Twitter has officially rebranded as X and the service is now dysfunctional and falling apart. In other news, Kuz has AIDS and Kolyma has disbanded. Yet despite all this, 4-ch lives on!
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Twitter was full of idiots, I had a great laugh at the people who were actually upset about all the things that were happening.
I think in particular, the ones who saw it as some public service they were entitled to use, and got mad at the audacity of Elon Musk to do what he pleases with a company he owns. And the ones who seemed to think what twitter users were thinking was what the general public was thinking as a whole.
What get’s me about Twitter is how the user base haven’t quit and founded some alternative like the way 7chan or 2chan happened. Then come all the op eds denouncing Musk and trying to absolve Twitter. Like Twitter is this perfect angel “digital town square” and Elon came and ruined it. They are so addicted they can’t get over it. I honestly wonder how the internet would look if it wasn’t for that god forsaken site. Nu4chan rage baiting replacing the old lulzy meme factory that was the internet probably had a lot to do with Twitter and Tumblr. Fuck Twitter. Dorsey can go shove a brick up his ass.
>>3
The Misskey instances are finally gaining some momentum at least. Normies gonna normie, they'll keep slobbering over Elon's dick until Bluesky opens up or Threads isn't total garbage, but if a decent amount of JP artists head to the fediverse that works for me. I was never on Twitter for anything but porn anyway.
To me it seems Elon Musk is trying to destroy Twitter on purpose.
Although I would typically give praise for that I feel that there may be something worse than Twitter coming to establish the new public square people hold dear to them so much.
On the bright side at least there is more incentive to run your own social network service. You have Mastodon with people who want more restrictions than Twitter and you have Pleroma with people who want less restrictions than Twitter.
If I had to use a social network service i'd probably go with Misskey. To me it is at least trying to create something original instead of copying Twitter. Plus most of the users are not spewing out pure garbage that you would typically see on Twitter, Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.
>>5
Musk's strategy is to create an "all-in-one" Internet platform. The Chinese equivalent is Sina Weibo, Musk's X platform will behave similarly to this.
I thought kuz having AIDS was a joke at first lol, kaguya seems to be doing fine with heyuri and doll seems to be doing fine with wojak.farty though
twitter on the other had i have no excuses for, musk has some sorta brain damage i suppose
Musk is a wannabe Bezos or Bill Gates. He sees himself as a great businessman, a consummate monopolist muscling out the little man while ignorant NPCs and liberals heap on praise. But Elon is a conman floating on government subsidies who hasn’t turned a steady profit in his life. He’s not derailing Twitter, he actually thinks he’s doing the right thing and people should love him. I don’t understand how you could fuck up as head of Twitter but he managed to do it.
I guess when you have a luxury car brand that only rich people and brainless faggots buy from, it’s much easier to hide the fact your product is a piece of trash. But when it’s a social network millions of people to use it’s way harder to maintain that facade.
Anyway, long live 4-ch. Here’s to another 20 years of larping as 2-ch.
I love to see how these structures that the people considered immutable despite being absout a decade old start to collapse. The very same titans that technocapital has created fall by their own weight.
I've heard a bit about reddit, but idgaf. I also heard some shit about facebook and his baby metaverse thing.
Anyway the real internet lives on.
>I feel that there may be something worse than Twitter coming to establish the new public square people hold dear to them so much.
That may be Zuck's Threads. But I honestly don't feel so pessimistic about this one, alternatives like Mastodon and Misskey are taking shape. The normies won't head into the small crevices probably, but I couldn't care less about what the normies are doing in all honesty. I'm hopeful that the slow destruction of Twitter will drive some of the more interesting and artful people to better platforms where I could actually interact with them without getting harassed or banned.
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Feels like a bit of a modern day Icarus story. Maybe a tower of Babel. Trying to please this many people in one platform seemingly causes these corpos to eventually crumble under the weight of their own userbase. Or possibly capital. It's funny to watch either way.