Real talk, at this point it really just seems like a conscious effort at destroying the platform. Musk is definitely a fucking idiot, but there's no way even someone as unintelligent as he is would think this is a remotely "good" way to run a social media website.

I'm convinced now his goal was always to just destroy Twitter.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I'm not convinced. I think he's just really that dumb. I showed it to someone else who works in IT and their reaction was that it sounded like a lot of management they've worked with: people who have no idea under god how anything works and refuse to listen to why their idea is functionally terrible. Even if you swear up and down it will ruin the entire product, they want it done now, because they want it.

That seems perfectly in line with the kind of moron I've heard he is.

[–] OngoGablogian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I think you're dead on. Elon is trying to make Twitter work, but he doesn't understand it at all. He doesn't understand what they're commodifying, who their customers are, or why people use Twitter in the first place.

[–] Apokalyptikon@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

This sucks … seems that he can’t handle this

[–] Orbitrix@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

This is going to achieve Elon's goal but not for the reasons he thinks. It's going to continue making the site not worth scraping, no matter what the limits are. Rofl.

[–] smashesit@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Twitter is no longer free. Lol seems like a bad idea.

[–] Dav@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I reckon this is because of AI datasets, same with reddit. Suddenly having millions of authentic conversations logged is very valuble to companies training Large Laungage Models and the last thing these people want is that value being taken from them.

[–] AdventureSpoon@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can someone explain what is up with the constant "rule" thing in titles with people on this instance?

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's because it's an r/196 reboot.

r/196 used to be a subreddit with only one rule: that if you visited the subreddit, you had to post something before you left. Didn't matter what it was, but it's why their reiterations in the fediverse seem to much more active than anywhere else.

Whether adding "rule" to the title was a part of it, idk, but I think that part's just a meme habit

[–] Cloud_keeper@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

This is off topic for this post but the community 196 has a rule that if you visit it you must post. Thus the posts with the title "rule".

[–] AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Oops I destroyed one of the most media integrated forms of free speech. Dang what a mistake on my part.

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