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Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,... (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news and websites he dislikes | The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times,...::undefined

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[–] i_am_hungry@meganice.online 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why are so many people still using Twitter, what will it take for people to leave? Musk could probably charge $10 per tweet and bunch of people would be fine with that.

[–] DogsShouldRuleUs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The same reason 2016 happened. Lots of mentally broken people in this country. Just watched a manager, old guy, at work, go off to another old co-worker about "did you hear about what they're doing to skittles? With the fucking trans colors!?" knuckle dragging rabble rabble THEY WERE ALREADY A RAINBOW.

[–] keefshape@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

There are so many other valid arguements against skittles (my favorite candy). Idk whether to facepalm or guffaw that fucking skittles are now on the map to fight against.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly with how fast threads, brand new, was able to jump into this compared to the growth of mastodon, I'm convinced the only thing that can convince most people to stop using a corperate bloated social media site from hell is a new, slightly less bloated (so far) corperate social media site from hell.

Twitter won't die all the way until we have something else we want to die

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

People will never accept that part of the problem is themselves.

Hell, even I still use Twitter sometimes. I admit I am part of the problem. Other people won't at least try to be honest about it.

Then they complain. That just shows that they're not actually upset at the existence of sites like Twitter, they're just upset they're not the ones running them.

The vast majority of human beings in this country are so toxic.

[–] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago

The removal of the capability to make money on it as a platform.