@Roundcat@chiz@Chozo They’ve lost MOST of their advertisers, and their paid subscribers are down to the folks who need their service and haven’t yet figured out an exit. I don’t think they have much time left, darlz.
I don’t know about “MOST” as there are still a good amount of mainstream companies that advertise on the site. At least you wouldn’t know it if you are still on the site constantly. And I’m mostly going on about the users there who don’t like the changes there and constantly complain about them in articles or youtube, yet it is the only way they insist on engaging with their followers still.
The thing about Mastodon and Lemmy to users who exclusively use those sites is they are themselves a bubble. There are weeks I spend most of my web activity on kbin, and would believe reddit is on its death spiral. Yet I peak over there, and it’s about as active as when I left it. I even see articles about reddit or twitters activity recovering that I never see get shared here, because at the end of the day, the narrative we want to hear is “Corporate site is dying, we are the future!”
@Roundcat@chiz@Chozo I know! And I mostly agree. I don’t go to Reddit, unless I get a link from there but I do sometimes go to Twitter bc I had 30K+ folks I knew there, and I miss them. It rly is dying tho. Nothing but Nazis screaming bile, and stuff doesn’t work half the time. The bile is acceptable, but not working? Nobody pays for stuff that don’t work. Not for long.
I think Reddit will still be around, but when it comes to Twitter, the acquisition saddled the company with billions in debt amounting to around a billion in yearly interest repayment. Twitter already was barely making ends meet before that, and it only lost revenue for all the stupid decisions being made. Even if it was exactly as profitable as before, it wouldn’t be enough anymore.
One day Twitter is simply going to stop working, or close off so much it becomes unusable, unless Musk personally tries to keep it afloat at expense of his own fortune, or someone is dumb enough to buy it off of him and do the same.
I also see a lot of wishful thinking in the Fediverse, but this is not the case here. People there may not want to move on, but it’s not gonna keep it afloat. I already see a lot of people making their escape plans and linking alternative platforms every day.
alright now we’re gonna have quite a big discussion as to what “x server” means. x11? twitter?
“guys x servers are down!”
“have you checked your .xinitrc? did you start x?”
“whats an x innit racecar? the x servers are down!”
“how do you use x without knowing what an .xinitrc is… oh”
meanwhile reddit gonna rename themselves to “wayland”
Space-X, X AE A-12, trying to create a company named X since the 90’s…
guys, I think elon musk is obsessed with Speed Racers Racer X. Why else would X be such a prominent motivator for this creature?
Any theories? Deal with the devil made at a crossroads? Or maybe he just was really used to railroad crossing signs as a kid and wants to relive those memories?
@chiz X is so easy to search in internet. So many results; it gets never boring! Very unique name and brand.
Spez: Write it down, write it down! Let’s rename Reddit to Z! Employee: Why Z? Spez: What do you mean why? Does X make any sense to you too? Employee: All right, I should have never questioned you.
He seems to have had some lucky moves, and the whole “Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Boring” still look like a decent combo.
Everything else, looks like what someone with DGAF money would do to pass the time. At least he’s not going on a safari collecting trophies, or something.
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Twitter rebranding to Alt-F4
There’s already an unofficial factorio blog called alt-f4
There’s also a game
Same shit sandwich, new brand
The one upside of this is that Tucker Carlson spent so much money rebranding to Tucker on Twitter and now it’s wasted
I doubt anyone will want to see Tucker on X past the first couple minutes of hilarity.
But I’m old and I think they call that Molly now
Ah yes, an X for the company known for their ✓. I’m sure that won’t be confusing at any point.
@Chozo @chiz Who cares? The company’s dead, it’s just the skeleton rattling thru the halls till every bone falls off.
Except that their business model of “bUt EvErYoNe Is HeRe” or “Mastodon/Bluesky is too complicated” seems to be keeping them afloat.
@Roundcat @chiz @Chozo They’ve lost MOST of their advertisers, and their paid subscribers are down to the folks who need their service and haven’t yet figured out an exit. I don’t think they have much time left, darlz.
I don’t know about “MOST” as there are still a good amount of mainstream companies that advertise on the site. At least you wouldn’t know it if you are still on the site constantly. And I’m mostly going on about the users there who don’t like the changes there and constantly complain about them in articles or youtube, yet it is the only way they insist on engaging with their followers still.
