IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why “Hitler was right”
You support his ideology if you remain on that platform.
if you drink at the nazi bar, you might as well join their fuckwit club because you’re normalizing their behavior and sponsoring their lifestyle.
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Snooze motivation: moral condemnation
Better motivation: the funniest possible thing will happen to Musk if we just log off Twitter and stay logged off
I’m sorry but this is not productive at all. You could as well say that you support fascists if you live under a fascist state. Twitter is still full of people who are very unlike elon. There are plenty of reasons to abandon twitter but if someone does not that does not making him like elon
if you live under a fascist state.
you dont live in twitter land. you can just not use it XD
I just feel like if all of the left wing voices abandon twitter, the right-wing and fascist voices will become more common in general as twitter is where most people are. You cannot just let them exist and thrive unchallenged until it’s just not possible I guess. This will alienate people becoming more leftist if the average person, who just browses twitter because it’s popular, constantly sees more and more unchallenged bad takes.
twitter is where most people are
Twitter is gone. There is only X.
According to Musk, there are 556m monthly active “users”. A year ago Musk commissioned a study that found at least 11% of active users on Twitter were bot accounts. There’s plenty of reason to believe that that percentage has only gone up, especially in light of the fact that there’s been a significant exodus of users due to Musk’s handling of the platform, and that at the time of the study there were about 368m users. So either 200m people who were previously uninterested in Twitter were so impressed by how Musk systematically made X less functional and more expensive, or bot accounts became massively more prevalant.
Regardless, with a global adult population of 8+ billion, in no world is 556m “most people”, even ignoring the bots. Facebook has 3b monthly active users. Tiktok 1b. Instagram 2b.
As for the rest of the argument, the idea that the only way for extremist voices can be held in check is to politely engage them in rational discussion is sadly nonsense. They’re extremists. They aren’t interested in rational discussion. The only way to hold them in check is to deplatform them, whether literally or just by the old fashioned method of social ostracism.
nope, they would also leave if they dont have anybody to fight with.
Bullshit. No one HAS to remain on Twitter. It’s a choice. Living in a fascist state for many isn’t a thing they get to chose not to do. So you can fuck all the way off with this apologist bullshit.
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… and a bunch of people continue to rub elbows with Nazis instead of deleting their accounts and moving to Mastodon. I wonder what the breaking point will be?
I’ll admit I’ve not deleted my Twitter account.
Mostly because I’ve not logged in since 2013? I think I had a single tweet, and that was a reply to some event that I was personally involved in.
Compare that to Mastodon, and I actually have followed a few people and even got into a debate about different voting systems that drew in a third party who turned it into an argument.
So mostly a wash.
Yeah, to delete the account, you have to log in, and fuck that noise
I made a purposeful effort to reset my password and login to delete my 10-yr old account. I had only followed a few people (mostly friends) and never made a tweet myself, but I’ll be damned if I would be associated with something owned by Musk. My internet sucks at home, but I refused to buy into Starkink as well.
Well, that’s gonna get solved for you pretty soon then. They’re planning to auction off handles from accounts that haven’t logged in in the last few months.
I haven’t deleted my twitter account because it’s floating in some kind of hell where I can’t sign in with my regular twitter credentials because there’s a Google account using my email (which is my account that I made), and I can’t sign in with Google either because my email is already associated with a non google twitter account (the exact same account.)
They had a way to link your Google account to your existing twitter account and something went horribly wrong.
If you are still on Twitter, you are making a statement whether you like it or not.
Sadly, my kids school only announces the buses have left through twitter :/
That is fixable. Make waves with higher ups. Many in education are trying to fight this same battle. There are better alternatives, as we all know. I also work in education.
Not sure how much x makes from me browsing cosplayers posts on firefox with adblock but i guess thats how much statement i am willing to make.
More than the 0 they’d make of you left
Probably less than they make from me posting gay porn to my 2k subscribers using firefox with uBlock Origin.
Up until this morning, I used it to keep up to date in gamedev circles but I also made a Threads and bsky account in addition to Mastodon. I’ll be deleting it later this weekend.
