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"I don't like Elon Musk and it frustrates me that he managed to purchase Twitter even though everyone in my bubble told me it wouldn't happen and/or that the pr

"I don't like Elon Musk and it frustrates me that he managed to purchase Twitter even though everyone in my bubble told me it wouldn't happen and/or that the process of doing so would bankrupt him, and neither of those things ended up happening" optionally, additionally: "also I liked Twitter better when only celebrities and friends of people who worked at Twitter could be Verified, because I was one of those friends, and I was Verified just like the celebrities, but the unwashed masses weren't, and that made me feel important and good about myself, and now that said unwashed masses can pay a nominal fee to become Verified, and Twitter is phasing out the older, unpaid Verified accounts, I'm going to take my ball and leave, because feeling more important than most people was a chief reason for me to use the platform to begin with. now come join me in moving over to $NEW_SOCIAL_FEED_APP and follow me there—where, you'll notice, my profile once again has an exclusive Verified badge of some sort, setting me apart from you, the unwashed masses."

giraffe_lady 4y ago
I don't like elon musk and I do think it is bad that a rich person can buy an entire platform widely used for public discussion because they don't like how it's being used. You're having fun mocking it but I don't think there's anything particularly inconsistent or outrageous about this position. Musk is annoying and hangs out with shitty annoying people, now shitty annoying people are more prevalent on twitter. The changes he's made to timeline, presentation, letting the white nationalists back on make it actively worse for me, in ways it wasn't before. None of these are preposterous preferences my man.
- edgyquant 4y ago
  Maybe, but it was already owned by private individuals.
  - giraffe_lady 4y ago
    Do you think that's a useful insight here? My beef isn't with the nature of ownership, it's with the specific dynamics of this ownership. One single person is different from a group, and it being this specific individual is also highly relevant.
- adamrezich 4y ago
  > None of these are preposterous preferences my man. sure, but at some point you have to separate your preferences from your objective analysis of whether or not something is going to fail, if you're conducting yourself in a manner that demands any amount of respect at all. it's very childish and naïve to "predict" that something you don't like (anymore) "will fail", and scramble to come up with as many disparate reasons as to why this is surely, definitively the case, all ex post facto, just because you don't like it. there's plenty of things that I don't like in the world that show no signs of failure or implosion or whatever anywhere on the horizon—why would I "predict" their "failure", just because I don't like them? if this article (and others like it) was titled something like "Here's Why Twitter Should Fail: Ten Reasons I Don't Like It Or Elon Musk Very Much At All And Wish Both Of Them Would Just Go Away Forever", then, well, that would be a bit more honest, wouldn't it?
  - giraffe_lady 4y ago
    Oh, yeah I guess. I don't want twitter to fail I just don't want it to suck more than it has to.
mecha_ghidorah 4y ago
Nah the reason I want twitter to die is I hate twitter and I think it has been a blight upon mankind. It is a bad platform for everything expect announcements/being a pseudo RSS feed yet people insist on using it for discourse and it's fucking stupid. I also don't like Musk but I wanted twitter to die for years before he had anything to do with it. I'm just excited and hopeful that he may eventually kill it

giraffe_lady 4y ago

I don't like elon musk and I do think it is bad that a rich person can buy an entire platform widely used for public discussion because they don't like how it's being used. You're having fun mocking it but I don't think there's anything particularly inconsistent or outrageous about this position. Musk is annoying and hangs out with shitty annoying people, now shitty annoying people are more prevalent on twitter. The changes he's made to timeline, presentation, letting the white nationalists back on make it actively worse for me, in ways it wasn't before. None of these are preposterous preferences my man.

edgyquant 4y ago
Maybe, but it was already owned by private individuals.
- giraffe_lady 4y ago
  Do you think that's a useful insight here? My beef isn't with the nature of ownership, it's with the specific dynamics of this ownership. One single person is different from a group, and it being this specific individual is also highly relevant.
adamrezich 4y ago
> None of these are preposterous preferences my man. sure, but at some point you have to separate your preferences from your objective analysis of whether or not something is going to fail, if you're conducting yourself in a manner that demands any amount of respect at all. it's very childish and naïve to "predict" that something you don't like (anymore) "will fail", and scramble to come up with as many disparate reasons as to why this is surely, definitively the case, all ex post facto, just because you don't like it. there's plenty of things that I don't like in the world that show no signs of failure or implosion or whatever anywhere on the horizon—why would I "predict" their "failure", just because I don't like them? if this article (and others like it) was titled something like "Here's Why Twitter Should Fail: Ten Reasons I Don't Like It Or Elon Musk Very Much At All And Wish Both Of Them Would Just Go Away Forever", then, well, that would be a bit more honest, wouldn't it?
- giraffe_lady 4y ago
  Oh, yeah I guess. I don't want twitter to fail I just don't want it to suck more than it has to.

mecha_ghidorah 4y ago

Nah the reason I want twitter to die is I hate twitter and I think it has been a blight upon mankind. It is a bad platform for everything expect announcements/being a pseudo RSS feed yet people insist on using it for discourse and it's fucking stupid. I also don't like Musk but I wanted twitter to die for years before he had anything to do with it. I'm just excited and hopeful that he may eventually kill it