The thing about Mastodon and Lemmy to users who exclusively use those sites is they are themselves a bubble. There are weeks I spend most of my web activity on kbin, and would believe reddit is on its death spiral. Yet I peak over there, and it’s about as active as when I left it. I even see articles about reddit or twitters activity recovering that I never see get shared here, because at the end of the day, the narrative we want to hear is “Corporate site is dying, we are the future!”
@Roundcat @chiz @Chozo I know! And I mostly agree. I don’t go to Reddit, unless I get a link from there but I do sometimes go to Twitter bc I had 30K+ folks I knew there, and I miss them. It rly is dying tho. Nothing but Nazis screaming bile, and stuff doesn’t work half the time. The bile is acceptable, but not working? Nobody pays for stuff that don’t work. Not for long.
I think Reddit will still be around, but when it comes to Twitter, the acquisition saddled the company with billions in debt amounting to around a billion in yearly interest repayment. Twitter already was barely making ends meet before that, and it only lost revenue for all the stupid decisions being made. Even if it was exactly as profitable as before, it wouldn’t be enough anymore.
One day Twitter is simply going to stop working, or close off so much it becomes unusable, unless Musk personally tries to keep it afloat at expense of his own fortune, or someone is dumb enough to buy it off of him and do the same.
I also see a lot of wishful thinking in the Fediverse, but this is not the case here. People there may not want to move on, but it’s not gonna keep it afloat. I already see a lot of people making their escape plans and linking alternative platforms every day.
“Arr, this ❌ marks where I buried 44 billion doubloons!”
*billion
Que?
alright now we’re gonna have quite a big discussion as to what “x server” means. x11? twitter?
“guys x servers are down!”
“have you checked your .xinitrc? did you start x?”
“whats an x innit racecar? the x servers are down!”
“how do you use x without knowing what an .xinitrc is… oh”
meanwhile reddit gonna rename themselves to “wayland”
Before merging with Yutani?
Reddit rebranding to “Y” because that’s what we say when they do changes.
I mean, Debian setup setting up .xinitrc for me on my computer has made me not need to know what it is. I think I should.
I forgot too. I use Wayland now anyway
Space-X, X AE A-12, trying to create a company named X since the 90’s…
guys, I think elon musk is obsessed with Speed Racers Racer X. Why else would X be such a prominent motivator for this creature?
Any theories? Deal with the devil made at a crossroads? Or maybe he just was really used to railroad crossing signs as a kid and wants to relive those memories?
You know I had something typed up debating this, but being obsessed with Racer X does explain his family abandonment.
X is the naughty letter (rated X) in S3XY which is also the four tesla car model letter. 12 year old humor.
Final fantasy X.
Wants to relive the 90s.
@chiz X is so easy to search in internet. So many results; it gets never boring! Very unique name and brand.
Spez: Write it down, write it down! Let’s rename Reddit to Z! Employee: Why Z? Spez: What do you mean why? Does X make any sense to you too? Employee: All right, I should have never questioned you.
Z, because the “Spe” was just an afterthought this whole time…
pardon me… I have been laughing so hard reading this thread, it was the best I could come up with! 😂
It’s like B, C, D, V, R in programming… If Reddit took X++ and someone else took X#, the unsearchable name trifecta would be complete!
.net is even worse.
Crying in former COM programming hell
What’s V? I don’t see it on the list. X++ is already taken, though… but I see a huge potential in Y*.
I don’t remember exactly what it is, all i remember is there’s a unix-like operating system written in it
V. There is also Vale, which was originally named VLang.
but Y
Let them B
K, guess we’ll C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLpCZH3HTAQ
That’ll solve all the problems.
What a fucking stupid move. And that’s saying something at this point.
This is more baffling than accidentally destroying the brand, like he’s been doing.
It’s like he can’t destroy his company fast enough😂
Yeah this really makes sure Twitter will be x’ed.
He really put afterburner on that dumpster fire.
There is 0% chance this man is neither on drugs nor having a severe mental breakdown.
There are speculations he is under a very severe mid-life crisis.
What if he’s always been like this but just had the money to hide it?
He seems to have had some lucky moves, and the whole “Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Boring” still look like a decent combo.
Everything else, looks like what someone with DGAF money would do to pass the time. At least he’s not going on a safari collecting trophies, or something.
simpsons did it first