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New logo for Elon Musk’s social network strobes over San Francisco neighbourhood, prompting complaints and mobilising building inspectors

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[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 109 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why is everything Elon does, or by extension Twitter, newsworthy? I'm so sick of hearing about this fucker every day.

[–] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Because Twitter is something many people use and is part of our lives. The terms tweet and retweet is in our lexicon and a lot of breaking news appear on twitter. It's clearly important to us and as evidenced by Mastodon, Blue Sky, and Threads, we humans want a form of twitter. I agree and it has some utilitarian use. There's something "internety" about short blips of info with quick vids if necessary that anyone can access.

It may not seem important, but with Google trying to push DRM browsing, their search algo shitting itself, reddit crapping itself, Youtube being Youtube, etc. the old internet as we knew it is dying. The old internet being the free one we knew that wasn't centralized, full of forums, and felt a different kind of alive. I think that's why the news for Twitter is important.

Now, do we need to know about the people complaining about the X sign? Maybe not, i kind of don't think so, but it is nice to have a record of it for future reference. It most likely didn't need to reach my all/local page but people upvoted it.

[–] chrischryse@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He wants attention cuz daddy no longer gives him it

[–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Is daddy what he calls Grimes?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because his daddy is giving it to his step-daughter.

[–] BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People down voting you don't know that Musks dad is fucking his now pregnant step sister that he raised (groomed) since she was a child.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

As I clicked to load comments, I thought to myself that there hasn't been a single article that presented anything he's done with Twitshit as positive. I wondered if that's bias or whether he's fucked up on every change. But you're right. I'm ready to stop hearing about it. It sucks when children are billionaires.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm really looking forward to having content filter options. I don't want to block technology or news, I just want to filter out anything that mentions Twitter, Elon, Musk, and quite a few other key words. I think connect for lemmy has this option, I just couldn't stand the UI.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you recommend in place of Connect?

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using jerboa until boost for lemmy comes out.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I just reinstalled it. Works great, and I can actually see my inbox!

[–] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The only thing he's ever really been good at is getting attention. And fair play to him - here we are talking about him