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.
>>9
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.
The funniest thing was when the Twitter files story came out and the mainstream press all rushed to defend pre-Musk Twitter like a god damn cult. The only thing that worries me is if the terminally online Twitter cretins who are hopelessly addicted to the site start fanning out all over the internet in search of a new home. Normies probably won’t head to the small crevices but the hopelessly addicted Twitter tweakers might.
>>11
Should be safe, even if some venture onto Mastodon they'll just sign up on the main instances which are already cancerous. They'll never even discover the other fediverse apps, much less actual websites if those are what you're concerned for.
I think most of them are bewildered and terrified by the entire concept of "instances" though and will genuflect before the Zucc instead.
Of course Threads will supposedly join the fediverse too at some point but every decent instance will immediately block them, plus they'll probably block all JP ones preemptively themselves over lolicon, if not just NSFW content in general.
>Of course Threads will supposedly join the fediverse too at some point
It won't. Remember Facebook Messenger and Google Chat used to be XMPP compliant? Well, once they get users they cut off everyone else. It will happen again.
I can see a bunch of mainstream media journalists, artists, writers etc. migrating to threads now that you can only view X if you log in. Especially artists who already have instagram accounts and want to spread their work. I doubt the average brain damaged Twitter user is going to leave. They’ll bitch and moan but they’ll stay on X anyway.
Literally all tumblr has to do is completely welcome back porn and Twitter will lose the people who help generate clicks. With no weirdo leftists to try to trigger or fight with, Musk sycophants won't know what to do with themselves.
>>17
The issue is that both credit card processors and mobile app stores will fuck you over for having porn accessible in your app. Twitter was only able to get away with it because it made all its money through advertising and by the time it became a porn hotspot, it was far too big to mess with. Tumblr in its current state, on the other hand? They would cheerfully nuke the place from orbit while sipping whiskey.
Curious how Bluesky will deal with it once the app stores start paying attention. I'm not on there but I hear the moderation is fucked up and furry porn often trends.
Looks like soyjack party went down. Good riddance. Yet again 4-ch outlives a cesspool.
Talk about a joke that outlived its welcome...
>>20
That would imply it was ever welcome in the first place. Literally one of the shittiest trolling methods ever invented. Too bad it's likely shartyfaggots will just make a new imageboard and continue trolling boards dot four chan dot com for the foreseeable future.
The 'joke' being 4-ch, of course.
I actually like the Twitter rebrand but this is where I go for pure soul.
Now Musk wants all /x/ users to upload their face and ID and send it to an Israeli company. Definitely nothing suspicious going on here.
>>24
I legitimately thought it was a joke when I heard that. It's literally a goddamn 4/pol/ meme come to life.
>>24,25
I'll repeat it again: 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. Musk had wanted X to work as a bank 20 years ago, the current incarnation of X is inspired from that idea from years ago.