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Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps...

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[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 114 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funny, knowing Elon, I assumed he would have gone with a whites only mode.

[–] Derproid@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What the fuck is wrong with you.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

I get that a lot.

[–] LazaroFilm@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

No, what the fuck is wrong with Elon‽

[–] Ganondorf@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing wrong with argulaZ. They are bothering to read news.

"Hate speech is soaring on Twitter under Elon Musk, report finds"

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[–] Rottcodd@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's like a 15 year old got ahold of his mom's credit card and bought a social media corporation, and now he's up in his room, all juiced up on Doritos and Mountain Dew, banging away at his keyboard and giggling to himself.

[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

mark is a robot, elon is a 15 year old, both wearing grown up suits! all signs point to yes tbh

[–] blivet@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking pretty much the same thing. He’s got the sensibility of a teenage boy. He thinks things like the letter X and the color black are totally cool, and he thinks naming his company “Space-Sex” and one of its spacecraft “Big Fuckin’ Rocket” is the height of humor.

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[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

His parents should have been a little firmer with him. "Young man, I don't want to see you on that computer until your comedy is at least at a Colbert level!"

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[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm dark mode everything, everywhere, but options are good and taking away options is bad. If people want to sear their retinas by using light mode, they should be able to.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use light mode because dark mode is far more likely to trigger migraines in me. This is legit an accessibility issue, and he fired the entire accessibility team.

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@stopthatgirl7 I also often use light mode on most websites. Since 2 years or so I started using dark mode on several applications or websites as well, but most dark modes suck. Some give me headache or burn my eyes.

Taking the option is really an accessibility issue. Elon tries every trick under the sun to destroy the platform, in ways I could not imagine or forgot. I'm sure there will pop up addons for browsers at least to change the style. Everyone else, good luck.

[–] Alaknar@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Try the "Dark Reader" plugin (works for all chromium-based browsers and Firefox - at least). It lets you customise the "darkness" of the dark mode to your hearts content. I have most of my sites set up so that they're more "very dark grey" rather than black.

Doesn't always work nicely, some sites get their images mangled, or the text will get a weird shade that makes it illegible, but overall, it's great. And you probably can fix most of these issues by tweaking the filter settings.

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[–] phi1997@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

The thing is, I don't think he's deliberately trying to destroy the birdsite. He's exhibiting the same mentality as the billionaire who got himself and a few others to die in a faulty submersible. He thinks he knows better than everyone but is completely out of touch from reality because his money usually shields him from consequences.

Elon Musk is just an idiot. A useful idiot to those who fund him like the Saudis, but an idiot all the same.

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[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah light mode doesn't work for me but why in the name of the gods would I want that to mean it's not an option for other people? Compulsory light mode is bad. Compulsory dark mode is bad. But Elon seems to have incredible trouble believing other people are a thing to model, let alone actually doing the modelling. It sucks, and I am sorrowful for people like you and thingsiplay for having the internet get less useful for you and having this dipshit providing a bad example for other people with too much power and too little wisdom.

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[–] phi1997@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, dark modes are hard on my eyes

[–] peter@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Someone please make a lemmy client with a word filtering option so I can stop hearing about elmo

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or just scroll past things you don’t want to read about? That is a very viable option.

[–] galaxies_collide@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not viable when every single post is about him.

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's plenty of communities on Lemmy that don't discuss Elon at all. Curate your own homefeed

[–] Zima@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

are there any communities that discuss technology advancements ? I can't find any sub for technology enthusiasts.

edit: ah gotcha you're just telling him to go away while trying to sound reasonable.

[–] Itty53@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You and the other guy both sound like you're whining that free content isn't being catered to your every taste for you when you have every tool at your disposal to curate your own content.

Y'all are entitled as shit.

[–] Zima@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might want to start paying more attention to what people say instead of focusing on how it makes you feel when you participate in an argument.

[–] Itty53@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I thought about it.

Y'all are entitled as shit.

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[–] crowsby@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can do you one better with a Tampermonkey script that will replace every reference to his name on every webpage to either "the biggest twat on the planet" or "this dipshit", depending on which works better syntactically.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Text Replace
// @version      0.1
// @description  Text Replace
// @author       SiameseDream
// @include     *
// @grant        none
// @namespace beepboop
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

var replaceArry = [
    [/ Elon Musk/gi,' the biggest twat on the planet'],
    [/Elon Musk/gi,'The biggest twat on the planet'],
    [/ Mr. Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
    [/ Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
    [/Mr. Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
    [/Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
    // etc.
];
var numTerms    = replaceArry.length;
var txtWalker   = document.createTreeWalker (
    document.body,
    NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
    {   acceptNode: function (node) {
            //-- Skip whitespace-only nodes
            if (node.nodeValue.trim() )
                return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;

            return NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP;
        }
    },
    false
);
var txtNode     = null;

while (txtNode  = txtWalker.nextNode () ) {
    var oldTxt  = txtNode.nodeValue;

    for (var J  = 0;  J < numTerms;  J++) {
        oldTxt  = oldTxt.replace (replaceArry[J][0], replaceArry[J][1]);
    }
    txtNode.nodeValue = oldTxt;
}
})();

In practice it looks like this

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why didn't you downvote this thread? In kbin I can see who downvoted it and you're not there.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beeshaw actually won't let you downvote. Has it's pros and cons

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[–] peter@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Because the downvote button isn't for what I personally don't want to see, it's for what isn't relevant. As much as I don't want to see this, it is technology

[–] lowdownfool@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Options that empower you:

  • Downvote button
  • Ignore button
  • Unsubscribe button
[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

... You are putting the responsibility on the victim?!

(/j)

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[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, can't wait until they ban the use of the letter 'e' for non-verified users and wii all hav to wrayt layk this

[–] curiosityLynx@kglitch.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Avoiding the letter E is already a creative writing style, except you don't hav to wrayt layk this. There's even a Mastodon instance dedicated to it and a funny writeup about what happened when they came across another mastodon instance where the letter E is the only allowed letter.

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[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago
[–] girl@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

surely this will save them

[–] wave_walnut@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I have a suggestion for him: wouldn't it be a development cost savings if Twitter just provided an API and users could see it on their own clients?

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

As if I needed any more reason to never use that garbage.

[–] mihies@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

He already backtracked because of public outrage, dark will be default, light will be an option, dim black (or whatever it was called) is no more. Like 15hrs later. Yet another clueless idiotic decision that backfired...

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