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God I really hope we get the Good Ending: Musk kills Twitter and loses $44B in the process.

by ForHackernews 4y ago

gjsman-1000 4y ago
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- whateveracct 4y ago
  Tumblr is thriving btw Most HNers wouldn't survive there though
  - jemmyw 4y ago
    By survive do you mean they actually kill people or technically minded folk would leave because it's shite? I just went there out of interest and it didn't look great. Scrolled down, got annoying pop-up, left.
    - whateveracct 4y ago
      Tumblr requires a certain amount of tribal knowledge to get value out of. The site is newbie hostile almost on purpose. Doesn't affect me or all the people happily using it over all the SV alternatives though. It's not a site whose value can be judged in 5 min of viewing.
    - whateveracct 4y ago
      Also I said thrive For instance, if you wanna be in the know about your favorite band's tour, tumblr is probably the best place to do it (even better than twitter due to the quality of discussion). It's the closest thing to the fan forums of old we have in the social media era.
- ViViDboarder 4y ago
  Was this sarcastic? I’ve literally abandoned or avoided all those products as well. I don’t want to support abusive companies or exploit user privacy.
- deleted 4y ago
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- fragmede 4y ago
  Don't forget HN, which was started by noted venture capitalist, Paul Graham.
- throwawayo2022 4y ago
  i dont use any of those for similar reasons. you can have life without it TBH
- zimpenfish 4y ago
  > one that has been strangled at the neck by Apple and sold in a fire-sale to WordPress developers (Tumblr) Again, the porn ban at Tumblr was already in the works months before Apple delisted the app over CSAM issues - that just accelerated the implementation.
s_ting765 4y ago
Or he makes Twitter better (it sucks so much worse now) and everyone gets to enjoy it for free.
- sofixa 4y ago
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  - luxuryballs 4y ago
    it’s been not even an entire business day, I am not surprised when the narrative has been “oh no Elon Musk is going to remove all censorship on Twitter!” that people started posting garbage trying to test this exact theory, let’s give it some time to actually play out, this “death spiral” stuff just sounds like more fake news
    - inferiorhuman 4y ago
      Today, Musk himself tweeted conspiracy theories about Nancy Pelosi's husband after the attempted assassination. The fish rots from the head down.
      - bruiseralmighty 4y ago
        > attempted assassination That "Where's Nancy?" line comes from the report of a single police officer on scene, none of the others heard it. We don't have the cam footage or sound from the PD or the Pelosi residence yet. When CNN reported that (and they are the only ones who have done so, everyone else is regurgitating their report), they were trying to make political hay out of the situation. Paul Pelosi refers to the assailant as 'friend' to the 911 dispatcher. Perhaps that was coded language to protect himself, but we do not know. We do know that the attack on Paul Pelosi occurred in front of police after they arrived. It is simply too early to know for sure what the motivations or intentions were of either Paul Pelosi or David Depape that morning.
        4y ago

God I really hope we get the Good Ending: Musk kills Twitter and loses $44B in the process.

gjsman-1000 4y ago

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whateveracct 4y ago
Tumblr is thriving btw Most HNers wouldn't survive there though
- jemmyw 4y ago
  By survive do you mean they actually kill people or technically minded folk would leave because it's shite? I just went there out of interest and it didn't look great. Scrolled down, got annoying pop-up, left.
  - whateveracct 4y ago
    Tumblr requires a certain amount of tribal knowledge to get value out of. The site is newbie hostile almost on purpose. Doesn't affect me or all the people happily using it over all the SV alternatives though. It's not a site whose value can be judged in 5 min of viewing.
  - whateveracct 4y ago
    Also I said thrive For instance, if you wanna be in the know about your favorite band's tour, tumblr is probably the best place to do it (even better than twitter due to the quality of discussion). It's the closest thing to the fan forums of old we have in the social media era.
ViViDboarder 4y ago
Was this sarcastic? I’ve literally abandoned or avoided all those products as well. I don’t want to support abusive companies or exploit user privacy.
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fragmede 4y ago
Don't forget HN, which was started by noted venture capitalist, Paul Graham.
throwawayo2022 4y ago
i dont use any of those for similar reasons. you can have life without it TBH
zimpenfish 4y ago
> one that has been strangled at the neck by Apple and sold in a fire-sale to WordPress developers (Tumblr) Again, the porn ban at Tumblr was already in the works months before Apple delisted the app over CSAM issues - that just accelerated the implementation.

s_ting765 4y ago

Or he makes Twitter better (it sucks so much worse now) and everyone gets to enjoy it for free.

sofixa 4y ago
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- luxuryballs 4y ago
  it’s been not even an entire business day, I am not surprised when the narrative has been “oh no Elon Musk is going to remove all censorship on Twitter!” that people started posting garbage trying to test this exact theory, let’s give it some time to actually play out, this “death spiral” stuff just sounds like more fake news
  - inferiorhuman 4y ago
    Today, Musk himself tweeted conspiracy theories about Nancy Pelosi's husband after the attempted assassination. The fish rots from the head down.
    - bruiseralmighty 4y ago
      > attempted assassination That "Where's Nancy?" line comes from the report of a single police officer on scene, none of the others heard it. We don't have the cam footage or sound from the PD or the Pelosi residence yet. When CNN reported that (and they are the only ones who have done so, everyone else is regurgitating their report), they were trying to make political hay out of the situation. Paul Pelosi refers to the assailant as 'friend' to the 911 dispatcher. Perhaps that was coded language to protect himself, but we do not know. We do know that the attack on Paul Pelosi occurred in front of police after they arrived. It is simply too early to know for sure what the motivations or intentions were of either Paul Pelosi or David Depape that morning.
      - 4y ago