Elon Musk announces changes as 'too much negativity' being pushed on X : technology

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 248 points 10 months ago

Ah, so he's going to stop posting there? Right?

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 206 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Now that the election is over and we won, let's remove our bots. - musk

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 84 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Oh, c'mon, who's going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

I mean, he will on an alt.

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[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 34 points 10 months ago

Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active

[–] barlog@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, bots are still needed for hating illegal immigrants.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 125 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No no, guys, you're misunderstanding. He MEANS there's too much negativity from people saying things like "X sucks since musk bought twitter....."

He's going to change those people's tweets to say "X is great!"

And by that I mean he's going to have a team to edit tweets that he doesn't like!

If that's not free speech, then Musk doesn't know what is!

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

This is exactly what he means.

Next up the sanctioned daily hate.

[–] carl_the_grackle@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A team? You mean ChatGPT?

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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This has nothing to do with Twitters image. He could have enforced that decision sooner if it was. This is about Trump. The negativity was helpful during Bidens presidency. Now that Trump is about to take over everything has to look like the world is happy again. It's political manipulation.

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[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 104 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He’s shutting down his account?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No he's gonna ban anyone who disagrees with him.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

That ain't going to turn down the negativity though

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol. Free Speech guy!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 43 points 10 months ago

A cisgender guy.

(This comment has been removed for violating X's policy on the use of derogatory slurs)

[+] eran_morad@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If there's going to be fantasies about murder, can his whole posse go out?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It'd be great if they all got together for Jonestown 2.0.

[–] __nobodynowhere@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

If someone were to poison the food at mar a lago, that person would have done more for this country than anybody else in the past 50 years.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

This is a fantasy about suicide but... yes.

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[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 72 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

free speech absolutist

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

Free speech abolitionist, more like.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.

[–] vader8er@pawb.social 62 points 10 months ago

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 60 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Instead of “bad” you have to say “ungood” from now on.

[–] SDK@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

Double plus ungood!

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Maybe if you tell me the bad news in a good way, it won't sound so bad."

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

X/Twitter is a misinformation platform. If you know a major influencer that uses, consider informing and directing them to the ActivityPub alternatives, even advertising on their platforms if you can.

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[–] lig@lemmings.world 44 points 10 months ago

Closing the shop will achieve that goal perfectly.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 41 points 10 months ago (1 children)

negativity about him.

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[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 34 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I thought the whole point of being right wing was being negative?

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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Now that the election is over, he’s hiding the lightning rod.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

He's such a fucking baby

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Right, he should remove the last few humans and replace them with bots.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago

Incumbent wants everyone to talk about how great things are.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

More circus and bread. Classic move

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

Project mayhem needs to take his balls

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 15 points 10 months ago

Don't want any Debbie-downers on Shitter once his bestie is in the big chair.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I mean in principle this is just a matter of moderation being different from censorship.

But really, an "algorithm tweak"? I am still wondering when or why who decided that we needed to have "algorithms" that someone could "tweak" on the Internet at all. The first kind of "social media" I ever used was web forums where the entire "algorithm" was thread bumping, and even if you insist that we need to have the structure of a microblog: Mastodon does fine without an "algorithm" beyond reverse-chronological sorting.

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My bet is on a scenario where Elon is going to ban people for using 'cisgender' term rather than downranking them.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

I'm curious whether Truth Social will acquire Xitter, or vice versa.

And when.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Reading the title I thought he'll retire.

[–] Jinni@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Should just use his AI to turn all the negative comments into positive ones.

Problem solved 🙃

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Um, Elon Musk is a... brilliant man with lots of well thought-out, practical, ideas. He is insuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is above reproach.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is a disgusting piece of shit.

Positivity Bot: Elon musk is a silly poop particle 😁

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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Yes, that town square needs to be happy. That's a happy democracy!

Mate, the bunting looks awfully like swastikas...

But happy, less negative swastikas, right?

Sure.

What an unserious human Musk is.

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago

Now that his pick has won the election there’ll be no need for negativity now!

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