Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps…

  • ArugulaZ
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    951 year ago

    Funny, knowing Elon, I assumed he would have gone with a whites only mode.

  • Rottcodd
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    431 year ago

    It’s like a 15 year old got ahold of his mom’s credit card and bought a social media corporation, and now he’s up in his room, all juiced up on Doritos and Mountain Dew, banging away at his keyboard and giggling to himself.

    • PupBiru
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      141 year ago

      mark is a robot, elon is a 15 year old, both wearing grown up suits! all signs point to yes tbh

    • blivet
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      131 year ago

      I was thinking pretty much the same thing. He’s got the sensibility of a teenage boy. He thinks things like the letter X and the color black are totally cool, and he thinks naming his company “Space-Sex” and one of its spacecraft “Big Fuckin’ Rocket” is the height of humor.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        11 year ago

        I think black is cool. But only because I’m lazy and it by default looks good with every other color and doesn’t clash.

    • ArugulaZ
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      41 year ago

      His parents should have been a little firmer with him. “Young man, I don’t want to see you on that computer until your comedy is at least at a Colbert level!”

    • Xeelee
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      31 year ago

      Spot on. He’s been spending far too much time on 4chan.

  • Big P
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    201 year ago

    Someone please make a lemmy client with a word filtering option so I can stop hearing about elmo

    • stopthatgirl7OP
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      171 year ago

      Or just scroll past things you don’t want to read about? That is a very viable option.

        • Madbrad200
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          1 year ago

          There’s plenty of communities on Lemmy that don’t discuss Elon at all. Curate your own homefeed

          • Zima
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            1 year ago

            are there any communities that discuss technology advancements ? I can’t find any sub for technology enthusiasts.

            edit: ah gotcha you’re just telling him to go away while trying to sound reasonable.

            • Itty53
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              11 year ago

              You and the other guy both sound like you’re whining that free content isn’t being catered to your every taste for you when you have every tool at your disposal to curate your own content.

              Y’all are entitled as shit.

              • Zima
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                21 year ago

                You might want to start paying more attention to what people say instead of focusing on how it makes you feel when you participate in an argument.

                • Itty53
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                  11 year ago

                  I thought about it.

                  Y’all are entitled as shit.

        • stopthatgirl7OP
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          11 year ago

          Unless every finger on your hand is broken, it’s always viable. And if every finger is broken, I’m pretty sure you’ve got bigger problems.

    • crowsby
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      I can do you one better with a Tampermonkey script that will replace every reference to his name on every webpage to either “the biggest twat on the planet” or “this dipshit”, depending on which works better syntactically.

      // ==UserScript==
      // @name         Text Replace
      // @version      0.1
      // @description  Text Replace
      // @author       SiameseDream
      // @include     *
      // @grant        none
      // @namespace beepboop
      // ==/UserScript==
      
      (function() {
          'use strict';
      
      var replaceArry = [
          [/ Elon Musk/gi,' the biggest twat on the planet'],
          [/Elon Musk/gi,'The biggest twat on the planet'],
          [/ Mr. Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
          [/ Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
          [/Mr. Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
          [/Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
          // etc.
      ];
      var numTerms    = replaceArry.length;
      var txtWalker   = document.createTreeWalker (
          document.body,
          NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
          {   acceptNode: function (node) {
                  //-- Skip whitespace-only nodes
                  if (node.nodeValue.trim() )
                      return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;
      
                  return NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP;
              }
          },
          false
      );
      var txtNode     = null;
      
      while (txtNode  = txtWalker.nextNode () ) {
          var oldTxt  = txtNode.nodeValue;
      
          for (var J  = 0;  J < numTerms;  J++) {
              oldTxt  = oldTxt.replace (replaceArry[J][0], replaceArry[J][1]);
          }
          txtNode.nodeValue = oldTxt;
      }
      })();
      
      

      In practice it looks like this

    • FaceDeer
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      61 year ago

      Why didn’t you downvote this thread? In kbin I can see who downvoted it and you’re not there.

      • Big P
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        21 year ago

        Because the downvote button isn’t for what I personally don’t want to see, it’s for what isn’t relevant. As much as I don’t want to see this, it is technology

    • lowdownfool
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      41 year ago

      Options that empower you:

      • Downvote button
      • Ignore button
      • Unsubscribe button
      • Big P
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        21 year ago

        Downvoting is kind of unfair because it is technology based, ignore button just ignores that specific post, unsubscribe unsubscribes me from all technology posts which I don’t want

  • Ertebolle
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    191 year ago

    Cool, can’t wait until they ban the use of the letter ‘e’ for non-verified users and wii all hav to wrayt layk this

      • Sinnerman
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        11 year ago

        I was initially excited to hear about the Oulipo community, but they seem to have an very limited take on what Oulipo is/was. There is a lot more to Oulipo than lipograms (avoiding a character) as even the Wikipedia page says.

          • Sinnerman
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            11 year ago

            The whole point of Oulipo is “the seeking of new structures and patterns”.

