Musk offers to buy Twitter

[Cmaier]

Elon Musk is reportedly considering cutting more of Twitter’s workforce | Engadget

Twitter may cut more of its shrinking workforce as early as Monday..

www.engadget.com

 

[Citysnaps]

Seems musk would be an ideal candidate for court-ordered conservatorship.

A couple months ago.

 

[DT]

Hahahaha

"Umm, Mr. Musk, you're firing 1000 employees, and we only have 500 left ..."

"Yes, it's genius, a negative employee creates revenue. We fire 10,000 more that's $1M a week! BWAHAHA LOLZ!!!"

 

[Citysnaps]

Hahahaha

"Umm, Mr. Musk, you're firing 1000 employees, and we only have 500 left ..."

"Yes, it's genius, a negative employee creates revenue. We fire 10,000 more that's $1M a week! BWAHAHA LOLZ!!!"

That would be -10,000j employees.

 

[DT]

Hahaha, nice.

 

[Citysnaps]

Hahaha, nice.

Finally, a relatable everyday use for imaginary numbers.

Thanks Elon!

 

[Renzatic]

I went ahead and deleted my account. Not out of some showing of political or social solidarity, but because Twitter's engineering and security divisions have been gutted, so the chances of seeing a massive info leak out of the platform is almost guaranteed by this point.

 

[Eric]

I went ahead and deleted my account. Not out of some showing of political or social solidarity, but because Twitter's engineering and security divisions have been gutted, so the chances of seeing a massive info leak out of the platform is almost guaranteed by this point.

I felt liberated when I nuked mine, I also deleted the app from my phone and outside of citing another source from a news link somewhere don't go anywhere near the platform.

Something will need to fill the void, this new thing you guys are talking about sounds a lot like Discord but I'm just going to wait things out for a bit and see what ends up sticking.

 

[Renzatic]

Something will need to fill the void, this new thing you guys are talking about sounds a lot like Discord but I'm just going to wait things out for a bit and see what ends up sticking.

Mastodon is a decentralized Twitter. I haven't had a chance to use it myself yet, but scrolling through the news and comments feeds, it's almost a carbon copy clone.

Course I never used Twitter all that much anyway, so, you know, whatever.

 

[Cmaier]

I felt liberated when I nuked mine, I also deleted the app from my phone and outside of citing another source from a news link somewhere don't go anywhere near the platform.

Something will need to fill the void, this new thing you guys are talking about sounds a lot like Discord but I'm just going to wait things out for a bit and see what ends up sticking.

In use, mastodon feels more or less like twitter. There are some differences - no “quote” tweets unless your client offers that, if you mention someone with @ in a DM, then they get dragged into the DM ( causing awkward situations for those who don’t realize it), and timelines is always chronological. The “federation” thing just means that anybody can set up a server (just like an email server), and as long as the servers are willing to talk to each other it makes no difference to the users. You can see toots from other servers, etc. You can also move your account from server to server as you wish.

Mostly it feels just like twitter to users, except a little jankier (servers are struggling under the influx of new users, and having to figure out what server to sign up for can cause confusion to new users).

 

[thekev]

Lots of still-at-Twitter engineers started quoting Elon’s tweets after he fired the Twitter for Android engineer yesterday for doing exactly that. Those people are also getting fired now.

This is just one example, but I’ve seen quite a few in my timeline:

Critically, this person was also from the infrastructure team, as were many of the other engineers fired.

Musk sounds like a complete jackass. He had a bunch of quips regarding rpcs (remote procedure calls), which made it sound like he never examined what he was complaining about.

That would be -10,000j employees.

Hopefully they don't multiply. That would be difficult to explain to accounting..

I actually wanted to make a joke here about it driving twitter further into the red fast, but if you're multiplying purely imaginary negative quantities, you'll end up with a real negative value .

 

[DT]

I did not realize posts on Mastodon were called ... Toots. I suspect this will drive some rapid improvement of the platform, this is pretty amazing:

It is interesting that anyone can stand up a server, and if you follow proper protocols, you can become a linked server offering in the central catalog, here's the more-than-reasonable rules:

Mastodon Server Covenant for joinmastodon.org

joinmastodon.org

 

[Eric]

In use, mastodon feels more or less like twitter. There are some differences - no “quote” tweets unless your client offers that, if you mention someone with @ in a DM, then they get dragged into the DM ( causing awkward situations for those who don’t realize it), and timelines is always chronological. The “federation” thing just means that anybody can set up a server (just like an email server), and as long as the servers are willing to talk to each other it makes no difference to the users. You can see toots from other servers, etc. You can also move your account from server to server as you wish.

Mostly it feels just like twitter to users, except a little jankier (servers are struggling under the influx of new users, and having to figure out what server to sign up for can cause confusion to new users).

Okay, so you need to join (create an account) one of these existing servers that has topics you're interested in? That's what it appears but it's not really clear.

 

[DT]

Okay, so you need to join (create an account) one of these existing servers that has topics you're interested in? That's what it appears but it's not really clear.

Yeah, they're all connected, but your "home" server can be a little more specific to your interests, have specific rules for things like NSFW content, etc.

I haven't actually setup an account, so I'm not sure how the filtering works, i.e., do I really care what server I register on if I can simply ignore the "local" content[?]

 

[Cmaier]

Okay, so you need to join (create an account) one of these existing servers that has topics you're interested in? That's what it appears but it's not really clear.

There are general servers and ones that are more focused on topics. Each can have different moderation rules, membership rules, etc. if you join one of the more general ones, it ends up being more like Twitter.

 

[Renzatic]

I haven't actually setup an account, so I'm not sure how the filtering works, i.e., do I really care what server I register on if I can simply ignore the "local" content[?]

This is a good question, cuz I want to sign up to glasgow.social, despite not living anywhere near Glasgow.

edit: I changed my mind. Toot.wales sounds even funnier.

 

[Alli]

That’s what I’m talking about.

Apple Executive Phil Schiller Deactivates Twitter Account

Apple's Phil Schiller, responsible for Apple events and the App Store, has deactivated his Twitter account following recent developments on the...

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I’m on mastodon now, and will deactivate my Twitter account when I get back from vacation (I want to download my data first).

Who are you there? I can follow you as easily there as on Twitter.

I did not realize posts on Mastodon were called ... Toots. I suspect this will drive some rapid improvement of the platform, this is pretty amazing:

After a few minutes on Mastodon I realized I would need another degree just to get all the new terminology unique to Mastodon. Yikes!

I was pleased when I discovered there are already Mastodon apps, and that actually made signing up easier. I went with mastodon.world. Pleased there was room on it. I’m already enjoying the hell out of it.

 

[Cmaier]

Who are you there? I can follow you as easily there as on Twitter.

@cmaier@mastodon.social

 

[Renzatic]

I went with mastodon.world.

Ditto. I can now toot.

 

[Alli]

Ditto. I can now toot.

Toot me, baby!