After Axing Headlines, Elon Musk To Hide Retweet, Like Buttons On Twitter
Elon Musk is indicating you'll need to tap a tweet in order to see the retweet and like buttons. 'This will greatly improve readability,' he says.
I’m just waiting for
“After moving all features behind a paywall, Musk hides the Login button.”
At this point, he’s obviously just trolling.
At this point, he’s obviously just
trollingan idiot.
He shouldjusyt shut it down at this point
Seriously, everyone here, if you know somebody still using Twitter, you should take the time to inform them about mastodon and explain why continuing to use that dying abusive platform and give Musk legitimacy is a bad idea.
The moment you get actual content creators to move off twitter and provide their content on mastodon, I'm deleting it too. Until then I don't really see mastodon being a proper replacement, if anything it looks like bsky is taking the lead in that area unfortunately. Besides, half of mastodon community is seemingly against the idea of becoming mainstream anyway... so I dunno if it's ever going to work out that way.
As somebody who produces content (with a full time job so not as often as I like) it's so much harder to get engagement on mastodon without the algorithm tbh. I'm trying to get my name out there but engagement is slim to none compared to say, Instagram. I'm not on Twitter but both BlueSky and Mastodon have been a struggle. I don't see myself devoting too much energy into them as far as posting content goes tbh.
Twitter has always been garbage but now it's way worse than ever before
You're not going to argue them out of Twitter. If they're still there, it's not for rational reasons. It's because of nostalgia, or because they're part of communities that are stuck facing the Fiddler on the Roof problem.
Shaming them for staying isn't going to work, either. We need to make a space for them to move to, not away from, and, frankly, the Fediverse just isn't that right now.
Can we simply stop talking about Twitter? At this time, we're just drawing traffic to articles about it, encouraging more free advertising for Twitter to be made
Tbh i like this circling around the dying zebu part of media, especially when its about an oligarch slowly consuming himself!
Dying zebu?
Yeah. Like trump, I enjoy it, but it's like alcohol, I know it's not a good thing lol
2 weeks from now “Elon musk plans to lock the ability to like and retweet behind subscription”
Literally making Twitter more tolerable every time he locks some feature behind logins/paywalls.
I never understood the appeal of twitter before Elon bought it, and I understand it less with every news report about it since.
It was a great place to share information in a short and clear manner. You could subscribe to journalists working in your area, a professor from MIT or another university, follow sport journalists, war analysts - you name it. They all posted their thoughts and links to their articles, interviews or podcasts with them, they shared information about their new books. Twitter was like an RSS feed, where you could subscribe to authors directly. You could write them and get a reply! It was and probably still is a great tool, though Musk is taking a lot of steps to destroy it.
Yup; Twitter was at its best when it was just a free RSS aggregator with summaries and a lot more publishers.
To be fair, the only thing I ever used it for was emergency reporting.
If he scales it back so that the only free and public feature is tweets of 250 characters or less, I may actually visit it again. Assuming my ad blocker works.
making the experience worse to force people to click on tweets and drive up impressions inflating user counts
Next up on the chopping block: Posting and reading tweets.
How to make 44B$ disappear: For aspiring billionaire magicians with no control over their tongue or egos.
He can always not pay the bank who actually paid for Twitter. It is already worth less than his debt.
I always wondered why they didn’t use gestures. Going from using Apollo to to Twitter was jarring.
Not that it matters now, I fixed that by just not going to X.
It was like this on the Flamingo app aswell and I prefered it that way. I almost never interact with any tweets so those buttons were just useless clutter for me.
