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> he just lied. But why? Because lying helped further his narrative in the public which is advantageous to him. Similar to how he lied for years about FSD.
What is FSD?
Full Self-Driving, aka Tesla's autopilot.
Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
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There’s been some speculation he is trying to build an Everything app a-la WeChat in China. Aside from the fact that the everything app concept has never really worked outside China, and certainly won’t fly with the EU — he probably would have been better starting it from zero. I’m pretty sure if he could have got out of the Twitter acquisition he would have.
And not only speculation, he tweeted this in October 2022: ”Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”
I'd say that Elon's claims about the future are highly speculative as well. After all, he's the same guy who claimed there would be a million Tesla robotaxis on the street by the end of 2020. I think it's more useful to look at them as PR statements and ask what effect they were intended to have.
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#323People here can't even read a few paragraphs on a link posted? > We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above. This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and…
> This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and post a link to follow their profile on a different social media site instead, not about posting links in general. If that’s what they meant, they’d say that. The actual language is clear and far more expansive because that’s not their intent. Put another way, the richest man in the world can hire his own PR team. Why are you giving away your credibility…
I think people are overreacting, as usually when there's something about social media going on. I have no horse in the game as I have no account on either of the sites. I merely warm my hands over the dumpster fire.
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#324Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo! If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy. So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even…
Honestly, this. I wasn't expecting much but was hoping that at least Elon has some unorthodox idea to try. What he promised wasn't supposed to work, but no matter who he is and what he believes in, I had to give him some respect - dude had actually put his money (lawsuit or not) where his mouth was, and that's a commendable thing. Except that... I really don't like roasting people - that's just faux pas, so I'll rath…
> dude had actually put his money (lawsuit or not) where his mouth was, and that's a commendable thing.
No he didn't. He was forced to.
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#325Does this guy not realize how much he fucked up his Mars idea? You would have to be insane to live in a place controlled by him.
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#326> Prohibited platforms: > Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr > 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio Missing from this list are things that are not direct competitors, but where creators have monetized brands that they're motivated to promote on Twitter, including: YouTube, OnlyFans. I suspect that promoting blog articles on Medium and Substack is still OK…
It is likely if Twitter had its monetized video platform that is in the works up and running, sharing a link to your youtube and other video sharing sites might also of been on the list, as the list is meant to chain and jail you to Twitter.
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I’m excited to check it out, signed up for the waiting list today.
Please don’t just move to another centralized platform. Mastodon is right there, and working.
That's true.
The only proper way that I can see to join Mastodon is to have your own personal instance. And maybe that's how social media should be, but then the difference between that and a webserver with an RSS feed is getting quite small.
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#328Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo! If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy. So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even…
I genuinely believed that he would try to allow more free speech on Twitter. There was a small chance that the experiment will succeed. I guess he never wanted that: he just lied. But why?
A pathological liar is lying, I wonder why.
I think the answer here is that he has no idea what he's doing and is making it up as he goes.
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#329"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.
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>The Musk comments are ridiculously low quality
What makes it low quality if he's deserving of ridicule?
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#330Banning links to Facebook? Really? This flying by the seat of the pants moderation style reminds me of friends in highschool running their own phpBB instances and IRC channels.. Also, Telegram, Discord, Tumblr aren't listed? Lol.
It's exactly a classic "mod meltdown" situation. Like the guy who brought Freenode (hn passim)