Skiluros

Elon Musk is a true degenerate (in the dictionary definition of the term, not as a generic insult).

Ugh…

Respect to Andrea Sella. Musk is definitely a fascist oligarch, if not a Nazi.

I like the classic Elmo “Pedo Guy” Musk.

Considering the premeditated attempts to mortally harm people via the disorderly shutting down of the USAID, we should be aiming beyond prison.

30 years community service as a live-in junior janitor at an infectious disease hospital in Laos with heavily restricted access to communication devices. Musk will be required to work hard and with absolute commitment to his junior janitor position.

Additionally all his assets should be seized and requiring anyone who interacted with Musk to sign an affadavid stating that if they are in any way caught hiding money for Musk, they took will doing a 30 year community service program and have all their assets seized. Affidavit would be valid for life.

No fun until it’s under 100 and stablely decreasing.

Good to hear!

Yes, I do think (hope?) that will be another migration wave. Hopefully one that can kickstart organic double digit YoY MAU growth as well as getting total MAUs over 100K.

I agree. That’s why I’ve largely moved off reddit and deleted my twitter accounts.

I would even go as far as saying that the architecture of the fediverse with multiple instances, multiple platforms (Lemmy vs. Piefed vs. Mbin) and multiple frontends has the potential to offer more innovation, a better user experience and better content/communities.

But that being said user growth (via a competitive federated model) is necessary.

It would enable expanded coverage of niche topics of interests and other languages. Potentially more funding for development and administration.

But the most important point is that it would allow the global community to take back digital social interaction from the criminal oligarchs, the marketers and shills and undermine nation state digital propaganda and subversion efforts.

I am talking in abstract, aspirational terms, but still, from my perspective this is all part of getting quality content/discussions.

The sad thing is that even with all these scandals, MAU/DAU growth in the threadiverse is flat.

Wow, this is actual degeneracy.

Twitter seems to be in (early phases) of a terminal decline. Advertisers (in the US?) might try to suck up to Musk for political reasons but at the end of the day they want a return on marketing spend.

Getting government services and public institutions off Twitter is a good initiative. Albeit in many countries, Twitter never really had the same impact as in the US. Where I live, Telegram is the source for notifications, updates and news.

Some of Musk’s products already have a stigma attached to them. Considering Musk’s degeneracy seems to be accelerating, I will speculate this will only get worse.

The people who are not comfortable with Musk and his plutocracy have left or will eventually leave his companies. The rest don’t care and arguably their attitude is part of the problem as well.

It will likely take a rather significant change in social attitudes (in the US, but not only) towards oligarchs and corruption to make Musk and other oligarchs take responsibility for their actions and to send them to jail.

The above-mentioned point will take time and if anything it looks like it’s only going to get worse (global rise of right wing movements supporting corruption and oligarchs). The silver lining is that eventually such systems start to implode due to their internal contradictions. Our current institutions (political, regulatory, economic, social) are simply not suited to the complexity and global nature of modern business, the externalities inherent to the information age and the challenges of our time. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” I don’t intend to defeatist, on the contrary, I am pointing out that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It just might take a lot of time (and suffering) to get there.

Elmo “Pedoguy” Musk.