago

      Great. Let them continue to waste their money as they sink into irrelevance in a petrochemicals less dependent world.

      They should put that money into r&d and education instead. They won’t, though. They will build vanity projects.

      • evranch@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Starship launch tomorrow though, wouldn’t want to miss out on hype because of something titled “Elon Musk’s Starship Rocket” etc… I’m a big space nerd and while Elon is a dork this rocket will be a massive leap for everything space related if it works out.

        Fuck X/Twitter though, sick of hearing about it for sure. I’ve heard rumours that SpaceX only does as well as they do because they have Shotwell running the show and they have Elon wranglers to keep him away from anything important…

          • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
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            8 months ago

            You could filter out Twitter and realistically filter out a large chunk of them. Shit’s usually referred to “X, formerly known as Twitter…” in most posts I see.

            • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
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              8 months ago

              Could just make a lemmy-wide rule to always deadname it in post titles. But good luck with that since people still won’t put it all in enoughmuskspam.

              • evranch@lemmy.ca
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                8 months ago

                I got the exact same reply from someone last week, not exactly a discussion starter. So I was curious and sure enough it’s the same guy!

                However you did edit in some context here and indeed that’s the problem with trying to filter out a single letter keyword… Though I doubt Elon had the sense to do it intentionally.

                • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  I also quote Bartles & Jaymes on occasion.

                  edit: the funny part here is that I haven’t said “Thanks for sharing” that much, it’s fairly new. And I don’t remember usernames, so the fact you’ve gotten it twice already is special.