Elon doesn't want you browsing Twitter

I'm pretty happy just using Lemmy and discord, I deleted Twitter and reddit because of recent events, it's definitely helped keeping my screen time down and discord typically leads to more fulfilling conversations imo

The irony is that Twitter is the one that's causing the performance issues for itself https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723

It seems they're just trying to make it seem intentional when really, they're just struggling now that their Google Cloud contract has expired.

In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023

Taking bets : when will spez do the same thing ?

I loooooove seeing Twitter unalive itself

"Pay for your news feed and comments we demand it! Stop blocking our ads it's not fair" ~ venture capital schmucks everywhere

I could never understand what drew people to Twitter. I just want to stab myself in the eyes everytime I end up there.

I do not understand his logic. It could be due to coding issues but his vague statement plus all the antics since he took over is just very suspect. Feels like he is working on another money grab idea.

Great to know Elon cares this much about my mental health.

This might actually get more people to move to Mastodon as the influencer accounts will want as many eyeballs as possible instead of only people with a twitter account, and these companies are rich enough to setup their Mastodon instance where they get to control their content instead of Musk.

this is genuinely mind boggling. So he plans on eventualy making twitter pay to play!?

Maybe the super-rich want Twitter gone because they saw how it was used to organise protests during the Arab Spring. Musk is just the guy making it happen.

I've been saying it for months. Teslas are inherantly unsafe and I won't ride in one.

The big name platforms literally forgot its the community that makes them. They think its their platform. It never has been.

First time I've ever agreed with Elon on anything. I don't want to be browsing Twitter either.

Once Musk took over Twitter, and he opened his day with firing half his staff, we kinda knew he was going to enshittify Twitter into irrelevance. Now we're watching as the world catches up and seeks alternative platforms for general announcements.

While I think it would be more than a few minutes, this would still limit people's time on Twitter. I can't imagine advertisers are super happy about that idea.

#Sorry, I couldn't #read all of that. Too many #hashtags in the #way of the #tweet.

#Lemmy #FuckTwitter #PostedOnMyIphone #ihavenoideawhatimdoing

this is the dumbest thing i have ever seen in my fucking life, holy fucking god

we're reaching levels of capitalism that shouldn't even be possible!

When I gave twitter a go to try and fill the Apollo shape hole in me I noticed the toxic algorithim and brain dead users so I am glad that I found Lemmy. I am just really confused as to what Elon is doing? He seems to be throwing money away for the fun of it.

I can't think of any reason one would want to stay on the birdsite any longer. What's the use if you can't have full access to people's posts?

Based on how much Mastodon is struggling right now, I'm guessing they're getting another boost today, too..

Terrible decision from Elon.

I wonder if reddit, twitter and youtube all got around a table one day and decided that no, actually, screw the users entirely.

Because they are all doing really bizzare things.

Guess Mastodon is gonna get hit by a wave of newcomers...

LOL I do not miss Twitter a bit.

Phrased like Trump would say

The big name platforms literally forgot its the community that makes them. They think its their platform. It never has been.

Putting that 44 billion to work

Crawlers and scrapper bots consume a fuckload of traffic, that much is true. But I think it's a bit too late, there's already enough "twitter warehouse of posts in X language" to feed most AI needs, at least for coming up with short answers.

Also, I can't believe Elon did something that could be generally seen as a good thing overall (forcing people to spend less time on twitter)

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In an interview he said he had to lay all these people off because otherwise the company would have gone bankrupt. But he is the reason it was on the path to bankruptcy. Like a god who saves you from a disaster he caused... In the dumbest way possible.

How slow does this mf read?

based

I've been saying it for months. Teslas are inherantly unsafe and I won't ride in one.

Maybe Elon is playing 4D Chess and trying to stop people from turning into Terminally Online Twitter Radicals.

Poster can't read?

To limit data scraping and system manipulation.

Wait for it, coming to Lemmy soon... ('cos right now it isn't interesting enough to scrape).