• vsis@feddit.cl
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    8 months ago

    Rich stupid guy doing things is not technology. Why is this community flooded with this guy doing or saying things?

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      8 months ago

      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.

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    8 months ago

    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

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    8 months ago

    A “burner” account? Never heard it called that before. “Sock puppet” or just “puppet” makes much more sense.

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      8 months ago

      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.

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    Wasn’t he already busted having that weird account that’s a kid talking about hentai?

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        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.

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          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.

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          8 months ago

          I doubt the devs of Lemmy would accept that considering their political opinions.

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            8 months ago

            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.

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              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.

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                  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

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        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).

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    8 months ago

    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.

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    How. Fucking. Pathetic. Do you have to be. To have an entire army of sycophants. And that’s still not enough for your ego.

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      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.

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        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.

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          You can always feel empathy. The more you try the better person you’ll become.

          Don’t be like sad rich guy, be better.

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            8 months ago

            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.

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            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.

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    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?

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    8 months ago

    Other than the Delaware thing and saying shitty things on Twitter, has Musk actually done anything newsworthy since he purchased Twitter?

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    Joined by conspiracy theorist David Icke, who believes that the world’s top leaders are actually lizards, Jones and his guest both questioned whether they were actually talking to Musk based on the individual’s eerily similar speech.

    There’s… there’s a lot to unpack here. I’m truly saddened that this version of me ended up in the bizarre timeline; I wonder how my other selves are doing.

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      I was looking through comments to see if anyone noticed this part. I have to believe that he doesn’t really think world leaders are actual lizards and its actually more of a performance art piece or something.

      If he’s serious about it… I just don’t know how humanity went so wrong.

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        Idk dude, I read his wiki page and some of this shit is just nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke

        This guy strikes me as one of:

        • a cult member
        • an aspiring cult leader
        • a grifter
        • someone suffering a psychotic break from reality (obligatory: I’m not a trained medical/mental health professional)
        • some combination of the above
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            Well that’s a big old yikes from me dawg. I took a quick peek at those subs and I can’t say it was worth the time I spent dancing around reddit’s VPN blocker. I bet the AI company is gonna get some great data from those comments.

            Also time cube is banned so there’s that lol.

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              Yeah it wasn’t supposed to be pleasant lol damn menorahman finally got the sun to take the big L with all his very real antisemitism. Weird hearing someone praise the Monad and then be antisemitic.

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    Adrian and Musk were on the same twitter space call once and even conversed a bit. Maybe that video was fake or just really well done by him with voice changers, but honestly I think it’s just a coincidence that these two idiots sound alike.

    Yes it would be really funny if musk did this but reddit also is going wild over this and I think in the end it will just for once turn out that musk Musk didn’t do something.