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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldOh Elon
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    2 days ago

    Well, it’s not really snowballing. That would suggest they gained users since elon bought it. They were all there, they just refuse to leave.

    And it all starts with creating a different account. Either bluesky or mastodon. Still keep twitter, but create this other account. And use it.

    Now you have two accounts. And as people do this, mastodon and bluesky would face a moment where they realize that if they combined their activity, their usability would double.

    If bluesky and mastodon each had a few million users, and they both became part of the fediverse, and played nice with all fediverse platforms, then suddenly bluesky users could see mastodon posts, and lemmy posts, and pixelfed posts, and peertube posts.

    Same with mastodon.

    And now suddenly you have a usable alternative. And people can leave twitter, but they won’t leave twitter, like you said because all the content they want to consume is already there. And who produces content people want to see? Celebrities. Go check any celebrities page, they have millions of followers. Well if they started using the fediverse instead, all those millions of people have a reason to use mastodon, or bluesky as a secondary platform. And as time goes on, and more celebrities come with them, they bring their core audience.

    See my post in the fediverse community for my thoughts on that, and how everyone hates it.

    Everyone wants to take down google, and reddit, and twitter, but they don’t want “those people” coming here. They want this place to grow…but they don’t want normies and celebrities here.

    No take stick, only throw.




  • I mean, he couldhave sold it…but he bought it for 43 BILLION dollars.

    Prior to the sale, twitter was losing money. It had never been profitable. And it was NEVER worth 43 BILLION dollars.

    Sure, he could sell it for 30 million dollars, but what sense does that make?

    The fact of it is, he’ll likely never recover the costs he paid, because of the stupid high price he paid for a never profitable company.

    The part that baffles me is…why haven’t the userbase flooded outwards? If you’re on twitter today, and you’re not on bluesky/mastodon, you have nooooooooo right to complain that musk is supporting a facist agenda.

    He is. I’m not denying that. I’m just saying twitter users have no right to complain about it, because they enable it.







  • THIS is your big “You won’t believe what happened to me…” story???

    sigh

    When I was 14, I took the power cord for the original PS1 and shaved the rubber off the end until metal prongs were sticking out. Then I noticed if the outlet end was plugged in, and you touched the metal prongs on the other end, you couldn’t drop it. It would electricute you, but it would also stick to your skin for 5-10 seconds as it electricuted you.

    So being a 14 year old male, I did the only logical thing. I put it on my penis.

    It was quite shocking!


  • And he keeps losing. That’s my point. If he were dead, they might find someone who would/could actually win. Because let’s face it, Harris isn’t exactly everybodies first choice. She was kind of the only thing left once it became blatantly clear that Biden wasn’t going to be the 2024 nominee.

    So, if trump is alive, trump runs, democrats win. That makes trump more useful alive than dead.

    But I don’t think putin/GOP would be stupid enough to run him a 4th time.


  • I’m at a point where I think he’s more useful alive than dead. I feel like he’s ALREADY going to lose 2024. I’m a little baffled that it’s even a close race at all, but I’m still confident that between the debate, and the Taylor Swift endorsement he’s dug his own grave. And with that, it means he lost 2020 election, and the 2024 election. Would the GOP really endorse a 2X loser in 2028?

    I think him being alive forces them to support their own self made loser. And now even fox news is calling him a loser.

    He likes to say things like “they’re laughing at us!”

    No. They’re laughing at YOU trump. You are a laughing stock. Not the country. Not the democrats. Not anybody else but you. You are a loser, soon to be a two time loser, with two impeachments and 34 convictions. Nobody in American history loses bigger than you donald trump.



  • Right after his first assasination, there was a thread where someone said “If that happened to someone else, they’d probably have PTSD”.

    And I said “What makes you think he DOESN’T have PTSD after a bullet that was 100% intentionally fired at him, with the intention to kill him, narrowly missed because he just so happened to turn his head inches away from the path by total accident?”

    The general consensus was that trump can’t have ptsd because he’s a bad person who ruins others lives.

    And thats total bullshit. Not the part about him being a bad person, and ruining others lives. Thats still true. He IS a piece of shit who seperated families from their children, leaving them to bake, and sometimes die in metal boxes without water.

    The part thats bullshit is the idea that bad people can’t get ptsd because they’re bad people. I fully believe trump had/has ptsd, and this will only reignite it further.

    I hope he doesn’t become president. Harris is the best case scenario in every case except one. I fully believe that if trump becomes president, he’s going to make a much harder push for gun reform simply because for him personally it’s literally a life or death situation.

    If he becomes president, I would not be surprised if he tries to end gun ownership being legal.

    That being said, I don’t expect that plan to come to fruition. I fully expect it to fail because it would be a legal and logistical nightmare. But my point is on this one issue he would actually try. Whereas it’s not going to be a major issue for Harris.

    Harris will have many issues she’s trying to address, while trump, once again, will only thinking of himself. It just so happens that his one issue just so happens to benefit everyone. Not by design, but as a biproduct.

    That being said, it’s FAR more important for Harris to win. Many issues are more important than one.