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Nov 2022

So... you are okay with miniorites being hurt cus they are a small percent?

Mask off moment :eyes:

Sorr but. Wow thats ignorant plus that percentage is grossly incorrect

lol, are seriously saying I said that from saying he's not trying to hurt a small minority? Can you read?

Have you been living under a rock? Have you been on Twitter? People harass LGBTQ people there all the time especially transpeople. I thought you said your friends were gay, why don't you want to stand up for them?

"You aren being attack"
-says the (my apologies) straight white cis-guy who had never been in the shoes of a minority group simping for a billionere who got ruch off the apartheid era in africa.

Dont gaslight how a marginalized group feels everyday with how shit laws have been getting for us. You dont see it cus You arent being affected ansd will never be.

Listen to marginalized groups for once

I never said my friends were gay, I don't discuss that with people. specially strangers. Second, EVERYONE got attacked on twitter. EVERYONE. The problem is you have a bias as its happening to people you know/like/hang out with.

I mean ive seen you other comments and i tend to remeber people.if i had a friend like you i wouldnt say a word about the shit i deal with everyday. Cus you seem the type to pull "you are exgagrating"

Then who wrote this?

So you don't know me but you felt fine attacking me and telling me to not have opinion. Do you not understand how that sounds? You just pulled you strawman target out of thin air and used it to attack a stranger you know nothing about.

So you dig up an old post to prove what? That I am or not the guy that doesn't mind lgbt being attacked? If you knew I posted that, why would you think I was attacking them? Just to prove your point? Once again, no one cares as much about you gender as you think. Most of the world has better things to worry about and won't spend 44 billion to attack less than 1% of the population. Move on with your life. Elon doesn't care about you, me, or anyone he doesn't know that much. Stop putting evil intentions to people you don't know.

Attacking? Bro really?

I just disargeed and to tried to explain why talking over minorities is a shitty thing to do

But i guess that's attacking for privileged people :pray:

Once again not 1% read a book please. Not daddy Elon book though one from people with thoughts

"Oh and as a straight man, I have never been hit on by them, not once. They are friends."

Likely dug it up to prove you said you had gay friends. That's it.


Anyways, y'all are derailing the thread. Twitter might be going, are there any alternatives that y'all would like to present?

Okay, is no one gonna talk about how Elon Musk firing the Accessibility Team that literally helps people with disabilities to navigate the site? Okay? I'll wait because I sure hope he does have a plan to recover that in the future. Just saying here.


Anyway, I heard about Mastodon being a thing. I want to know how good that site is because I have been hearing so much hype about that

I recommend you to avoid strawmanning people. That only undermines the credibility of your argument no matter how valid it may be.

If you think you are dealing with a straw man let them fall under the weight of their flawed arguments.

this and many other firings like the security teams is actually a huge concern for me coz it puts the sites integrity in question alongside functionality. Like by the sounds of it it seemed like more than 75% of the staff has left but I don't know if there's any official numbers out yet. But in terms of what it means for the site it's unnerving, frustrating, confusing and a lot of other things

I'll ride it out for as long as I'm able but I'm being pick and choosy with regards to Twitter dupes because even some of those seems to have flaws, which sure no site is without them but I'm not signing up all willy nilly to new sites like i have in the past

yeah, thank you for bringing this up and getting this thread back on track, I think people are getting mad distracted talking about Elons many sins (which there are SO MANY), from the fact that Twitter went from 7,500 employees to 3,700 and it's still dropping. Like it's normal to lose people when you buy a company, and especially if a company is merging with another company and can replace the hires. But this is about one guy who just bought ownership of the company. That was it. All he had to do was NOTHING and he would have been successful. All he had to do was NOTHING.

Like he's being the most abusive boss possible to clear that entire company of human beings. He's doing things far beyond what even legally allowed when it comes to firings and workplace hours, and will be under lawsuits for eons after the dust settles. And right now the computer services team that was 100 people, the team that keeps that site running, is now 4 people. It is incredible that twitter is still running, but can it just cut out? Yes. But I have seen valid social media websites become graveyards for less.

And like I've been on that website for 10 years, with other accounts (my current is only a year old) but this isn't the first time I lost an art social media site, nor will it be the last time. Did twitter get me some sales? yes. But it's time to leave twitter.

Lately been jumping over to instagram and tik tok. They've added templates there that make it easier to make video out of still images, which is nice since you sort of have to. Especially if you use capcut (which is free phone app) you can use capcut templates for tik toks. Tumblr has been more active as well, which was surprising.

There is an alternative to high incompetence.

There is a corporate term called "black knight takeover"....
which in simple words is basically buying a company to burn it to the ground......
This is often done to get rid of competition, but in this case it might be for pettier reasons, or genuinely believing that twitter is a toxic dump that needs to be destroyed

While i despised twitter and still despise how it is right now, if i were an excentric billionaire i wouldn't buy it to destroy it.

Some practices like charging money to "verify" an account doesn't seem practical for it's claimed purpose.....

I read an article that Twitter might become a huge risk for hacking made worse by people who now add information to pay for Twitter. People may be at risk of there info being stolen.

I feel like this is always a risk regardless but there's absolutely a higher level of vulnerability with those people gone and I have no doubt in my mind that EM would resort to selling personal info for profit (Google and Facebook already do so I imagine the mindset being along the lines of "what's one more")

As unlikely as this seems (he spent several billion dollars on it and tried to back out 3 times, and he doesn’t own any competitor as far as I know) I think one of the worst consequences is that we’re losing an important source of peer to peer info sharing. a lot of important news/discourse that’s not covered by mainstream media was shared on there, and Twitter shutting down would only benefit dominant media sites and their biases.
That said, this might still have been the case (or worse) with what he was planning, even if he didn’t f it up lol