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I don't care how many twitter killers they make, I just want to see if Zuck and Musk are truly going to cagefight for real one day...
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Of course not l'mao. There should be a betting thread already.
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I didn't have Celebrity Deathmatch on my 2023 bingo card but I'm not gonna be sad if it happens
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Id rather watch them frick. I wonder what hole theyd use 1st?
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It's totally been over for Twitter like once a month for the past year.
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nothing ever happens
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This but unironically
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Originally people were claiming the death of twitter because Musk was gonna unban all the meanies and everyone was going to flee which was never going to happen. Now though Musk has been making twitter functionally worse which could actually kill the platform.
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And I am here for it
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Nah, if you followed people who’ve worked with big, distributed systems like this they all said the shit will be fine for 9mo or so, then it gets interesting. Which is what we have been seeing.
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BS. I all I saw was a world class programmer saying the site will be don't in a week.
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Note the operative term “programmer”
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The reason twitter can't be replaced is twitter fundamentally was always shit as a concept and no one is going to want to move to a not twitter.
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It's a weird inverse of why Reddit will never be replaced... Twitter is shit in literally every way, but because any improvement on it is by definition unfamiliar to the core audience, no one will ever switch. Twitterinos have not only gotten used to the taste of shit, it's gotten to the point that they won't eat anything that isn't shit.
By contrast, reddit in a broad sense, for the purposes of the I-just-want-le-funny-cat-pics-and-celeb-goss crowd* , is literally flawless. All its flaws lie on the fringes, so any site that claims to compete will attract only a niche audience who are put off by a specific fringe issue, and thus that site will never be the general purpose giant that reddit eventually became.
Case in point: voat, imzy (or whatever the feminist voat was), ruqqus, this site, etc. All sites created because X got thrown off reddit, so only x-fans use the site.
*sidenote: am I the only one that noticed that generic (as in not restricted to category-specific subreddits) celebrity gossip and entertainment news used to simply not exist on reddit, and now fauxmoi and popculturechat hit the front page daily? Doesn't smell organic to me - why now?
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It's pretty simple. Reddit wanted to attract more female users. That's a big reason why it clamped down on all the non-liberal subs (anything related to Trump, incels, far-right etc). Nowadays the site is probably 30-35% women, while back in the day it would've been less than 10%.
(Self-ID at least. Biofoids would be around 25% or less.)
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Can confirm this via biofoids I know via groupcat osmosis who are unironic redditors and I assume know none of it's fun history like when it dragged it's feet for years on shit like removing r/ jailbait
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Huh that’s a new take I haven’t heard. Good post.
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Source? Source? Source?
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This is a really long way of saying you don't frick.
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Hacker News couldn't forecast a drought in death valley.
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twitter sucks and is genuinely getting worse by the day but i don't see it dying anytime soon
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Depends if Muskrat continues making r-slurred changes like the rate limiter.
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AFAIK 'powerusers' are based around communities ala tumblr and it's fandoms, shit like kpop and anime or w/e. So yeah as long as he doesn't ban porn it'll probably be fine but even then it'll probably survive.
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It has porn, it's not going anywhere.
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Did they really brand threads as "an instagram app" so that the stupid buttholes who use instagram would realize theyre supposed too download it?
@TheHIVocracy say this as a feminist ally
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Pretty high iq move by them, all the zoomer foids I know don’t touch FB but love Insta.
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"Bitches love the 'gram"
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I’m not making a facebook account
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you don't need to
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Insta nt dud
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This thread will inevitably be attacked by insecure feminists and manlets. Now, you might be saying "haha, you are quite repugnanted by women." No, I am not. To be fearful of the female s*x is a paradox in itself. One cannot be fearful of that which crumbles under the gaze of pure molten strength. Now, I am not one of those, ah, alpha bros. No, I took myself from that philosophy quite a while ago. You see, I am a natural man. As you should be. A man is not afraid to exhibit his sexuality in the same way those slutty girls in my college do… they don't realize the eyes which judge them. They don't realize that I observe every. Single. Movement. They. Make. Oh, and the feminists. Naturally, by stereotype, they come in groups. Herds, like cattle for the slaughter. They shriek their opinions. They shriek them.
Now I will get to the point. I will… don't worry. Before the feminist witches come in and bury this comment in an underwater grave… you see. I am not angry, no, quite the contrary. I am merely… observing. Observing that which does not, no, interest me, but piques my interest, you see. And that is the female s*x. The ever so hypocritical and slobbering receptacles of hatred and submissiveness… it is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Yes, I have had a bad experience with females. But now that I have a more…base viewing of them, they fly to me like honey and bees. It's hilarious as they degrade themselves to even be in my presence. Of course, I turn most of them down. You should see my Facebook. Full of pump and dumps… heh. This chick, Cherry, (fake name, don't worry), a 9.5/10 European with a… nice personality is definitely the X-chromosome's finest concoction. Heh. But she withers. Withers because she will never have me. I know the mind of a female, my friends… Men have evolved for longer than they have, and this is a fact. It is a parasitic relationship which you must turn around and make the parasite herself submit to you.
You see, we men are being constantly undermined. Undermined until we are drowning below piles of coal. Drowning below the feigned superiority of the, ah, frailer s*x. But you see, this must be paused in its tracks. It is quite bemusing to see all these… apparent men scour like termites to the toes of their objects of lust. The emotion which seems to control the minds of the weak as manicured fingers tug the strings of their minds like puppets. It is disgusting and lowly… dehumanizing. Desexualizing. What men have been reduced to is despicable. Norse mythology used to be the prototype of masculinity…wenches being thrown every which way as they cower in a lustful trance whilst gazing upon their male superior. Their general. But now, men have become the horses which guide the carriage, ready to be whipped at any moment… disgusting… PM me if you need advice on the opposite s*x.
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