• OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      27·
      2 months ago

      Yeah the only way to kill a troll is to… just stop talking to/about them. They feed off the negativity of others - Elon likes it when people increase the stock price of his company, and allow him to sell the userbase to advertising firms, so every single word of this just makes the Musk all that much stronger. Every. Single. Word.

      • Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world
        131·
        2 months ago

        This only works if everybody follows that rule.

        In real life, some of this shit gain critical mass, and afterward, ignoring it would give it even more platform by leaving it uncontested.

      • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world
        51·
        2 months ago

        First off, Elon isn’t the guy who goes on Lemmy repeating clichés he’s heard and accepted as fact without ever questioning… is it even true? Or applicable? Sorry, but I think I’ll go with Mark Twain and Voltaire on this one: the best way to deal with a narcissist is to let the air out of their ego and slam them with satire, exposing them for the idiots they actually are.

        Elon isn’t going to disappear just because you dare not speak his name. He’s far too busy blowing up billions of dollars of taxpayer money while his mindless fanboys gargle musk and cheer.

    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10·
      1 month ago

      I just watched Glass Onion and when Benoit Blanc announced frustrated that Miles Bron, the billionaire in the movie, is not some cryptic genius but rather an overrated idiot, I strongly felt that he must’ve been inspired by Elon Musk.

    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
      43·
      2 months ago

      TBF again, he probably could have sold it again and not lost himself and other investors so much money. He still has a hero complex, it is part of his stupidity.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        36·
        2 months ago

        I mean, he couldhave sold it…but he bought it for 43 BILLION dollars.

        Prior to the sale, twitter was losing money. It had never been profitable. And it was NEVER worth 43 BILLION dollars.

        Sure, he could sell it for 30 million dollars, but what sense does that make?

        The fact of it is, he’ll likely never recover the costs he paid, because of the stupid high price he paid for a never profitable company.

        The part that baffles me is…why haven’t the userbase flooded outwards? If you’re on twitter today, and you’re not on bluesky/mastodon, you have nooooooooo right to complain that musk is supporting a facist agenda.

        He is. I’m not denying that. I’m just saying twitter users have no right to complain about it, because they enable it.

        • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          93·
          2 months ago

          That’s its snowballing. You know you’d be pretty obligated to use one channel of communication if everyone uses it becauae you need to stay in touch. The same works in leaving it because you feel like ditching former Tweeter is leaving the place everyone is, even politicians.

          • bstix@feddit.dk
            161·
            2 months ago

            Never used it. Never missed it. Never lost touch.

            Anything that ever happened on that site worthy of being called “being in touch” has always been and always will be reported elsewhere too if its actually worthwhile. I see more more of it than I want to anyway. Even this post.

            You can quit it today and not miss out on anything.

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
            111·
            2 months ago

            Well, it’s not really snowballing. That would suggest they gained users since elon bought it. They were all there, they just refuse to leave.

            And it all starts with creating a different account. Either bluesky or mastodon. Still keep twitter, but create this other account. And use it.

            Now you have two accounts. And as people do this, mastodon and bluesky would face a moment where they realize that if they combined their activity, their usability would double.

            If bluesky and mastodon each had a few million users, and they both became part of the fediverse, and played nice with all fediverse platforms, then suddenly bluesky users could see mastodon posts, and lemmy posts, and pixelfed posts, and peertube posts.

            Same with mastodon.

            And now suddenly you have a usable alternative. And people can leave twitter, but they won’t leave twitter, like you said because all the content they want to consume is already there. And who produces content people want to see? Celebrities. Go check any celebrities page, they have millions of followers. Well if they started using the fediverse instead, all those millions of people have a reason to use mastodon, or bluesky as a secondary platform. And as time goes on, and more celebrities come with them, they bring their core audience.

            See my post in the fediverse community for my thoughts on that, and how everyone hates it.

            Everyone wants to take down google, and reddit, and twitter, but they don’t want “those people” coming here. They want this place to grow…but they don’t want normies and celebrities here.

            No take stick, only throw.

            • kinsnik@lemmy.world
              10·
              2 months ago

              snowballing

              yeah, it is not snowballing, it is Network Effect. for the people who want to use a twitter-like social network, the value is in the many other people using it.

              but, as you are doing, telling people to leave is the correct move. because for every person that the network loses, the network loses value for everyone (the network effect going in reverse)

    • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 months ago

      What!? He was forced to be responsible for his words? /s

      I can’t remember, exactly, but didn’t he start the process and then try and back out of it?

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
    38·
    1 month ago

    His act kinda resembles a guy who would have had a burnout, but keeps going with amphetamine. Not sleeping at nights, unable to concentrate, arbitrary snap decisions, slowly loosing sanity, illusions of grandeur, common ideological ground with Trump, etc. Decade of that and he’ll be Trump.

  • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 months ago

    I bet he really thinks “i am not one of those that want power, i have and always had power”.

    He sees himself on a much much higher level of existence, than we mere lemmings…

    At least, that’s my impression.