If everyone did this…even maintaining X over a treansition period, we could all really send a message to big money.
What mistake?
IBM profited handsomely off the Holocaust… just like a lot of European and US capitalists did.
It was no mistake - it’s capitalism working as designed.
And Mao profited handsomely over a manmade famine. It really isn’t about the economic system.
Did IBM enthusiastically help out with that one, too?
When IBM, the guys that developed the computer system to schedule and track the holocaust itself, go “OY, cool your rhetoric Elon”, you know you’re well off the deep end.
Don’t worry, he still has their costume designer.
Could you take a screenshot when you post this stuff? I really don’t want to touch that pile of shit in any way.
I’m not sure a screen shot tells you anything that the url itself doesn’t. No need to click on anything.
Nice, a black and white charlie brown sweater, lol.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-kWuxFWkAEwOWo?format=jpg&name=small
Why are you still on twatter?
For that joke. I generally block it with AdGuard Home.
I don’t think there will be much damage. It’s not as though this were some huge surprise. The only people left on X agree with him or don’t care enough to mildly adjust their habits. I saw that IBM “paused” their ads, but I’d bet a nickel they will resume them once this blows over. They know what Xitter is. All the corporations know and don’t care. This very article on the NYT website has a button to share it on Twitter.
Xitter is such an appropriate name
Especially when Xi is pronounced as in Xi Jinping.
Hell even when pronounced as a Z like in xeno it works. Sounding somewhat similar to zit ad shit.
Precisely!
i’m using it from now on
So true. I think in general human beings dont really care as long as it doesn’t affect them personally.
Not true. Lots of are still there because lots are still there. You see they tried to move to Mastadon, but obviously were confused. They leave like three accounts on three different instances with a few posts about being confused or not getting on with Mastadon.
They aren’t nazies, they just don’t feel they can move.
“If 10 people are sitting at a table being civil to 1 nazi, there are 11 nazis at the table.”
Ah, yes, the civil environment of social media
They aren’t being civil to the Nazi. They aren’t conceding the table. They are furious at him for messing up the table.
This metaphor falls down when you realize the table is in a restaurant owned by a Nazi, and the table by the window makes the restaurant look really popular.
Refusing to concede the table is literally adding value to the Nazi owned table, and giving others cover to say “no we also hate Nazis; we’re just here because that table looks cool” which furthers the problem.
They are there because they were there before the Nazi bought the restaurant.
I want them to leave to, and come to Mastadon and Lemmy, but they don’t see able to. I don’t think of them as Nazies because of it. They argue with the Nazies. They are just ignorant and not IT literate enough to move. Though I think there is wide acceptance that it’s getting more and more toxic there.
Oh, shit, well as long as they got to the restaurant before the Nazi bought it, I guess there’s no harm in continuing to support it. Especially if they don’t have the technical knowledge to… Stop using a website?
Not sure you can say the are supporting it. They can’t use the other restaurants and can’t cook. There is probably a certain amount of denial they are dealing will full-on Nazies. Hard to see something when doing so means you have to act in a way very detrimental to your life.
That’s just a rubbish oneliner to make people think they’re smart. It’s the first time I stumble upon it, but its up there with “Live Laugh Love”, “never say never” and “you only live once”…
Nah, it’s a really useful tool for identifying assholes and bigots.
I’d have a civilised discussion with everyone, especially irl, even if they’d killed my brother, and not reject them before a conversation just based on their beliefs or actions… I may well reject them for not being able to discuss or argue, but dialogue is always the way to approach a dispute
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I never do. It sounds like you regularly intentionally misinterpreted what people say, to either make fun, bully or boost your own ideas.
I do not approve of Nazis, but I think talking to them and discussing with them is the best we can do to convince them of what they’re doing wrong.
EV competition can’t come fast enough. I love my Model S, but when the lease is up I am not buying another Tesla unless the board removes him, like, completely removes him. No stock, no continued royalties or pay out, I want him gone.
What a piece of shit waste of a human.
