Rich stupid guy doing things is not technology. Why is this community flooded with this guy doing or saying things?
I’m keen to join another tech focused community, with less non-tech spam, any recommendations?
Good luck. This stuff infects every technology related group I’ve seen here and on reddit.
Just need better moderation
How. Fucking. Pathetic. Do you have to be. To have an entire army of sycophants. And that’s still not enough for your ego.
It honestly makes me genuinely sad. He definitely has complexes and holes in his soul to conduct this behavior. Doesn’t excuse him from being a complete asshole though.
Why are you sad about this piece of shit? He’d never pay you the same mind.
I revel in the insecurities and smallness of these exploitative, parasitic wastes of air.
You can always feel empathy. The more you try the better person you’ll become.
Don’t be like sad rich guy, be better.
This is the way.
No, just… eat them.
It’s not like there’s any positive change waiting to happen from that thing. You can’t be tolerant of the intolerant. We joke a lot about Twixxer and how insecure Muxx is, but the truth remains - he is a real and direct threat to a lot of people.
Let’s not forget the beast behind the human behind the image.
Billionaire’s aren’t people and do not deserve our empathy. I am better. I don’t exploit thousands to hundreds of thousands of people’s lives for my own personal, shortsighted gain.
It’s not about them.
Being a halfway decent dad has to be easier than all this. Plenty of guys manage it
Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod…
And all of the Reddit moderators looked in awe and decided to behave just like him.
Only problem is that they aren’t getting the kind of money he does for it.
Not the mods, literally the admins. Steve idolizes Musk.
Jokes on you all the old mods were banned and replaced by admin approved bootlickers
Only the good ones left or so I hear. Reddit is blacklisted in my router NFTables.
It’s not about money, it’s about having a teeny tiny bit of authority over others in your otherwise meaningless existence.
They need all the money to afford them bulk hot pockets and get them MTG deals.
sadder to realize that no amount of money will stop people from acting like children for no material benefit, be it he or they
You’re totally right. You’re an amazing lemming, roadkill.
…or Lemmy mod.
You’re a shit father, Elon.
There, he can’t delete that.
You think he wouldn’t buy lemmy.world?
He might, but that’s the whole point of federation - there’s hundreds of other instances (including the one you’re using) that he can’t buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.
Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk’s version.
I think the best option would actually be to see how many times we can pull the scam on him, before he realizes what’s happening. Oops, oh no Elon, people are using a different instance! Look at how many users they have (they are different users we swear)! Looks like you’re gonna have to buy that one now! and so on.
Yes, make him play Whac-A-Mole! I love it!
Yeh, if he bought twitter for 44B, and there are 400 instances then that is still 110M per instance if he were to do that again.
Even 10% of that amount is more than an instance is worth.
Sales can be made pretty quickly when they are massively overvalued.Some instances’ admins are not so easily bought! I hope, at least.
Meh, I say sell the insurance. It is relatively easy to spin up a new one. Let Elmo waste money.
I doubt the devs of Lemmy would accept that considering their political opinions.
Oh my sweet summer child.
Most people would sell their own grandmother into slavery for a few million. I mean they’d feel terrible about it but still.
These dev with their technical level could work at top tech companies and gain that in a couple of years. Yet they dedicated their time to building Lemmy instead.
Is this actually true? I just assumed it was someone’s side hustle.
Before the Reddit migration, our income was almost exclusively made up of generous donations from the NLnet foundation. This funding was based on getting paid for implementing new features, specified in advance.
We’ve known that this funding could not last indefinitely, and that after several years of funding, NLnet’s resources are better spent getting other projects up and running. Additionally, much of our time is spent on other equally important work: reviewing changes from community contributors, fixing bugs, doing support, and various organizational tasks.
That is why we are launching our first annual funding drive. The goal is to increase monthly, recurring donations from currently €4.000 to at least €12.000. With this amount @dessalines and @nutomic can each receive a yearly salary of €50.000 which is in line with median developer salaries. It will also allow one additional developer to work fulltime on Lemmy and speed up development. https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-10-31_-_Join-Lemmy_Redesign_and_Funding_Drive
I think it would be easier to find where the owner of lemmy.world lives and threaten their family
Wait till he buy Lemmy
Then I hop to another instance or create one of my own (running 19 or later so I can block his) and problem solved, lol.
Federation means Musk can buy a single instance, or even a hundred instances, but cannot prevent anyone else from simply opening another somewhere else and making their own portal to the same content he wants to collect behind a paywall (if he even could).
How exactly was it proven? Not defending Elon, I’m genuinely curious. The article mentions an audio recording sounding similar to Elon and some weird praises on Twitter. How does that connect the Dittmann account to Elon though?
Agreed. I strongly dislike Elon and think he is a thin skinned trust fund baby who is destroying Tesla and already destroyed Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to find out he is using sock accounts to praise himself… but in this article all I see are people making accusations without solid evidence. Yes, it appears he banned the guy accusing him but we already know that Elon will ban his critics whether or not those critics’ accusations are real. There is nothing here showing that the account is anything but one of his braindead fanboys.
It’s one thing to take these accusations and try to find solid evidence. It’s another to treat the accusations as solid evidence itself. Let’s be better than the conspiracy theorists.
Nice try, Elon.
We are all Elon on this blessed day.
It’s elons all the way down.
I mean he has a history of doing this… Also, it’s not an audio recording. He joined a live audio chat and everyone on the chat (Alex Jones and some other weirdo) thought it was Elon.
