Melon Edison doing a great job by advertising mastodon to masses

Man even got an Iron Man 2 cameo as himself, and had scenes (of the bad guys factory lmao) filmed in a SpaceX factory

All he had to do was sit in his money bunker and make dumb tweets about harmless things and he’d have eventually died a legendary figure.

Now he’s infamous for a totally different reason. I mean look at Richard Branson. That could be Elon right now, as the worst case scenario. Some hyper-rich dude that most people are aware of but that you never hear much negative on in the media. He just kinda exists, does billionaire stuff. Heck, even Bezos right now. When’s the last time you saw Bezos show up negatively in the news? And neither of them had a full on cult of personality forming around them.

Well, he used to have a really good PR team, along with teams at Tesla and SpaceX to prevent him from breaking anything important.

Then he fired the PR team and took direct control of a company that didn’t have a team of handlers.

We’re now seeing the real Musk instead of Musk filtered through teams of competent people.

he had every single one of us believing he was real life Tony Stark

Who is us?

His hype was otherworldly. I honestly think it outstripped his own efforts and became a cultural thing, probably affected his own self-perception to no small degree… Now here we are.

Watching this man’s trainwreck is so mind boggling. I mean just a decade ago he had every single one of us believing he was real life Tony Stark. I mean even pop culture sci fi like Star Trek mentioned him along Sagen and Einstein… He really pulled the wool over our eyes.

Hey, not every one of us. I disliked Elon Musk before it was cool. I thought he was always obviously just another obscenely wealthy self-centered guy with good PR.

It’s a thing with large corporations that want to do something unpopular, and she probably knows he’s doing it. Hire a woman to be a CEO, do ALL SORTS of nasty things that she can’t directly veto because you’re the owner, then fire her for the backlash to those things and come in as a conquering hero.

The Ellen Pao effect.

Reddit will win that, handsdown

Reddit is winning right now. You still get the daily digests from them? The stuff it’s suggesting to me is wild. You’d never even see it if a lot of the website’s traffic didn’t suddenly get thanos snapped.

This is why I’m not sweating it when Reddit didn’t immediately implode and die due to the protests and blackouts. It’s going to take time, but if they keep going in the direction they are, eventually only the low lifes will want to be there.

Not the [email protected] should be what you’re looking for

Yeah I’m trying to get accustomed to Mastodon. Having sort of the same issue I’m having here though - kinda difficult to find people/communities

I created a new twitter account, blocked every conservative I could find, and now just post “Fuck Donald Trump” in all the popular threads. Twitter has to make sure none of those nitwits see my post and Watermelon Musk has to pay for the processing. Petty, but I’m not sweating.

You see, it’s very simple. It’s all about what Elon likes and dislikes. That’s it.

The ongoing theory is that Twitter played some role in the Arab spring and the Saudis paid for a lot of the buyout exactly because they want it gone.

Doesn’t need a block button when he has the power to unilaterally nuke any account that posts his receding hairline photo