He’s making X into a “whites only” platform. What de he expect?
Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts
Submitted 1 year ago by admin@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
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DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I remain convinced he’s killing it on purpose. I don’t know a plausible motive, but I guarantee it’s on purpose.
kubica@kbin.social 1 year ago
I used to think so too, but I don't know if he is also bad at that because it is taking him longer than I expected.
eveninghere@beehaw.org 1 year ago
The problem with this narrative is that Musk lost money doing so.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I agree he’s killing it on purpose. Something to do with information control. Him meeting so long at the Superbowl with Rupert Murdoch sure didn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Mikufan@ani.social 1 year ago
He would have done good for the world if he would have just pulled the plug on day one.
Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I thought that for a bit, but more and more I think it’s just extreme incompetence. Remember, he wanted X to be a thing for a long time, it’s telling that he wanted it to succeed in that he renamed Twitter to X.
NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 1 year ago
You think conspiracy theories in general sound reasonable, don’t you
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
When the only people I saw there were the leftest lefties I ever saw… then he just alienated all of them
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Elon is a very odd duck, and not at all in a good way.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What did he do that alienated them?
Mikufan@ani.social 1 year ago
Twitter was always a very strange place, i know that before musk it has been a super left woke bouble (woke in this case meaning intersectional world view)
Most people he unbanned didn’t actually come back either. Its just dieing all together.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
He’s making X into a “whites only” platform
Is there some evidence of this outrageous claim or it is just something that sounded cool in your head?
Grant_M@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
With so many options becoming available, increasingly less people will select the platform preferred by Nazis.
Mikufan@ani.social 1 year ago
Actual Nazis aren’t on Twitter, they have their own platforms nowadays.
Twitter is just becoming more and more toxic as its dieing.
Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 year ago
Twitter is for fascists & their sympathizers.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
My wife insists she’s staying there for the news and legal people she follows and she has a point. A lot of government, business, and schools continue to use it as an easy way to broadcast information.
Threads pulled off some celebrities, Bsky some policy and legal wonks, and Mastodon the tech geeks. If these services all start federating together and offering unified text and hashtag search, then where you land won’t matter.
Until then, it’ll be hard to get people to switch away, even with all the bad press.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 1 year ago
If these services all start federating together
No one should federate with meta.
Mikufan@ani.social 1 year ago
Why use a platform that sounds like porn when you can just use one that is for porn?
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Reddit’s also dying
Mikufan@ani.social 1 year ago
What is dieing? Digg is long dead.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I put a question up yesterday and got no engagement with it in like 12 hours. Maybe no one that knows anything is answering questions now. I guess we will see.
owen@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
We need reddit active. It’s the final frontier of the containment zone.
Cosmocrat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It’s a damn racket when most of the artists I enjoy only post on twatter. Just upload to mastodon too ffs!
breden@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Is it really a racket though? Most artists are not tech geeks and desire cultivated feeds instead of … none.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
All the artists are in cahoots with Elon Musk!
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
At this point Musk has platformed all of the undesirables of the internet. He’s a big, blinking, neon sign that says “there are no adults in the room, do whatever you want.”
That could be a service to the rest of us. It would be nice if, now that they’re all concentrated there, the internet could quietly agree to shadowban the entire site. Just disappear it from search results, conversation, “zeitgeist.” Let all of the toxic users keep each other busy while the rest of us enjoy a cleaner internet.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No adults. That’s funny I consider kids to be the ones to he protected from hearing the wrong things.
spiderman@ani.social 1 year ago
Well, he says X is a free speech platform when it clearly isn’t. Blud can’t even take a joke.
SolNine@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I never liked Twitter to begin with, once it became an unabashed environment for hate it was a piece of cake to close my account.
Tarte@kbin.social 1 year ago
He drove me back into using on RSS for staying up to date. Much better for the mental health.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
WordPress powers over 40% of the web, so that’s a very large number of sites/blogs that have RSS. WordPress has sites per category/tag too, so you can subscribe just to a subset of posts. For example, I’m subscribed to TheFlightDeal.com but just for flights from San Francisco (www.theflightdeal.com/category/…/feed/).
Manbart@beehaw.org 1 year ago
It’s built into Mastodon too
ULS@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
It’s morbid but the only use it has to me is info on live shitty events.
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I only follow specific youtubers and artists. If stray away from my specific feed, Twitter is too scary lol. I am at a loss for good social media though. It seems like most social media sites have just gotten worse over the past decade.
I guess there’s pros an cons to it all. Pro: less time wasted on social media Con: I’ve missed out on some information that is sometimes good to know.
storksforlegs@beehaw.org 1 year ago
At least thats kind of reassuring in a way, that part of it is people dont want to associate with that stuff. (Though I realize that isnt the only reason)
ulkesh@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Yes, this is what happens when you take a big shit in people’s cereal. They tend to leave. I, too, could be an analyst.
Zworf@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Yeah telling your advertising megacustomers to go F… themselves on TV and naming them explicitly. Wow. That’s some kind of nasty.
It totally proved Disney right, too.
PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Good.
Twitches@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Agreed, but, it makes meta stronger.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 year ago
174 million daily active users. Wake me up when it’s the same as mastodon.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
So at what point does/did it reach death spiral?
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year ago
When the “large” voices leave in significant numbers - in the UK it is used wildly by public sector and charity organisations, there are official governmental Twitter accounts, all the broadcasters have accounts.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Really wish I could convince local government entities to switch to Mastodon - my local police said it was “subject to O.P.R.A.” and needed to meet retention rules (if you rolled your own…), and the state wildfire commission said they were looking at Threads :/
So instead, both are still stuck on the platform that requires a login to see posts and filled with nazis.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Like when a US President was banned? Was that an example of those “big voices” leaving the platform?
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 1 year ago
There’s probably a sociology theory that would apply, but my guess would be a loss of 33% of active users over the course of 6 months.
Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 year ago
the death spiral is in progress, elon's just rich so he can pay bills (or let leases go resulting in eviction...) for a while
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 1 year ago
So at what point does/did it reach death spiral?
It isn't so much a spiral as it is a series of 90 degree turns.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
But Lonnie said they’re doing great? /s
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
X will be dead any day now people! Any day now!
Ilandar@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yeah people keep posting these articles and celebrating as if it’s not still a very relevant social media platform. I am concerned it will take so long to “die” that there might actually be time for a revival.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Good.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
It seems Twitter isn’t the only one on the decline trend. Good job, burgerlanders.
MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
[deleted]stardust@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Same. I don’t want to make an account.
beefcat@beehaw.org 1 year ago
The elongated muskrat is learning first hand how the Nazi Bar Problem works
strawberry@kbin.run 1 year ago
excuse me but what the fuck is the nazi bat problem
Mint@lemmy.one 1 year ago
You have a bar: Nazi comes into your bar, you let him stay, because why not its just a single nazi. Nazi invites friends, those friends invite their friends, and so on. Now you a have nazi bar.
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For reference:
upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-ki…
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 1 year ago
When you find a nazi but you can't find a bat.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Speaking of Nazis, are you able to provide any evidence whatsoever of Nazi activity on X?
Or is it more of a feeling you have?
gianni@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This was very easy to find, I’m sure there’s more.
npr.org/…/advertisers-leave-elon-musks-x-after-th…
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/…/674149/
beefcat@beehaw.org 1 year ago
cbsnews.com/…/elon-musk-antisemitic-comments-x-po…