It’s quite amazing how much of a nosedive the already pretty crappy social media platform Twitter has taken since it was purchased by the might-as-well-be-a-sociopath Elon Musk. From the recent journalist banning because “oh no, my private jet assassination coordinates” to him reinstating the account of the only United States President to commit what, to me personally, amounts to treason, blocking links to virtually every other social media platform, and everything else in between, it’s been one hell of a few months on what many are comically calling “bird site.”
The hilarious thing is, I’m actually enjoying myself more on there than I have before. Maybe it’s because I’ve completely stopped giving a shit about “properly” using the site, or maybe because it just warms my cold heart to see everyone finally realizing how much of an overgrown emo kid Elon Musk actually is, or something else. I don’t know, and I don’t care. I’m just riding this wave wherever it takes me.
I’ve had a Mastodon account hosted on SDF for a few years now, and it’s been quite nice not just to see that service grow in usage, both on the SDF instance and across the web at large, but also to see people who I know on Twitter make sure to find and follow me on my Mastodon account. Obviously it’s a tiny following I have there, but the fact that it’s a mix of new friends only found there, and those who already know me and still wish to interact were I to be gone from twitter, that’s just the best.
Back to Twitter, as I said my experience hasn’t actually changed much save for one major thing — I’ve been constantly followed by PornBot accounts since the day Musk took over. Clearly no one is stopping said bots since, you know, Elongated Muskrat fired most of the Twitter staff, but it isn’t like they are causing me any actual issues so fuck it, the more the merrier. I’m certainly no prude who’s offended by such (and these are pretty low-tier PornBot’s anyway) but I feel like with Twitter in the current state of flames it’s in, them following me isn’t any kind of liability like it would have been even just a year ago.
To use a British colloquialism, it’s been a right treat watching Musk throw his toys out of the pram, clearly ticked off that he spent 44 billion dollars on something he can’t even begin to figure out how to actually run properly…. that, or he’s doing all this intentionally like some kind of maniac.
…and yet people still think he’ll get humans to Mars… that he’s some kind of genius… he’s nothing of the sort. He’s just some jerkass who made it big in the dot-com boom (with the help of his parents blood money) who later founded an overhyped rocket company for people who miss the point, bought an electric car company so he can look all progressive, and has a company to try to re-invent the 19th century art of the pneumatic tube railway system which will somehow solve all of the worlds problems!
Yeah, all that from a guy who’s single-handedly destroying one of the largest social networks to have ever existed. Totally trust him with anything. /sarcasm.
#FuckMusk