The same board (largely) that had to settle a suit because they overpaid themselves by close to a billion? With his brother? They’re not gonna do shit, unfortunately
Guess I’ll get a Lucid Air Sapphire or something, I don’t know. I really don’t. I just don’t want to go back to gas. I’ve driven over 25,000 miles for $500 of electricity and zero maintenance and it would be hard to go back :/
If the model S is in your price range, look into BMW’s i4 or iX. They did what I’ve been wanting all car companies to do:
Take a current, great gas car and just stick a battery in it.
We love our i4. Fast as shit. And we came from a nice Model S.
2024/2025 should be a great time of competition for EVs! The biggest complaint is that there isn’t a good 15-30k option, most are 40-120k. If you can afford that though, plenty of non-Tesla options!
Ioniq 5 are great cars, and I believe still have charging incentives.
Are Polestar available in your country?
EV competition is here. There are tons of models now, and the Ioniq 5, for example, was rated much higher by many reviewers than Tesla models last year.
Where can I go to even look at EV options? Like, I’m personally aware that more EVs exist, but I have no idea where to even look at a simple list, which means I’m basically just remembering cars off the top of my head which were advertised to me.
Just hit up the major manufacturers websites. Almost every brand has several EVs now. They’re not hard to find anymore.
Edmunds has a section of their site devoted to EVs:
https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/
And some lists of what they consider the best ones (this is obviously subjective:
EV competition can’t come fast enough.
its already here since years brah
man, my only options are an I-miev, a leaf, or something like a prius or insight, or some other higher MPG small used car. I would say it can’t come fast enough, cause the secondhand market can’t come fast enough, but I don’t even know if that’s gonna be the case. Somehow I can’t picture a used tesla, or really most modern cars, for cheaper than like 20,000, or thereabouts.
IBM: Oh shit! Not making that mistake again.
I would say eat the rich but I would hate for someone to get that sick.
I’ll take one for the team.
I am also on team Eatlon.
It’s a date then
If you need t-shirts to show your team support, you can get them from the AFL-CIO.
Compost him
Your former pile of fertilizer is now weed killer.
The problem is people always forget that phrase starts with the letter B.
Just because the article is about a tech company owner doesn’t mean it’s related to technology.
Musk being a shitty person isn’t technology related.
Social media company losing a lot of money as a result is.
No, it really isn’t. A social media company’s income is business or financial related, not technology.
Does that mean any business that has a web platform or an app is valid content for this sub?
Twitter doesn’t just have a web platform, it is a web platform and used to be one of the largest. But I’d say that yeah, tech companies fall into my personal idea of what this sub is
So where is the “technology” in that? Just because it’s a social media company? There’s dozens of those now, so what? A company implementing a new API or front end website redesign or new service that uses technology is technology. Not this. This is just general shit. The Internet boom was in the 90s. You may have had a point back then when this stuff was actually new.
It counts as relevant if it’s in the community and people are upvoting it.
A lot of people will upvote anything on a list without even looking at the community or considering the relevance of the post to that community (/all, /subs, /new, etc.)
People are often wrong.
Why do you hate democracy? The people have spoken!
I mean, women and non-whites vote republican, so I don’t put a ton of stock into what the numbers say. I’m sure Florida or Texas could pass a vote re-establishing slavery, but that doesn’t mean the people are right.
Just because an article involves a tech company doesn’t mean it’s about technology. Twitter losing ad revenue because it’s owner is a nazi is not about technology; it’s about marketing, finance, and politics.
It would be nice if this community didn’t devolve into a Musk news feed like it did on Reddit.
Just because an article is about a tech company doesn’t mean it’s about technology. Correct.
This community is called “technology”. Also correct.
But people can post what they want and upvote what they want. So if this is what they want, then they aren’t wrong. Look at “trees”. Not a single damn tree in the whole place.
I really do recommend starting a community called techWithoutMusk and moderating it how you like. I’m sure a bunch of people would join. Or become a mod here, and change what people can vote on.
This is the opinion of !technology@lemmy.ml, but the !technology@lemmy.world mods have chosen to not take a stance against it time and time again. It goes to reason that they think it’s fine in this community for now.
