this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
1045 points (95.9% liked)

Technology

59738 readers
3164 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does anyone care anymore ?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is one of the richest people in the world.

The more news about billionaires like this pop up, the easier it will be to argue that maaaaaaaybe we shouldn't be giving them that much power in society.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This just makes him more famous and more powerful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I think ridicule is the most powerful weapon against billionaires, and all these articles do is create and spread more ridicule. There comes a point where bad advertisement is just bad advertisement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How much more powerful can he be? He'd be more powerful if he was more subtle about stuff and people weren't ready to fight against him.

It's much better to effectively use him as an argument for why billionaires shouldn't exist. Fuel for the fire of change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No it doesn't. His would that even work? Please explain

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I do. I don't care about twitter itself but this slow moving train wreck is still fun to watch.