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 2 years ago by admin@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
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DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 2 years ago
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
The problem with this narrative is that Musk lost money doing so.
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 2 years 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 2 years ago
He would have done good for the world if he would have just pulled the plug on day one.
Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 2 years 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 2 years ago
You think conspiracy theories in general sound reasonable, don’t you
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 years 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 2 years ago
Elon is a very odd duck, and not at all in a good way.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
What did he do that alienated them?
Mikufan@ani.social 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
With so many options becoming available, increasingly less people will select the platform preferred by Nazis.
Mikufan@ani.social 2 years 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 2 years ago
Twitter is for fascists & their sympathizers.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 2 years 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 2 years ago
If these services all start federating together
No one should federate with meta.
Mikufan@ani.social 2 years ago
Why use a platform that sounds like porn when you can just use one that is for porn?
humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Reddit’s also dying
Mikufan@ani.social 2 years ago
What is dieing? Digg is long dead.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 2 years 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 2 years ago
We need reddit active. It’s the final frontier of the containment zone.
Cosmocrat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years 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 2 years ago
Is it really a racket though? Most artists are not tech geeks and desire cultivated feeds instead of … none.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
All the artists are in cahoots with Elon Musk!
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2 years 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 2 years ago
No adults. That’s funny I consider kids to be the ones to he protected from hearing the wrong things.
spiderman@ani.social 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
He drove me back into using on RSS for staying up to date. Much better for the mental health.
dan@upvote.au 2 years 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 2 years ago
It’s built into Mastodon too
ULS@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
It’s morbid but the only use it has to me is info on live shitty events.
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Good.
Twitches@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Agreed, but, it makes meta stronger.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 years ago
174 million daily active users. Wake me up when it’s the same as mastodon.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
So at what point does/did it reach death spiral?
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Like when a US President was banned? Was that an example of those “big voices” leaving the platform?
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
But Lonnie said they’re doing great? /s
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
X will be dead any day now people! Any day now!
Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 years 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 2 years ago
Good.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
It seems Twitter isn’t the only one on the decline trend. Good job, burgerlanders.
MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
[deleted]stardust@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Same. I don’t want to make an account.
beefcat@beehaw.org 2 years ago
The elongated muskrat is learning first hand how the Nazi Bar Problem works
strawberry@kbin.run 2 years ago
excuse me but what the fuck is the nazi bat problem
Mint@lemmy.one 2 years 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 2 years ago
For reference:
upworthy.com/bartender-explains-why-he-swiftly-ki…
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 years ago
When you find a nazi but you can't find a bat.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
cbsnews.com/…/elon-musk-antisemitic-comments-x-po…