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[deleted] t1_iww9pw7 wrote

Reply to comment by Guygan in I just opened up a Mastodon instance for Maine folks. If you're leaving Twitter or just want to check it out, stop by. by speeb

Care to explain why people are leaving Twitter or are you just going to be snarky in responding to my posts?

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TravellingTransGirl t1_iwwgn8a wrote

Two reasons:

  1. Musk's vision for the Twitter product is theoretically and practically destroying what was great about Twitter.
    1. His dogmatic approach to free speech is resulting in a wave of hate speech underming any semblance of reasonable discourse on the platform.
    2. The pay to play model for verification ($8 for blue check) is actually undermining 1 above as the newly introduced Twitter algorithm will promote "verified" accounts to the top of your Twitter stream while suppressing the "unverified" accounts further down.
  2. Musk's business strategy is unethical.
    1. Demanding employees "lick his boot" with seemingly zero input/oversite from internal committees.
    2. Cutting headcount because his failing product model in 1 above is resulting in negative future cash flow estimates.
    3. Leveraging employees from Tesla to support with Twitter.
    4. Leveraging Tesla/SpaceX equity to bolster the failing business of Twitter (keep in mind Tesla and SpaceX receive funding from the govt so he is indirectly using our tax money to pad his failure).

Given these concerns, it is reasonable for a person to simply not want to engage with Twitter especially because the value of Twitter is the content the individual user provides to it.

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edit: oh, one other major thing, Musk is a manchild rightwing memer who a lot of people find despicable on surface level actions alone. As such, simply not wanting to associate with that shit stain is sufficient for many.

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sy33d_am33r_ali t1_iwwq2hr wrote

My understanding is that he is asking employees to sign some kind of loyalty pledge to keep their jobs, which includes commitments like “working longer hours and overtime at a high intensity” and not working from home.

I would probably quit my job if my new boss casually demanded that I double my workload and abandon any pretense of work-life balance as well.

It’s not hard to understand why people aren’t into this.

Then again, fuck twitter. It’s not like they were good for the world before Musk either. May he run them into the ground and lose all the money he spent!

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RagnarDaViking t1_iwzivh1 wrote

Yeah, even with a name like Elon Musk, how can you be any good. Sounds like a star trek character. Haha

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IamSauerKraut t1_iwwjeqk wrote

The Musk Virus will kill more things in a shorter time frame than the covid virus ever did.

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sheeponabowl t1_iwwc3xc wrote

u/guygan is really good at being snarky tbh. You’ll see it quite often.

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Guygan t1_iwwc7kx wrote

It’s my brand

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OhDeBabies t1_iwwg7h4 wrote

I enjoy it! Not to be a creep but whenever I notice a particularly snarky comment on /r/sailing and see that it's you, I think to myself "Ah, the humor of my people*"

*^(Dark) ^(Mainer) ^(who) ^(may) ^(or) ^(may) ^(not) ^(be) ^(too) ^(online)

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Guygan t1_iwx8xqh wrote

hmu if you want to go sailing this coming summer.

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Bywater t1_iwx8h4y wrote

We are pretty sure it's his only redeeming feature...

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Bywater t1_iwx8pgn wrote

I suspect the vast majority is due to the fact that Musk continues to remove any doubt about what a garbage human being he is. There were times when those things didn't matter, but not anymore. People, particularly young folks, will happily go without something if they thing the people who own it are shitty.

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