It’s remarkable that Musk is so horrible that he managed to make Zuckerberg look good by comparison.
We have the Nazi bar owned by the Nazi who proudly put the Nazi flag outside and kicks anybody out who insults Nazis, but where a lot of non-Nazis still hang out because it was the busiest, best place before the Nazis took over: Twitter.
We have the soulless corporate bar run by a guy who installed cameras everywhere in the bar, in every booth, every bathroom stall, where every 5 minutes the music is interrupted by an ad, and where the exit door shut has been welded shut: Threads.
We have bar started by the guy who initially owned the Nazi bar, but who has since been kicked out, that has recently accepted a major funding round from TESCREAL fascists, but where the vibe, so far, is pretty chill, where they promise that eventually you’ll be able to wander to nearby bars that all share the same menu, but where that promise is always some vague time in the future: Bluesky.
We have the series of no-name pubs that don’t show up on any maps, some run out of people’s houses, some even run from studio apartments, some run out of mental institutions, where you can leave any time you want and take your friends with you, where it’s a bit of a free-for-all, and if you want a round of drinks you have to chase down the busy publican and ask what’s available, and where you might be asked for help pouring drinks: Mastodon.
It’s great to see that years after the Nazis took over, some people are finally choosing to stop going to the Nazi bar. It makes you wonder why they stayed so long though. But, I’m not as impressed with where they’re choosing to go instead.
His final x-cretion
I like King but like everyone leaving the boat since a couple of day, too little too late. Plus, leaving a babyllionaire’s toy for another babyllionaire’s toy is probably not the brightess idea.
He’s a multimillionaire who spent an entire decade or more so coked out and drunk that he doesn’t even remember writing Cujo. Don’t set your expectations so high.
So, he took his sweet time to leave the nazi bar and, of all places, he moves to the bar already on its way of becoming another nazi bar.
Ok
He’s going to Threads??? They have finally launched the metaverse and no one has told me anything??? I don’t see any other rational reason to do something like that.
Follow me on Threads, if you like.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Idk, Zuck doesn’t seem to suck up to Trump quite as much, so there’s that. He still does, but he’s just a bit more of a “behind closed doors” kind of person.
I thought he was into horror?
Have you visited Threads? It’s pretty horrific.
I don’t blame him, reality is scarier than fiction.
I don’t think he expected to witness Greg Stillson for real.
yawn. wake me up when he joins a social media site not owned by a corp.
TECTONIC SHIFT
Threads is the same or worse. I just deleted my account.
Good luck.
I wish I could delete my Threads account, but I can’t delete what doesn’t exist. And I think I deleted my Twitter account before Musk bought it, but I honestly can’t remember since I haven’t used it many years.
It doesn’t matter since they never actually delete your data anyways, and continue selling your marketing profile.
Yup, that’s part of why I’m not bothering to check. Me logging in will just give them more data to sell…
He can fuck off for legitimizing and enriching Musk’s Twitter for two years and then leaving after it’s too late to do any good.
Not to mention jumping to Threads of all places.
Not to say people shouldn’t leave Twitter, but like…this isn’t going to devastate him. He’s in the inner circle. Twitter could burn down and I doubt he would even notice.
The “sudden” realisation of corporations and publications and celebrities that now xitter is bad, but a month ago it was fine, is one of the thinner veils I’ve seen for a while, and there are a lot of thin veils going around.
The truth is, they only care once their income is potentially threatened, not a millisecond sooner, and definitely not about the bigotry that’s always been on there, but which has been completely undeniable for a good couple of years now, and which they were happy to turn a blind eye to this long.
“I tried hanging out with the Nazis, but they’re just too toxic”
Honestly… 🙄🙄🙄
“Relationship ended with Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg is my best friend now.”
You’re mixing up your problem with Twitter and normal humans’ problem with Twitter, get out of your echo chamber a bit, it might help.
Try enlightening us, o wise one.
Regular people don’t care about billionaires or their data or decentralization, the only reason they care about Musk in particular is the fact that he openly supports and finances a fascist, as long as Graber doesn’t do the same, people won’t give a crap about what he does with BlueSky just like they don’t give a crap about using other platforms like Instagram even though Zuckerberg is a moron.
If you don’t like weird billionaires running the show and pushing political misinformation, don’t use Facebook.
Threads was awash in bullshit “hacked at the tabulation level” election conspiracy theories following the election. It may not be MAGA, but it’s still making people stupid.
Meta even has Project 2025 people on staff helping run Threads: https://www.intomore.com/the-internet/why-did-meta-just-hire-this-ron-desantis-approved-project-2025-alum/
Stop using social media run by billionaires of you’re tired of getting fucked over by the ruling class.
Normal people don’t mind the billionaires as long as they’re not intentionally pushing fascist content. They want a product that they don’t need to understand to be able to use.
“I know this one billionare is a sociopath, but the others are great, there won’t happen anything bad in the future, I’m sure!”
You clearly don’t know anything about Stephen King’s politics and social positions.
Apparently neither does he.
I am perfectly aware that he’s a shitlib.
