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[–] 27 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Participating in an Elon ran version of Reddit sounds just as fun as being launched into the sun would be

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago*

    Twitter communities have been around a good while. As in, I even wrote a search app that found new communities as people created them, and people used my app (and other apps) for about a year or so, and then eventually Twitter added that functionality themselves, so I deprecated my app, and then about year or so later, Elon bought Twitter and communities died from lack of use/ support.

    In other words, this was around for a while before Elon.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago

    As if the average reddit user would fall for this, Twitter is awful.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    I guess if you were looking for a platform that is run by a large man child, is somehow on shakier ground than Reddit, and will suck then this is good news?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    And on the same day when they fucked up their infrastructure so badly that they had to rate-limit all users. Yeah, okay Elon, you can host my community for me.

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

    I love how all mainstream platforms keep mimicking each other to become exact copies of one another. I wonder if there was a way for platforms to collaborate with each other and interconnect somehow rather than duplicating efforts by copying all features from all other platforms? 🤔

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Some sort of protocol to publish activity?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    If you go for this your dumber than the average bear. Lest we forget, Twitter pioneered screwing over third party devs, twice! Once back in 2012 and then more recently

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    Lol no thanks.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    They can't handle Twitter and they want to reboot reddit?

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

    It warms my heart that Twitter spent millions developing a product that will never take off ❤️

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Google+ could have been amazing. It did so much right compared to the others.

    No activity whatsoever on it though

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    As someone who moderated several G+ communities, it had plenty of activity - spam. For whatever reason Google's own filters didn't catch it well and it'd all go to the mods. Also it didn't have much discussion. Just sharing links and reacting. Got boring real fast.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Look at that, spez's idol being opportunistic against him. Dumbass.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago*

    I'm part of the F-Zero Twitter community and the most action it gets is from bots that somehow break into the invite only community. (Thanks Elon)

    It's a cool idea but suffers from the same kind of insulation of discord, which end up running counter to the openness twitter got popular for.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    the last place I would want to chat would be with a twitter group

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    twitler can eat an entire bag of dicks

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Haha and to think Spez tried to suck Musk's dick a week ago during one of his interviews.

    As if the people fleeing reddit's API lockdown would have any interest in this.

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

    Joke’s on them. I left Twitter months ago.

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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    The kind of people still left on Twitter are not the people I want to be sharing a reddit-like community with

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Imagine getting schooled on his to run your social media compant by Elon Musk...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Also on the same day that they block people from viewing tweets without logging in. No thanks.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Twitter is a shitty platform especially after it was taken by Elon. No way I'm going there for community-based discussions.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Right now, they can't even maintain their Infrastructure because Elon Musk fired more than half of the employees, how will they be able to maintain this?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The free market fosters innovation.

    The invitation:

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Nothing about that sounds inviting or intriguing. They can keep that shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Oh now this is fascinating. Especially after spez has been sucking Musty’s dick. He is such a pick-me.

    I’m about to grab all kinds of gourmet popcorn to watch the train wrecks coming from these CEOs.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    As much as I hate twitter this is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I’m not going to use it but I understand the business decision. What would make it even better is if they also announced an open API to use it. But they already cut that thread.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Twitter is as bad as the reddit app with its ads, no thanks.

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