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Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” (arstechnica.com)
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[+] 153 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (33 children)
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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    Gotta respect that double spacing. 👍

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    I don't get it, what double spacing?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    The double spaces between sentences. Tbh, it is kinda nice for readability.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    OK that doesn't show here (Firefox on Linux), I actually copied the text into an editor, and searched for double spaces, and none were found.
    Tried another Browser Falkon which uses QtWebEngine, and there are no doublespaces there either.
    So apparently some browsers render Lemmy posts differently.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Browsers collapse whitespace unless told not to by the webpage CSS. I'm not using a browser though, I'm using Boost for Lemmy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Huh, I thought Markdown basically just ignored all extra whitespace

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Alternative conspiracy theory, he got paid to do that, as twitter even with all the bad things was a political tool against fascism and misinformation.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Frankly there is no alternate conspiracy that can make this make sense. Even if the point is destroying Twitter, why does he have to be the one to personally take the reputation hit? He could downright hire some celebrity CEO to say and do all the shit he wants done, get all the flak while he relaxes on a yacht. There may or may not be backroom deals but he's still being a chump for exposing himself like that. His business are taking hits because he's seen as increasingly unreliable.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even if he loses al his companies he still has money to live on that yacht for the rest of his life,(doubt it as USA is practically funding him), he is a narcissist he wants the attention, he wants people talking about him.

    But any guess is as good as mine, maybe he is the Manchurian candidate maybe not.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I really don’t understand this take at all. He just seems like a straight up fool to me. Even if he was coerced into destroying Twitter, why do people seriously go, “Oh no! There is literally nowhere else to have these kinds of discussions or rallying!” When there are in fact PLENTY and could even be MADE for these kinds of situations? Look at the Fediverse for example, but why stop there? You’ve got other silly social media sites that can be used the same way if someone actually tried hard enough. If those don’t work out, you can always find a way IF you truly do care enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I really don’t understand this take at all.

    Reddit just like Lemmy it's not an accurate representation of reality, yes you are all tech experts, you use Linux and Lemmy, opensource software and hate the system, the average citizen uses windows, spends his time on TikTok, meta or whatever, they will use whatever is convenient for them.

    if someone actually tried hard enough.

    People try hard enough all the time, just not in your virtual bubble.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Twitter has roughly 240 million daily users, about half of whom are from USA. It might be a bit early to call it a ruined company.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    By comparison Lemmy has 30,000 active users and steadily dropping.

    It's actually pretty funny how much of an echo chamber Lemmy can be. All I see is positive comments about how Lemmy is so great and growing, and Twitter is dead! Meanwhile it's the opposite. Twitter is still very much alive, and Lemmy is becoming a small cul-de-sac echo chamber.

    My Lemmy app lets me tag people, which I use to tag people who are rude to others, nice to me, helpful, racist, etc, just so I can remember who was nice and who wasn't nice to interact with, and I literally see the same handful of people in every thread, and the front page of "everything" is filled with the same people making every thread.

    Same with Reddit. We all thought Reddit was dead, and, well.. it isn't. Some days I really regret getting IP banned for shilling out Lemmy. Plenty of communities I really miss from Reddit that just simply won't work on Lemmy, because of how Lemmy is so FOSS centric.

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