X apparently added 5-second delay for links to sites Musk doesn’t like
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The eventual autopsy/biography of this debacle should be titled How to abuse your userbase and destroy a platform in 10 easy steps
What a petty small little man Melon Mush is. He's revealed himself to be a cruel, vindictive, selfish, egotistical, manipulative, dishonest charlatan
What a petty small little man Melon Mush is. He's revealed himself to be a cruel, vindictive, selfish, egotistical, manipulative, dishonest charlatan
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I have never, nor thought I ever would, see someone with so much money and power act like such an imbecile day in and day out in a massively public spectacle.
Interesting.
One of the major benefits of having money is paying people to make you look good. This is Wealth 101.
Interesting.
One of the major benefits of having money is paying people to make you look good. This is Wealth 101.
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It says a lot about Twitter/X’s confidence (or lack thereof) that their own product can compete with those platforms they are trying to suppress.
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Why are there still people using it? Just leave. I have not logged into it once since he took over.
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Paying people? He has an army of simps boosting his ego for free.
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We like to joke about being "terminally online," but I think the term is probably accurate in Musk's case. He fell so far down the alt-right Twitter vortex that they're literally the only people he'll take advice from any more, even grossly to his own detriment.
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Stifling access to other sites is just Musk exercising his freedom of speech. /sarcasm
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This is exactly the kind of childish, petty behavior I fully expect from Musk these days. I can't take him or anything to do with him seriously at all anymore.
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Why not? Elon Musk has already proven that he could do whatever he wants and rename Twitter "Turd Sandwich," and most people would still come back and use it.
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Before the Musk simps come racing in (and they'll do this anyway), let's all agree that yes, Musk has every right to actually do this with his own company. That does not mean that it's not an asshole move made by a petulant child in a flabby man's body.
Now expect people to still come into this thread with "HE'S GOT A RIGHT TO DO THIS!" complaints every 4th page.
Now expect people to still come into this thread with "HE'S GOT A RIGHT TO DO THIS!" complaints every 4th page.
Yeah, various news agencies are flailing at what to actually call it. No one will ever just say X. It's entirely too non-descript. I've also seen "X social media company". Which is funny, as it's over twice as long as "Twitter". But yeah, Musk's master plan of just naming something X has run face first into the stop trying to make fetch happen conundrum.
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Elon is projecting so hard I half expect his shitty X logo to get beamed onto the surface of the fucking moon.
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Do let us know when they get back to you so we can see what they mean by "soon."Jon Brodkin said:
I note that instead of using an internal X-Com domain, they've farmed the media relations to some Twitter company. (Or is that a mail hosting solution?) It seems a bit dodgy, if you ask me.
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These sorts of things hint at what an Elon (or people he supports) would act like in government.
No integrity, no honesty and in many regards, no real sense of community.
Certainly not true supporter of anything like a truly free and equitable democracy.
Elon is, in essence, doing these destructive things to himself - imagine what he'd do to you.
No integrity, no honesty and in many regards, no real sense of community.
Certainly not true supporter of anything like a truly free and equitable democracy.
Elon is, in essence, doing these destructive things to himself - imagine what he'd do to you.
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And that's great! The Douchebaggins clan is an honorable family from the shire, and in no way should you be associated with Elon Musk! Live proudly and do not let your name be besmirched.
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This is so dumb and petty that despite knowing how dumb and petty he is it is still almost unbelievable that this was done on purpose rather than it being caused by some kind of coding screw up. Almost.
It can't just be X and be meaningful. It needs to have a noun or something attached to it - like X-Windows or DrainX or the X-games. "X" by itself is just so meaningless as to kind of make you try to fill in the gaps yourself.
(Calling it X-social is actually my preferred one. Because it actually also serves as a description of how I use Twitter - I used to, but now I don't. And I'm honestly surprised he hasn't grabbed the domain name for x.social.)
"Brand X" is literally the term for something generic that many of us old people grew up with. And by old people I mean people who are a few years younger than Musk like me.
It can't just be X and be meaningful. It needs to have a noun or something attached to it - like X-Windows or DrainX or the X-games. "X" by itself is just so meaningless as to kind of make you try to fill in the gaps yourself.
(Calling it X-social is actually my preferred one. Because it actually also serves as a description of how I use Twitter - I used to, but now I don't. And I'm honestly surprised he hasn't grabbed the domain name for x.social.)
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For someone who also reads mandarin and Japanese part of the web, I can assure you that everyone still uses the word Twitter, possible for a very very long time.
The main problem remains that when trying to say the action, tweet rolls off the tongue in those languages, and X is hard to say. Without an easily pronounceable verb, Twitter will continue to be Twitter.
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Just got introduced to YouTube's lame "no suggestions if history is off" feature.
The reoccurring theme with sites now seems to be "We'll show you what you ask for, but in the manner we decide. We'll lessen your experience if you don't play the way we want you to. Oh, remember to Like and Subscribe!"
The reoccurring theme with sites now seems to be "We'll show you what you ask for, but in the manner we decide. We'll lessen your experience if you don't play the way we want you to. Oh, remember to Like and Subscribe!"
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I honestly wonder how many websites were actually put into that little “timeout”. We know a lot of the big ones, but there may be more that just weren’t tested. Then again, the thought has crossed my mind that there was some insider info being given out about this. As for the actual impact of this in however many sites were affected, if anyone thinks it’s not a big deal, Google estimates that pages that a website that takes even three seconds to load lose 53% of views. This was 5 seconds before the page even started loading. That’s obviously going to do some harm, and there’s no indication that it isn’t the site causing the problem (which is the point).
There was some more technical discussion in the Lounge thread on this topics, but it revolved around the issue being one with Twitter checking if you have cookies (if you clicked on a link a second time, it loaded immediately). But the delay didn’t hit all sites, and the sites affected were…very specific and VERY different scales (NY Times vs Mastadon).
There’s also this, from the WaPo journalist who broke the story, showing a timeline of the delay (this was shared via Bluesky posts)
Any generic explanation of this being a normal configuration thing looking for cookies goes out the window for me when I see it be this consistent and then experience a rapid decline when the news breaks. I don’t think there’s much shot of this being an accident.
There was some more technical discussion in the Lounge thread on this topics, but it revolved around the issue being one with Twitter checking if you have cookies (if you clicked on a link a second time, it loaded immediately). But the delay didn’t hit all sites, and the sites affected were…very specific and VERY different scales (NY Times vs Mastadon).
There’s also this, from the WaPo journalist who broke the story, showing a timeline of the delay (this was shared via Bluesky posts)
Any generic explanation of this being a normal configuration thing looking for cookies goes out the window for me when I see it be this consistent and then experience a rapid decline when the news breaks. I don’t think there’s much shot of this being an accident.
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Generally I downvote ad hominem attacks on Mr. Musk on the principle that name calling doesn’t forward the discussion.
But shit. This is really fucking puerile.
But shit. This is really fucking puerile.
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You may have heard of this other guy who has been featured a lot in the news this week. /s
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1. That isn't anywhere near his level.
2. When someone is not acting in good faith, those wronged by said person acting in good faith will not resolve the situation.
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