IBM, Lionsgate, the European Union, and, reportedly, Apple, have all pulled advertising from X following Elon Musk’s apparent endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Experts say it could soon get much worse.
  • theodewere@kbin.social
    191·
    10 months ago

    why did it take IBM and Apple so long to figure out which song was playing on the juke box here

    • s_s@lemmy.one
      2·
      10 months ago

      Apple still has no problem pumping this to hundreds of millions of people through their app store for a 30% cut.

      Do they really care?

      Pull the app.

  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
    192·
    10 months ago

    Time to create that Mastodon account you have been meaning to, the dual post for a while until your network is established and then delete X.

    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
      202·
      10 months ago

      Some people seem to bounce off Mastodon, saying that it doesn’t have the content that they were looking for. I’d suggest that it probably does have the content that you are looking for, but you can’t expect instantly see everything you are looking for from a fresh account.

      People have spent years building up their twitter feeds; finding the people they like to follow, and browsing for new things, getting recommendations, and removing they stuff they don’t like. You can’t expect to match that level of content 10 mins after signing up on Mastodon. You will have to look around and tell it what you want to see before it will be what you want it to be.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
        151·
        10 months ago

        The difference is that Twitter has suggestions and algorithms to help you find your way around. Mastodon is all manual.

  • donuts@kbin.social
    51·
    10 months ago

    So they always say… and then keep reading and posting tweets all day every day.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      10 months ago

      3 times, but he has to do it in front of a mirror. When he was about to do the third time he renamed it, thus resetting the counter.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    53·
    10 months ago

    X I don’t care about.

    Not seeing this shit in my feed constantly, now that would be nice.

    • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      You can always just add his name as a filtering keyword. Tools are available to help you.

      • evranch@lemmy.ca
        0·
        10 months ago

        Starship launch tomorrow though, wouldn’t want to miss out on hype because of something titled “Elon Musk’s Starship Rocket” etc… I’m a big space nerd and while Elon is a dork this rocket will be a massive leap for everything space related if it works out.

        Fuck X/Twitter though, sick of hearing about it for sure. I’ve heard rumours that SpaceX only does as well as they do because they have Shotwell running the show and they have Elon wranglers to keep him away from anything important…

        • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
          01·
          10 months ago

          Thanks for sharing. Feel free to blame Musk. He’s the one who renamed it to X, which is impossible to filter out.

          • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
            0·
            10 months ago

            You could filter out Twitter and realistically filter out a large chunk of them. Shit’s usually referred to “X, formerly known as Twitter…” in most posts I see.

            • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              Could just make a lemmy-wide rule to always deadname it in post titles. But good luck with that since people still won’t put it all in enoughmuskspam.

  • blackbrook@mander.xyz
    1·
    10 months ago

    Is that beard to make him look younger? Because it looks like that beard you sometimes see on young guys figuring out that they can’t really grow a decent beard…

  • fosforus@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    10 months ago

    Hasn’t he blurted out stupid stuff his whole career without it causing any negative effects? Seems like that’s his thing and it seems like it’s been working for him pretty well. At least until now.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
    01·
    10 months ago

    You think Saudi Arabia is just going to let their toy collapse? They shit the money it takes to run that site every day.