“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he wrote Monday, adding later, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”
The owner of Twitter is learning how text-based communication works in realtime before our eyes.
“I wAs JoKiNg!”
- lots of negative blowback: “it was a joke!”
- not that much negative blowback, at least initially: “yeah I meant that”
aka Schrodinger’s douchebag.
That’s always the lame cover up.
If only the Bible said something about this.
Now we need people to read and remember what their book actually says.
IDGAF what the bible says
Well IDGAF what you GAF about
IDSPISPOPD
Thanks. A handy verse to throw in the face of those who claim to be Christians.
Is Elon a Christian?
Not that I’m aware of, but a lot of his new followers are.
You think the Secret Service got the joke?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a visit. Any of the rest of us might have for statements like that.
Any of the rest of us …
I think you have answered your own question.
Slash he surrounded himself with people absolutely willing to step on one another to gain power and wealth so of course they’re going to laugh at all of his “jokes”
probably one of the lawyers told him to cool it.
He’s incredibly paranoid and conspiracy minded. He probably realized after “just asking questions / joking” that “they” might send a few of these guys for him next! 2spooky4him
Lol at “the context”. Bitch, WHAT context would make it any better?
I’m sure the yes men he surrounds himself with was “the context”.
Being in a room full of nazis would make that “joke” a total thigh-slapper.
And being surrounded by yes men. And by right wing nutjobs.
I can just see him making his “joke” then doing that annoying over the top laugh with all his sycophants grinning along.
Turns out some things simply aren’t funny. Not posting a thought right when it comes to your head also helps.
At 53 years old
Lots of regular people know thats its risky to send a sarcastic text
Sometimes I’m feeling bold and leave out the /s. You gotta keep it spicy.
WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERYONE NOT DELETED TWITTER
there is literally no correct answer
I just said goodbye to it today. I realised there’s a bigger, unselfish choice to be made in the scheme of it all
I was only ever there to follow a wide variety of parody star trek accounts which were hilarious and thought provoking.
They’re all gone, now that musk is doing his thing. Twitter was cancer, now it’s terminal bullshit and I’ve deleted it long ago
there is literally no correct answer
I deleted mine years ago but, in Japan, it’s still one of the main ways small shops communicate with their customers. Some use FB or insta instead. They don’t have the knowledge, money, or desire to create a whole website that is far more difficult to interact with and update than the platforms that are free, people use, and are easy to update.
We need to get libraries running mastodon/lemmy/fediverse world-wide
I’m worried my library would ban me for wanting more stuff to be owned like libraries.
I don’t disagree, but the majority of Japanese are just using whichever device is in their pocket (largely iPhones or Android, some feature phones, the occasional tablet, and much more rarely (outside of official business work), an actual full-sized computer).
I think they’re suggesting that business owners create Lemmy communities with their phones, hosted on library servers.
Ah. That’d be a nightmare here, probably. Japan is pretty notorious for low tech literacy outside of a few narrow areas. I also think that this might have reliability impacts that just drive people away. Finally, no average japanese person has any idea what the fediverse is, so that’s another hurdle to jump.
Looks for library in current country. Nope.
What can I say, I like to watch dumpster fires
There’s way better hobbies
There is no one true replacement for the utility that it provides. Not with sufficient penetration of network effect, anyway.
Same reason most people don’t delete Facebook (edit: or Reddit).
You may not personally find utility in either of them. But just like boner pill spam, clearly someone does, or they would just go away.
lol the comparison of useless social media to useless boner pill ads is perfect. of course someone finds it useful. just like someone finds crack cocaine useful
But boner pills aren’t replaceable (like Twitter) or unnecessary (like crack). Sexuality isn’t a vice.
