(post for my) green spun philster
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 05:03 (one year ago) link
Having seen WeChat work in China, this scenario actually makes sense:
There you go. Muskโs plan for Twitter is to copy WeChat. https://t.co/wgcjUc2fOT— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) November 8, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
legendary greenspun hours: when his dog* had like peed on the server out in the garage that ilx and the all other boards** were housed on, and we had couple of days outage till it dried out or whatever
*(probably no longer with us RIP) **eg there were two Y2K boards on greenspun bcz there'd been a massive flameward schism over how to interpret the non-arrival of the Y2K end-times, also ask a drunk and iirc de subjectivisten ๐๐ผ
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
copy wechat (create x the everything app) except start by paying $4b for the legacy code base of a site for journalists to yell at each other
― lagโn, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
I feel like a problem with this model is Elon himself. Most people have gotten comfortable with online payment systems, but those are generally controlled by big faceless corporations. We may not like them, but like the banks, we have some level of trust in their institutional competence and stability. But to the degree that Elon is just making Twitter all about him, I think there might be some well-founded reluctance to give This Guy your credit card info and purchase history.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
if you use paypal* you already did!
*used paypal 20 years ago
― ้พ, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
It boggles the mind, but the need for these dudes to broadcast their assholism rather than quietly go about business as secret assholes or rumored assholes is incredible. It's like the all attention is good attention mentality of small children turned up to 11.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
people be wanting attention is how i break it down to an extent
― lagโn, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
the ones who can keep it quiet are the ones i fear more tbh (they're like the fraudsters who never get caught)
the internet tells me there are 3,311 billionaires btw (maybe there's a page somewhere with a number that clicks up or down)
― mark s, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
results for billionaires vs results for "real billionaires"
― nashwan, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
Tesla dropping another 5% today is it? Down to a new 52 week low?
― after several days on โthe milk,โ (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
Giant Tesla recall just announced โ 40,000 cars with power steering issues, apparently.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
all tesla OSs will be upgraded to display twitter as their homepage, car self destructs unless you pay an extra $8 per month
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
What was Musk's role in PayPal? Was he instrumental in it development or is it more of a Tesla thing where he glommed on to someone else's stuff?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
the latter iirc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
― ้พ, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
shouldn't be a surprise but Elon was a notoriously poor developer - a lot of his ex-employees remarked that virtually all the code he wrote had to be rewritten
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Yeah, but the *ideas* in that code, man, the *ideas*." He's a visionary, not a secretary.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Like, check out my code:
$htmrr----jheeeeeee*#&>>>exe:--SELF-DRIVING CARKooo>>>2112******AV-??/://EXE
Clean that up and you're practically minting money.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
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tbf this is pretty standard you build something that works and eventually if it catches on you hire people who are better than you and also have more time to do a good job
― lagโn, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
Paying 44 billion to become a mid.
Incredible how small time he is. This is the world's richest person (for now) and he's got such severe poster's brain that he's doing this. https://t.co/iBWX0m4EBW— Sinan Kose (@TheSinanKose) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
Mid range mod
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
Funnily enough LinkedIn might be the only old-ish social media that isn't on fire?
Why couldnโt he buy LinkedIn?— Prof Jo Barraket ๐๐๐๐๐ (@JBarraket) November 7, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn brain impervious to worms though
― after several days on โthe milk,โ (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
linkedin is perfect because it can't pretend to be anything other than a corporate shill site you only visit because you have to or because you're psychotic
― ๊ฎ (map), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
I actually went on there for the first time after signing up like 15 years ago and looked around and, blech.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Lol so many bad takes earlier on this thread and people who were buying into his snake oil.
Happy to see how the tide has turned and everyone - except for tsla cult bagholders - can see the emperor has no clothes on.
― โโโ (Moka), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:18 (one year ago) link
i find linkedin incredibly soothing. like porridge.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
linkedin help me break my addiction to twitter - after i limited my twitter usage any time i feel the need to plug in to a stream of updates i'll go to linkedin, read a few posts, and then close the tab (easily, without friction)
linkedin is kinda like methadone for social media
― ้พ, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn has a particularly deranged vibe, as not only is your boss on there, but everybody who could possibly be your boss and all the batshit influencer/grifter/striver they pay attention to all in the same ecosystem.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
linkedin incredibly depressing to me as I need to use it to look for jobs; but the feed is just post after post of layoffs at the moment.
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
same same
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
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lmao gotta check it out
― lagโn, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
i figured most people were like me - on linkedin constantly when job searching and barely ever on it when not
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
this is like i'm reading some strange foreign or alien philosophy. i've not been there since 2014, doubt the time would change my opinion. i was quite actually a diff person then tho, hmmm, do i dare?
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
It's like the all attention is good attention mentality of small children turned up to 11.Narcissism is a normal stage of development if youโre say 3 years old. Some people never mature emotionally beyond that. In Elmoโs case it seems to be mixed with the terminally online techbroโs need to be perennially correct on technicalities. Like Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to. I donโt think Elmo can.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to. I
citation needed
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn has become infested with right-wing political posters. Many of them have probably been kicked off other sites.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
LinkedIn will have like, a head of DEI at Google post something innocuous and 1/3 of the replies will be from old white dudes who are like heating repairmen in Nebraska deriding them for being woke.
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
or, someone will post something LGBTQ+ (hey I got married, hey here's my kid) and they'll be blasted to hell by both the previous posters and non-US based software devs (eastern european, middle eastern, south asian) jeering at them or saying "this is in appropriate for a careers website, no one cares about your personal life"
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
They said I was too socially conscious , so I beat em unconscious
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
at least people stopped sharing shit from Dan Price
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
The problem with his vision of being WeChat America is that we already have a range of entrenched payment portals and Twitter wasnโt popular enough before he made it stupider.
If peak Facebook couldnโt make sending money to people a serious part of their business, Twitter has no chance.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Wait, people post personal non-work related stuff on LinkedIn? My impression - from the email notifications I get, not from, you know, actually logging in to the site - was that people just posted when they changed jobs or companies or did a training course. Actually all the notifications I've got in the last couple of years have been 'hey do you want to connect with this person you don't know who works at the same company as this person you used to work with several years ago?'. Er, no...
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
I never post. I just like that the timeline is lobotomy level content.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
This feels like admitting to meeting a partner via online dating when it was still weird, but I actually got my current job via (very well targeted the) recruiter spam on LinkedIn too haha.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
Trump is a narcissist who can pass as sort of normal if he really has to. citation neededIโm not expressing any love for Trump but he seems to have some ability at social manipulation that Elmo lacks. Trump could shitpost effectively on Twitter. Elmo cannot. Trump is a guy bikers could have a beer with. Elmo is not.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
You're talking about ex-president, Donald J Trump, correct?
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
Wait, people post personal non-work related stuff on LinkedIn?
― akm, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Trump telling the Phoenix Hells Angels about his favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber nber would be a sight.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
all while wiping down counters over and over and refusing to drink a (1) beer
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link