• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    People finally leaving Twitter en masse?

    Great, glad ya’ll finally got the memo.

    Anyway, Elon and his cronies have haphazardly taken over basically every single civillian Federal Government computer system, while everyone was struggling with the extreme potential inconvenience of not using a social media platform run by and for fucking Nazis.

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    7 hours ago

    Sure it is. Will believe it when I see it. Too many people are far too happy to ignore the Nazi and suck at his teet.

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      5 hours ago

      I’ve been using Bluesky. It has gotten a lot busier since Musk did the Nazi Salute

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, the issue with Bluesky is that it’s just shifting the problem from one oligarch-owned service to another. Mastodon would have been a much better choice, but Bluesky had an algorithmic feed like Xitter so that’s what people flocked to.

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        5 hours ago

        Blocking and muting, detaching your post from quote posts, and hiding replies all make Bluesky a much saner place.

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    7 hours ago

    This feels like wishcasting. As long as they can fake their numbers, I guess it doesn’t really matter because nobody calls anyone out on anything.

    Tesla’s stock price seems unaffected by Musk bullshitting the most recent earnings call, or not enough to matter. Its still above $400 a share and this is after he finally admitted current hardware can’t actually do FSD.

    The market is full-on irrational and invested in being irrational. Capital always aligns with fascism in the end. They will believe the bogus metrics fed by these companies for their “engagement.” The same people who fell prey to Elizabeth Holmes can’t see that all those profiles on Facebook and X are AI generated and automated.

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      40 minutes ago

      I got into an argument tonight with someone. They tried to argue against my comment. “The entirety of the stock market is speculation”. They didn’t get very far.

      I was trying to explain exactly this to them. The market is irrational and wrong.

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        @SatanClaus @SnotFlickerman
        There’s a big hand in all capital markets.
        All the wealth in the world is in the hands of a few people
        When investing in stocks, we tend to focus on the interest returns, but the big capitalists focus on our capital.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s kind of fine if it becomes just another Truth social though, isn’t it? Kind of a containment zone. The big problem is if it’s the one place where everyone is.

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        6 hours ago

        It’s good to have competition anyway. Twitter was getting too popular. There should be lots of options. Even if some of those options cater to a specific crowd. MAGAs, teens, people who think Tiananmen Square is just a geographical location.

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      3 hours ago

      Reddit has lots of “activity”, from many different “accounts”, saying lots of “different” things. [wink]