Oh, Elon... you twit

[malada]

Elon Musk has the philosophy of "Move fast and break things." Well, when you have a pile of money to burn and safe places to blow stuff up - that will work for hardware. I remember a lot of explosive failures when SpaceX first started out. Sometimes the only way to learn things is to break things.

That approach doesn't work with social media.

Right now Twitter is *broken* and Elon is stumbling to move fast - which means he's breaking things even faster. This frightens the money people (advertisers) and when software breaks it leaves big holes for hackers, jokers and just plain mean people to f*ck you up.

Advertisers want to be associated with nice things. Nazis and people screaming the 'n' word are not nice. Conspiracy theories that blame drag queens and gay people for all our problems is not nice. Claiming that demons are causing climate change is not nice.

Death threats and promising violence is not nice. Yet, that is what's happening to Twitter right now. And Elon keeps moving fast and breaking things.

I hope it breaks him.

-m

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[dewline]

Meanwhile, I've managed to put my own finger in that proverbial dike. Two fascist accounts suspended under the hateful conduct rules so far. Today, that is.

While it's not going to be the Mission of the Rest of My Life, I hope to bag a few more of these before either the change of ownership to saner hands or Twitter falls to pieces or I get personally ToSed out of Twitter by Musk's order.

[valeria22]

Sans the bigotry occurring on Twitter, what Musk is doing to the site has been hilarious to watch. I've been like this for the last week:

In all seriousness what he's doing is going to ruin the site and make it something to stay away from. Where its userbase will go I don't know, but I hope the artists on Twitter move to something like Newgrounds.

[mellotron_breakfast]

One observation I read in a tweet is that Elon Musk took over thinking Twitter was somehow run by "lefty sjws" and that's why the rules were what they were, and that he needed to "fix things". Twitter used to be run by people who had figured out how to make money with it, and that had way more to do with its rules. Someone suggested that even in the best case scenario, by trial and error he would gradually go back to how the rules used to be before he took over.

Seems like we're not headed for the best case scenario. My entire timeline has a "last day before the MMORPG is deactivated" vibe; "hey if you want to keep in touch here's everywhere else I am on the internet..."