Elmo is currently boosting for Vivek Ramaswamy, so in Loser Donald’s mind he’s VERY DISLOYAL! and KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT “TRUMP”, so he won’t be coming back unless Elmo repents and pledges his undying fealty to him.
Also, Trump presents himself as the “creator” of TruthSocial. So returning to Twitter would be an admission that Twitter is better than something he created, which his pathological narcissism could never tolerate. All he needs is the ability to bloviate while sitting on one of his gilded toilets and having the media quote him, and TruthSocial is just fine for that.
I think that this is definately it, particularly as the number of advertisers dwindle. If there are thousands of advertisers there isn’t a whole lot of incentive to block, say Safeway, You don’t get that many Safeway ads and if you block them they will just get replaced on your feed by some other company. But if there are only a few dozen advertisers and all of them are for gold coins, penis enlargers and crypto currencies. Then there is an incentive to block the penis enlargement company that sends the same ad up on your feed twice a day. If everyone blocks all of the advertisers then twitter is doomed (or at least more doomed than it currently is).
But Elmo fixed the bot issue! That was his first priority after taking over!
Fake news!
/s
Cory Doctorow gets a lot of buzz and he deserves even more.
Cory is not on Bluesky and he’s not on threads:
Look, I’m done. I poured years and endless hours into establishing myself on walled garden services administered with varying degrees of competence and benevolence, only to have those services use my own sunk costs to trap me within their silos even as they siphoned value from my side of the ledger to their own.
It’s not just that tech bros are bastards:
That’s why you can’t depend upon big tech to protect its uses. Talk is cheap: what you need is pre-committment. Something like the Creative Commons license, or in this case a federated service.
Cory:
Enshittification isn’t merely the result of greed or foolishness — it is the inevitable consequence of a captive userbase.
So put some thought into what you want to do with your downtime. It’s your dance.
Unless each and every user of the app has the admin access to the system (which is clearly absurd), that’s not consistent with the statement that the app has to include blocking ability.
The quality of the ads for me have improved since Elmo took over. I get more gizmos and toys. Not so lucrative for twitter, but best ad quality for me. I even bought one of the products via Amazon (though not by clicking the ad).
Worth listening to? Maybe, for some Qublicans, but voting for? Never. That party will never forgive America for voting in a half-Black person to the White House, so you know they’ll never actually vote into said domicile an all Brown person with (as they’re likely to say) “a hard to say/un-American name”.
lol
The thinnest of thin skinned men has reacted to catturd2 calling his block removal proposal dumb by… blocking catturd2
I don’t wanna be in the room when Elmo comes down this time.
Does this read as ‘You can’t quit me! I’m fired!’ to anyone else?
The irony of this is that that’s what Twitter used to be before Musk started destroying it. Anyone, whether a signed-up Twitter user or not, used to be able to visit people’s Twitter pages, see their tweets and replies, and anyone was able to search Twitter, by both trending and latest tweets. It was the foremost communication tool in the world and the place to go if you wanted to find out what an individual person, a company or government entity was saying, or just to find out what anyone was saying about a particular topic.
Now, if one is not signed up to “X”, one can’t do any of that - well, at time of writing one can visit someone’s “X” profile, but only to see their all-time most-popular tweets/“X’s”. It’s constantly changing - a few weeks ago, one couldn’t even visit a “X” profile without being logged in. One can no longer search “X” without being signed up to it.
Far from being “humanity’s collective consciousness” or “the group chat for Earth”, what was Twitter is now a gated community exclusively for X users. There’s a big hole in the internet where the universal communication hub that Twitter used to be once existed.
At this point I’m starting to wonder if there’s a single waking minute where Elon isn’t stoned out of his gourd.
IF Elon blocks you, does that mean you will never see his tweets? Because I’m not seeing a downside here.
He is really giving “being stoned” a bad name.
Fucking evil bastard.
(Perhaps taking the comments too literally): Yeah, whatever it is, I don’t feel it’s being stoned, as in cannabis. Those are some pretty aggressive tweets for a stoner. (Unless “stoner” is being used to describe any drug user. This feels more like amphetamines, coke, hell, even alcohol. Or, um, just being an asshole.)