Or even talking about shit like this? Musk is living rent free in a lot of people’s heads. The way to make him irrelevant is to treat him as such. Making a fuss about everything he says, gives him undue importance.
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carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Why the fuck is anyone still using Twitter
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 6 days ago
bassomitron@lemmy.world 6 days ago
To be fair, he’s commanding a ton of influence among policy makers, so it’s pretty critical to not completely ignore the bullshit he’s up to.
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 6 days ago
It’s one of those things where, while I’m sick of hearing about his bullshit, I need to know if he does something that directly affects me. E.g. if he started doing a similar thing in my country as the stuff he’s trying with Britain at the moment then I’d write to a couple of representatives to let them know they’ll lose mine and many other votes if they side with the dopey billionaire muppet.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Also because people like Musk are further empowered when no one is looking. I’m as tired of hearing about him as anyone but will keep reading until he’s in prison, dead, or at least not the de facto president of the united states.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah but are you not considering the thousands of other ideologues that work in the shadows everyday? Putting one on blast doesn’t solve anything. People have yet to grasp that the public forum can’t solve a multitude of problems all at once. If you put something in the public forum you should expect nothing to happen unless there is a system already in place to deal with it. What we should spend time talking about is solutions that can cascade into other solutions. Systems that can make other systems. We need to categorize our problems and put them in a queue to be reconciled. What have now is people just wildly jumping from one problem to the next as if identifying that problem was the most important thing and solving it is secondary.
It’s like when you watch Jon Oliver. It’s a good show but at the end of the episode all have is another insurmountable problem I now recognize and I file that away with every other insurmountable problem Jon has shed light on.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
So we should just not talk about his atrocities? Should we stay silent about the war in Gaza too? Because god forbid that Israeli war criminal is “living in my head rent-free”!
Musk will very soon be part of the American government, so of course we should talk about his authoritarian behaviours.
Naia_Elwyn@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Momentum.
The average person is really hard to move to a new platform. I saw this when Skype was the big thing for internet communication the Microsoft slowly made it worse and worse before it was barely a shadow of its former self.
Alternatives existed, many that were much better, but they were slightly harder to use or came along way after people were already set on Skype.
It wasn’t until discord that the internet shifted, but even discord has its problems.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 days ago
And FOMO. FOMO is super powerful. FOMO kept me on Reddit for way too long.
enbyecho@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What momentum?
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
like it or not goverment official accounts, and official news accounts are things some people care about and there are few platforms that have as many as Twitter or Facebook /meta.
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 6 days ago
Good write up, except Skype is a terrible example, because it never became worse. Arguably it’s better than any alternative. (Although I’d love to be wrong about this.)
kipo@lemm.ee 6 days ago
United States law enforcement agencies have the ability to eavesdrop on Skype conversations and to have access to Skype users’ geographic locations. In many cases, a simple request for information is sufficient, with no court approval needed. This ability was deliberately added by Microsoft for law enforcement agencies around the world after they purchased Skype in 2011.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security
Although I think Microsoft implemented end-to-end encryption for skype for single conversations at a time in 2018.
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 5 days ago
That’s fascinating and quite shitty. Unfortunately there’s no other communication service with comparable performance when it comes to screen and file sharing, which is what I care about.
homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 6 days ago
It was about the time they pushed the inclusion of banner ads in the application. Nobody left skype until advertisements were plastered all over it, even some with sound. Most of my gaming friends were early haters, as we’d been using Xfire and it served our primary purpose just fine.
lobut@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Politics, sports, musicians, celebrities, news …
Those are slow to move off if they are at all.
It’s a shame.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 6 days ago
mostly porn
Manalith@midwest.social 6 days ago
Must be everyone living in the states that block Pornhub.
adoxographer@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s not the states blocking ph, but ph blocking the states.
index@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Many answered you already but i’m gonna provide you with another piece of the puzzle. Why the fuck there always multiple threads about elon musk on lemmy frontpage? Propaganda and marketing runs deep.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 5 days ago
I set up a filter to block any post title with “Elon Musk” but stuff like this will still get through though. Lemmy is obsessed with him.
Master@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Elon musk butt stuff… you are missing out!
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 5 days ago
This better not awaken anything in me.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 5 days ago
Because I’m not interested in trading one echo chamber for another. Also, sports and music.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
few other platforms have ad much diversity in their hatred and negativity, community notes are funny, watching things slowly get worse is also interesting.
M137@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That misspelling kinda fits.
Scallops@ttrpg.network 8 hours ago
The thing about a cult is that it doesn’t need you in particular. It needs people. Ideally, idiots. So it doesn’t matter that a lot of people are leaving/will leave Twitter. The idiots will remain, and the platform will serve its purpose.