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Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I hope more people and businesses come to their senses and move to mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope the businesses who come do like the BBC and spin up their own server. I don't want them making accounts on places like Lemmy, like reddit, where someone is having their username taken away now for 'trademark infringement.' Username was "FoodNetwork."

The fact that reddit just letting business steal fucking usernames is god damned vile.

[–] MataVatnik 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Saw that post. It's seems since the 3rd party controversy Reddit accelerate it's decay into corporate existence. Still, it's going to take a while for it to die.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been back since. I can't say Reddit hasn't come up in Google searches that I've clicked on, but no commenting and no browsing around, and certainly no installing the app. Fuck these asshole rich dudes jerking us around. I don't need their bullshit websites.

Newsgroups and IRC were all I had back in the day and we got by just fine. Now let me go find an onion for my belt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Still applies with Duckduckgo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you share the context here?

[–] MataVatnik 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Which context? I was referring to Reddit taking usernames from longtime users to sell them to corporate channels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that! Is there a news story or more info about it? Crazy!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Problem is, advertisers likely do not want to go on mastodon because they can't advertise there

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

And that's a feature not a bug. A lot are waiting on how ad sales will play out on Threads I bet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Companies give a shit about giving us information. It's all about the advertising, so they will flock to the next closed-source company-controlled shithole.