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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20134417
I can't imagine being able to travel the world at my leisure eating the finest foods mankind has to offer and saving millions of lives through charitable donations and yet wasting my life, money, and time picking losing fights with governments while defending indefensible shitbags on the internet.
Must just be something about billionaires I don't understand π€·ββοΈ
Billionairism is a serious disease.
It's like hoarding. Surprised Elon isn't more emotionally stricken when he loses gobs of ~~money~~ self worth score.
So hitting him in his bank account is how to get him to do your bidding? So let's impose some more embargos and demand his account be banned for lies.
Rocket Kiko is such a wimp he cares about a tiny amount like this, when he's the richest child in the world.
I think his ego is at least as much of a factor. Even before he bought Twitter, it was well known that he was probably going to lose money, because the value was inflated. But his ego made him go through with it, and of course he's lost a lot of money there.
Similarly, when users are moving to other social media, I don't think he's looking at the associated price tag. After all, he knows how to increase advertising revenue on Twitter. All he needs to do is get rid of the neo-nazis and the racists, and some of his former large advertisers might come back. But he won't do it because he doesn't want to be pushed around, and he also probably likes the neo-nazis and the racists.
There are many quiet ultra rich people who are mostly aiming at getting a lot of money and keeping it, and then there are vocal for rich people who want to show off their power along with their money. Our boy here is in the latter category.
It's pretty sad that the new users are going to Threads, when the Fediverse without Facebook control is right here.
The masses aren't ready yet. Hell, I'm a technical person and can't figure out for the life of me why the mastodon instance I'm on can see some things from another instance but not other things. To see the things I want on pixelfed I've got to have multiple accounts on multiple servers.
I obviously like the fediverse. I'm here on multiple services. But let's not pretend that any idiot can figure out which instance to sign up for and just automatically see all the things they want to see and talk to all the people they want to talk to.
It warms my calloused, embittered heart to see this.
But heβs a brilliant businessman. /s
You love to see it.
I love how this story converges with this community's logo