I mean why would you wanna do that? just wwhy?

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    Maintaining existing CSS is hard. Luckily, usurping all of social media as an “everything app” will be trivial by comparison.

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      Step 1: Fire 80% of your programmers

      Step 2: Promise new features including getting into banking and ecommerce and literally doing “everything”

      Step 3: ???

      Step 4: Profit(?)

      Seems like step 3 might involve stopping doing even the basics of keeping your existing client base happy.

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        Elon has clearly shown that I can trust him with my finances. I am excited to turn all my personal data and money over to his excellently designed software and highly ethical company. What could go wrong?

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        In step 3 is “lose 50% of your advertisers” and “completely destroy a well known brand that’s made its way into common nomenclature” among others

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        I can’t imagine wanting to use Twitter for anything critical after Elon axed the security and compliance teams. Like finance. You’re basically asking for your identity to be stolen.

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      Nope. Quit the bird site when he went full asshat. Barely used the bird site before but it was helpful for breaking news in the olden days. Other than potential A11Y legal action if it fails for contrast issues, I don’t think anyone should care about this stupid site now. The tech community has moved on.

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      I’m guessing that no one here does. If you’re on Lemmy, you’re probably also using Mastodon instead of Twitter.

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      I wish people were far more willing to just move on when the winds were changing, instead of sticking out for… god knows what reason

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          Do you honestly think people are staying on twitter because they want to hang with Musk? Are you on Lemmy because you want to hang with tankies?

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        I don’t get why I’m supposed to leave twitter all of a sudden. Because people on Lemmy don’t like it?

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          Because it keeps breaking down; because people are getting randomly banned for no reason; because the chance it has a future is essentially nil, because there’s essentially no abuse controls any more so if someone spams you out of the blue multiple times with CSAM discussion and then calls you a necrophile when you block them (as happened to me this week) you have no recourse; because you can only send ten DMs a day or some stupid number now; because “X” is silly and ugly and you’re cross about the cute bird…

          and because Elon is a narcissistic fuckboy, natch.

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            I can’t relate with your experience of what twitter is like. For me it’s the same it has always been. The niche corner of twitter I’m spending time on haven’t changed at all.

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          I feel like it is very obvious that twitter has no future. It has gotten a lot worse, and will keep on just getting even more so.

          It had been obvious from as soon as Elon began firing nearly everyone at twitter, jeopardizing its future development and maintanance.

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          You’re supposed to leave because you don’t want to support a narcissistic fuckboy. You should actively try to avoid giving dragons more gold because all they do is burn villages to the ground.

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        yeah, but the Twitter migration problem is “everyone i follow is here and not there so why would i leave?” It’s not like lemmy or Reddit where the individual disappears behind the content

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    Elon: “I’m going to delete this thing.”

    Everyone else: “NO! Why would you do that kind of thing?”

    Elon: “O-o-okay! B-b-but I’m going to delete something today! That other thing, then!”

    (Elon continues to read the hypothetical The Best Of Dilbert’s Pointy-Haired Boss book and gets so many ideas, folks)

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      Better yet, Lemmy should get the much asked for ability to filter out keywords from our feeds. Musk, Twitter and reddit would be blocked immediately. I’m so sick of them.

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    I’ve learned more about Twitter/Ten coming to Lemmy then I ever have anywhere else. I’m amazing so many people care about it.

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    I wish it would all just die and fade into obscurity, at this point. Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads all exist. There’s literally no need for xbirdsite anymore.

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      Threads needs to go too. In fact all sites that want to steal/sell all your data and control the whole world do.

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      There’s literally no need for xbirdsite anymore.

      1. Almost no one I follow on twitter is on those other sites
      2. Almost none of the people that follow me are on those other sites
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          Yeah, but you can’t make them move, can you. People are like birds flocking, they want their communities, and until people start to move organically they won’t go. You can talk to them all you like about how it’s better and how it’s not scary, but nobody’s going to go anywhere that doesn’t have the content they want.

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        It’s so annoying. The people I follow keep complaining about musk. Their followers keep telling them to move to Mastodon. But they don’t. What are they scared of? They’ll lose followers? Because I’m pretty sure if they switch and put a link on their twitter, a lot will follow.

        At least there’s a bird.makeup instance that reposts tweets to mastodon so you can follow them but you can’t interact with them.

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    Twitter’s going save money by hosting their website on Geocities. The new plan only comes with 250mb of storage and that dancing baby gif is like 3mb easy. Gotta clean up somewhere.

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    Imo so he can bring it back as part of the paid features, the dude is looking for ways to make money in literally everything