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[–] dinckelman 122 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I genuinely hope this platform burns to the ground.

I already lost all faith in it a long time ago, but kept my account to occasionally respond to a friend, or just look at feeds i don’t follow.

When he publicly reinstated fascists though, that was the last drop in the ocean of issues

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The moment Musk fired engineers, I removed my account. Then I watched Twitter integration fail for a few applications Ive worked on, and removed that login/access.

From there, I watched multiple services fail. Ive watched spam bots take over. I watched drama after drama, Musk demanding weird choices like his tweets get priority.

It's such a mess.

[–] Etterra 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'm surprised it lasted this long since Musky bought it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That just shows the strength of the Twitter brand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

and the people's inertia

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Never going to happen. His other companies are highly successful and private so he can always borrow money to from other companies to keep twitter afloat

[–] poplargrove 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If that's what he's doing, he still wont sink money into Twitter forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You are underestimating musks infantile need to show the world he's not a failure.

[–] Hugin 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tesla is not private. He borrowed a huge amount against his Tesla shares to buy twitter. That's one of the reasons he wanted that giant bonus. He needs the money to keep paying off the loans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

And it got approved so 🤷‍♂️