Typical .world W and .ml L
Actually, I find it rather humorous that .world lets the users dictate what’s discussed, while .ml dictates what the users can discuss. It runs counter to the ideologies that .ml is associated with, yet it fits perfectly with most implementations of that ideology. Life imitates art indeed.
Yeah, except .world’s fucking weird when it comes to piracy and keep actively trying to horde the userbase for some reason?
You guys are sad af.
And you are salty af.
E: Y’all don’t like the occasional username joke? 😂
IBM’s marketing team must be so glad to have gotten the opportunity for something good to show up when their company’s name and Nazi are searched together
IBM redemption arc is underway
That’ll require taking ownership of what they did rather than never admitting responsibility or fault let alone apologizing.
At this point, is any racist shit from that dude even worth posting news about? Like i get that there should be consequences but i do not see any. All i see is info about a man i really do not want to read anything about. Daily. Not even only on here. Why does the internet have to be so god damn us-centric that i can not escape their crazy billionaires?
Especially in the “technology” forum :/
Also whats up with all the shaming and animosity towards people that have a hard time leaving a platform that they have grown accustomed with. I feel it is a bit ignorant to blame the users for the actions of of a rich maniac simply aquiring whatever he pleases.
Its not hard to delete an app and not download it again
It was brought to my attention lemmy has no native Mute support and not all apps have Mute. Its something they should support as a compromise for users who don’t want to leave, or otherwise, choose not to ignore topics.
I have no problem with No Fuck Monkey getting posted here. He is the richest technologist on Earth. X/Twitter is still a thing. SpaceX is a thing. That’s technology.
Never used the app.
Even easier then, you don’t even have an app to delete, you can just stop visiting a website.
Sure buddy. Hope you are vegan or i am superior anyways.
Great, if you were able to make that kind of dietary and lifestyle change then I’m sure not using a website would be no problem for you.
Removing a bookmark is easier to remove than an app
Yup, it’s still worth posting. Always call out bad behavior. Silence is acceptance.
Yes, as long as there are people who think he’s cool. Or think he’s not a total piece of shit.
He’s just about whittled his support down to the sort of people that cheer on that sort of shit, just like Trump
Once you get to that point News like this actually does help him. The people who care already know and so this just builds up his core supporters.
Given how many discounts X is giving advertisers, holy shit this dude spent 2 dollars to make 1
The point is to influence the election next year, not to make money
Influencing the election will make all the money.
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What?
🎵🎶 to the right now, to the left, take it back now y’all… cha cha real smooth🎵🎶
Wholeheartedly agree. Though I am not sure I would agree with your framing of it being ‘left’ or ‘right’. For sure the content seems to have more vitriol and divisiveness. I would use it in the past to follow scientists and their updates about research, it was really good for that.
Now the majority of those I follow post inflammatory comments or reactions to other content and I find the content writ large has decreased. I’ve so far increased my RSS, IRC, and mailing list usage, but it was nice to have tweets which are character-limited. I could skim through easier without having something catch my attention.
huh
He spent 2 dollars to lose 100 more like
He’s sitting on a big enough pile not to miss it. I wonder how much of this is crazy and how much is political hedging.
I’d be surprised if he could liquidate more than 40bln today, look at Tesla stocks P/E, its a house of paper cards. Spacex is always reportedly on the edge of bankruptcy. Last evaluation I saw of twitter value from its lenders was around 17bln, subtract its debts, that’s about 4bln.
He really has bet the house, it now a question of how long he can keep going on Tesla stock backed loans and if the stock price holds.
Forbes still has him at 241B. I wish he’d run out faster to get his ass out of the news.
Maybe X should rebrand itself as Twitter to move away from this scandal.
Annnnd he went full Henry Ford.
Controlling the damage Elon does must be like trying to control a fire after the building is razed to the ground and nothing is left but smouldering ashes.
Like trying to catch the smoke with a butterfly net
Don’t forget you might still be fired at any time as a cost cutting measure.
You’re forgetting the buildings in the surrounding area