            Constraints inspire creativity, so let’s come up with new constraints.

            If you only allow one structure/constraint, that’s the opposite of what Oulipo is about.

            Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
            “Oulipo Compendium” is a fun book if you can find it.
            Motte’s “Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature” is OK but a bit dry. Looks like there’ve been a couple new surveys recently too.

            The mastodon community Oulipo.social only allows one structure/constraint, so it’s not that interesting. If you know of any good Oulipo communities in the fediverse, I’d be thrilled to hear about them.

  • @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    I’m dark mode everything, everywhere, but options are good and taking away options is bad. If people want to sear their retinas by using light mode, they should be able to.

    • stopthatgirl7OP
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      211 year ago

      I use light mode because dark mode is far more likely to trigger migraines in me. This is legit an accessibility issue, and he fired the entire accessibility team.

      • thingsiplay
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        101 year ago

        @stopthatgirl7 I also often use light mode on most websites. Since 2 years or so I started using dark mode on several applications or websites as well, but most dark modes suck. Some give me headache or burn my eyes.

        Taking the option is really an accessibility issue. Elon tries every trick under the sun to destroy the platform, in ways I could not imagine or forgot. I’m sure there will pop up addons for browsers at least to change the style. Everyone else, good luck.

        • phi1997
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          The thing is, I don’t think he’s deliberately trying to destroy the birdsite. He’s exhibiting the same mentality as the billionaire who got himself and a few others to die in a faulty submersible. He thinks he knows better than everyone but is completely out of touch from reality because his money usually shields him from consequences.

          Elon Musk is just an idiot. A useful idiot to those who fund him like the Saudis, but an idiot all the same.

        • Alaknar
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          51 year ago

          Try the “Dark Reader” plugin (works for all chromium-based browsers and Firefox - at least). It lets you customise the “darkness” of the dark mode to your hearts content. I have most of my sites set up so that they’re more “very dark grey” rather than black.

          Doesn’t always work nicely, some sites get their images mangled, or the text will get a weird shade that makes it illegible, but overall, it’s great. And you probably can fix most of these issues by tweaking the filter settings.

          • thingsiplay
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            21 year ago

            @Alaknar I actually used that mentioned plugin (on Firefox) for a month or so. But embarrassingly forgot why removing it later. That one is actually a good point, as it exists today.

      • HopeOfTheGunblade
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        41 year ago

        Yeah light mode doesn’t work for me but why in the name of the gods would I want that to mean it’s not an option for other people? Compulsory light mode is bad. Compulsory dark mode is bad. But Elon seems to have incredible trouble believing other people are a thing to model, let alone actually doing the modelling. It sucks, and I am sorrowful for people like you and thingsiplay for having the internet get less useful for you and having this dipshit providing a bad example for other people with too much power and too little wisdom.

  • wave_walnut
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    41 year ago

    I have a suggestion for him: wouldn’t it be a development cost savings if Twitter just provided an API and users could see it on their own clients?

    • TheSaneWriterA
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      21 year ago

      That would require Elon to give up control, so I’m guessing it’s gonna be a no from him.

  • doctortofu
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    21 year ago

    Hasn’t it been in dork mode for a while now? Oh wait, I misread… ;)

  • mihies
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    21 year ago

    He already backtracked because of public outrage, dark will be default, light will be an option, dim black (or whatever it was called) is no more. Like 15hrs later. Yet another clueless idiotic decision that backfired…

  • Archmage Azor
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    11 year ago

    Musk continues to make decisions that he thinks are cool but nobody asks for

  • kratoz29
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    11 year ago

    Huh, I guess app users are fucked, but what for the website I bet there would be workarounds.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      11 year ago

      Yup. You can’t stop a browser that has the capability to pick and choose what elements it downloads, and can also insert its own.

  • jimbolauski
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    11 year ago

    JFC guys, for a group that says that don’t like musk you sure think about him alot.

      • ArugulaZ
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        121 year ago

        Seriously. People were talking about Jeffrey Dahmer a lot in 1991, but there weren’t any contrarian pimple-dicks jumping out of the bushes and shouting “He’s living rent-free inside your head!” Dahmer was news. People tend to think about recent events.

    • TwilightVulpine
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      91 year ago

      Gee, I wonder why. Could the fact that he keeps making unpopular changes to one of the largest social media platforms out there have anything to do with it? Nah, those hundreds of millions of people just don’t like his face or whatever.

      • kamenoko
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        21 year ago

        That ignoring demagogues doesn’t in fact make them stop acting like demagogues.

    • Xeelee
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      41 year ago

      Unfortunately, billionaires have an outsize influence on the lives of regular people. Like this shitstain buying one of the most important social media properties in the world and turning it into a safe space for fascists. He’s contributing to the downfall of human civilization and we absolutely need to talk about that.

    • mayooooo
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      11 year ago

      We don’t like eating shit but when we’re forced to it’s the only thing we can think about.