… it’s very likely that Elon Musk has flushed at least $30 Billion down the toilet with his mismanagement of Twitter. I hope it was fun for him.
intercst
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Threads will be a part of the Fediverse or Mastodon which is less than 2 million active users. Meaning Threads sinks the independence or scope of Mastodon by a very large factor.
The eventual threads instance of Mastodon will be controlled by Meta. This means ads can run in the Fediverse. If Threads is kicked out of the Fediverse so what? Most of the Fediverse right now is Threads. The working instance is coming.
What’s the relation between Zuckerberg’s Threads and Elon’s Twitter? I must have missed something somewhere.
The Captain
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Threads is a Twitter Clone mated to Meta’s 3 billion strong subscriber base. No doubt a lawsuit has already been filed. Scott Galloway, the NYU marketing professor thinks Twitter is dead in 30 days. Start at 24:30 in video at link.
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Thanks!
The Captain
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And probably reached what ever fastest milestone for censorship.
^ Interesting video.
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Of course Meta is doing content moderation and “censorship”. They’re trying to maintain a platform that will appeal to large advertisers like Procter & Gamble. Meta is acting to maximize their profits.
Musk appears to be operating Twitter without any commercial concerns. Most of his actions to date have alienated both advertisers and users. A platform optimized for Tech Bros and Incels is going to attract a much smaller audience.
intercst
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Musk is running Twitter the way he thinks it ought to be run, not how things work in real life. He thinks it should be subscription based. But if your business model relies your uses creating free content, then you can’t charge users to create that content because you’ll only get crappy material.
Similarly, Musk is big on the free speech component. But if you business model is selling ads along side that free content, then that content has to be acceptable to major advertisers. That means you have to limit the NeoNazi conspiracy stuff as best you can.
You can say what you want about the Zuck, but he knows how to sell ads on social media.
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I don’t have a dog in this fight. I don’t use Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. Or Threads.
But I do enjoy a bit of billionaire on billionaire grudge match fighting. Makes great entertainment. 
–Peter
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Not as good as a submersible.
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I really like that!
david fb
There is no such thing as free speech with for profit companies. Free Speech only exist as it pertains to government censorship, not censorship by corporations.
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Correction, Musk is big on “Musk approved” speech. If he does not like what you say on twitter, he will ban/block you. Twitter still has censorship, just of a different (and more draconian) sort.
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Yup! Anyone who ever truly thought Musk did this for “free speech” have been duped.
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Only a government can do censorship like banning books.
What we have here is spanking crazy crybabies.
Crazy as in says the obnoxious offensive thing and thinking that is brilliant. Oh you mean that does not belong? No it is martyrdom as in throwing the proverbial at the wall until the bigger ejits believe.
True leadership and the witch hunts.
I wish we were burning warlocks.
Ayup. I have told the story before, about the RS District Manager, who started telling we store managers about the “open door policy”, and a wave of laffing swept over the room. The DM said “don’t you believe in the open door policy?” We all answered “NO!”, because we has all seen the reaction by management, when someone said something management didn’t want to hear.
Steve
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From July 11th:
Well, that was 71 days ago. I wouldn’t recommend taking a class from Mr. Galloway.
DB2
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30 days was wishful thinking. But if Musk does start charging all uses, bye bye Twitter. Personally, I’m surprised its still going.
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As is Galloway.
However, X currently has some 238 million monthly active users.
DB2
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