Huh? Doesn’t everyone assume he has a whole PR team that probably runs hundreds of sock puppet accounts? Like human bots? I mean isn’t a PR team basically a given for a billionaire or any special interest group?
Celebrities do use PR agencies but Musk is known for not having PR teams at any of his companies.
He is the stupidest billionaire.
PR people? They’re an unnecessary expense.
He literally cut twitter staff by 80%, twitter is on life support and running on fumes, has crazy technical issues and breaking features, and he refuses to invest in it.
Yes the company is dying because he cut all their staff but that’s not the point.
None of his companies have PR departments.
Any request for comment to these companies is responded to with a poop emoji or ignored. He’s a child.
Aah, yes. I too love corporate bullshit lame responses. Damn you Musk for not having PR department!
Not as much as I love a Musk simp.
If he has a PR team they are doing a terrible job.
He fired them all or paid them so little they don’t care
It’s just amazing that probably the one man who least needs to give a crap about anything has such a thin skin. All of his money can’t seem to resolve his deep insecurity.
Not sure why the title says Elon nuked the account for outing him when the account owner says in the article that he left on his own accord due to doxxing
<sarcasm>Because, obviously, everything happening on X is Musk fault</sarcasm>
A “burner” account? Never heard it called that before. “Sock puppet” or just “puppet” makes much more sense.
It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.
Drug culture is more well known among normies than nerd culture, is what we’re saying here.
Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening here. Big shout out to drugs for winning the war…
It’s like a burner phone, you use it for a short time, then throw it away. Like throwaway accounts on reddit. A sockpuppet is specifically to make it look like multiple people have a certain opinion (see also: astroturfing).
So in the case of the article in question, then, this absolutely refers to a “sockpuppet” and not a “burner” because Adrian Dittmann isn’t going anywhere.
Don’t inject logic into the mental gymnasts all wanting to call it a burner anyway. It’s a lost battle. You’re absolutely right, though.
Burner feels like such an old school term. I’ve more often heard “alt”, “Smurf”, or “finsta”. The last being a portmanteau of fake Instagram account
‘Burner’ is to ‘Sock Puppet’ as #Hashtag is to ‘Pound Sign’.
I never understood why Americans call a ‘#’ a ‘pound sign’ but then if you put words in front of it, it suddenly becomes a ‘hashtag’. Shouldn’t it be a ‘poundtag’? I mean the rest of the Anglosphere refers to a ‘#’ as a ‘hash’ so it makes sense to us, but why do Americans call it a hashtag? Seems weird to me.
It’s contextual. If it’s used in a phone number, it’s a pound sign. If it’s placed before a number, it’s a number sign. If it’s placed before a tag, it’s a hash/hashmark/hashtag.
No one would pronounce “#foo” as “pound foo” any more than they’d call a #2 pencil a “pound two pencil”. Because “pound” is clearly not the right name in either context.
Americans have been comfortable using different names for the symbol in different contexts since long before hashtags even existed. So when websites started using them and referred to them as “hashtags”, that was fine. It was a new context so it could use whichever name it wanted. (Well, “octothorpe-tag” is probably far too unwieldy to catch on.)
Of course if we’re talking about the symbol without a specific context, then we have to pick one of the names. For most Americans, that “default” name is probably still “pound”. Twenty years ago I’d definitely say that, but even then it wasn’t ubiquitous. It wasn’t uncommon to hear it referred to as a hash. And it seems like the use of “pound” has declined and the use of hash has increased as people now spend more time online and less time dialing phone numbers. There’s also a generational divide with older people more likely to say “pound” and younger people more likely to say “hash”.
It’s because it comes from the lb pound symbol, which became ℔, which when written quickly and sloppily became a sort of hash symbol, and then it became the # symbol we know today. Pound is the more accurate name for the context it came from.
Others have already answered better than I, but it’s basically just a symbol to signify a weight, pound.
It was already repurposed to be a symbol for numbers, when they are part of a sentence, and now it’s being repurposed even more so for the Internet.
All that money and power and no added happiness or joy. So unloved he has to fake it. I always knew absurd wealth doesn’t actually improve a person, but thanks for constantly proving it over and over again anyway Elon. Glad to know you’ll die unhappy.
This is some “John Barron” energy. Imagine having fucktons of money and still being a whiny crybaby like these fellows.
Have you seen his mom (Maye Musk)? I don’t think she ever loved Elon, or anyone. Maybe Dalmatians.
Money won’t make you happy for sure.
Very well put. He and many others create a lot of misery chasing what they think will make them happy rather than what actually will. Figuring out the difference is a personal process that you have to want, though.
I always figured he was some kind of workaholic that can never have enough. That is sometimes good for your bank balance but it is often not good for YOU.
I wouldn’t exactly call him a workaholic. He spends quite a few hours a day browsing Twitter.
I did wonder if I’d get a reply like this since it has the word “work” in it, lol.
I’m sure he tweets from the office a lot.
Don’t harsh my buzz, dude.
Don’t buzz his harsh >:C
Yeah when there are world spanning consequences like buying Twitter or helping Russia with Starlink, I’m listening.
When he…has a second Twitter account, I do not care.
Wasn’t he already busted having that weird account that’s a kid talking about hentai?
You’rr an amazing
fathersugar daddy, ElonFTFE
As much as I hate Musk, its not like he’s lacking in actual sycophants to publicly kiss his ass. And also the title is wrong Liam Nissan didnt get banned he deleted the account to move to Bluesky.
It took Boston dynamics 30 years to do what Elon BOUGHT in one.
😂🤡
If Elon buys the robo dog…
