Seems like a smart move. Twitter is and was largely emblematic of everything wrong with social media and it's only gotten worse.

Never had a twitter account. But used to check a few every once in a while. That ended when they stopped you from reading beyond the first page without being logged in. They've been killing themselves for a while now and recent events just accelerated it.

I never used Twitter and now, there is even less reason to. This is just another example of why platforms like Twitter and Facebook cannot be allowed to be in private hands.

Never used it, nor fakebook or any other whatscrap !

Out of interest why is the comments closed ?

I never understood the whole "you need to have a presence on X social media to be successful" thing. Fuck 'em all.

Never used it, nor fakebook or any other whatscrap !

Out of interest why is the comments closed ?

Because, something that always surprises me in the Linux community, there’s a lot of far right conservative nut jobs that follow and make it their mission to be terrible in comments on stuff like this. I didn’t want to waste my Sunday evening dealing with them.

far right conservative nut jobs

The free speech means I can insult everyone and drop racist remarks without consequences quotecrowd? I've seen some of them in the comments even here.


I wonder if Musk will end up thinking it was a good idea to buy Twitter. With the added debts and the destructive changes that caused a huge drop in advertisement – basically the only source of income – it does not look very sustainable.


I've never had an account, but there were some accounts that I read regularly – including several comics (some of them twitter only in the past). That has been made harder with the changes mentioned by Ehvis, but now you seem to get weird tweets by Musk displayed as related to everything.

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"Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288

"Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288

I don't trust a single he says. He's repeatedly gone back on his word on many things, and keeps screwing people over. Fuck Twitter until he puts someone else in charge or does better.

The free speech means I can insult everyone and drop racist remarks without consequences quote? I've seen some of them in the comments even here.

If you see racism, hit the report button, don't randomly complain about it here.

This is now locked, because an article is up and I don't want to keep having to remove stupid comments.