The government is not your friend, we are ruled by power tripping authoritarian rulers. They are using security and defense as a pretext to abolish your rights. You can solve the narcotraffic problem by simply legalizing drugs, they are going after encryption for something else, they want to control everything and everyone.
These who waited until the X take over to move away are simply following trends.
See you can be a really good scientist and not smart at the same time. Move to mastodon.
fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored.
Sounds like USA authorities are stronger than ever. People have been screwed for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disclosures
this was under obama
It had value, but nothing close to 43 BILLION dollars.
43 billions is peanuts compared to the 3 trillions apple and microsoft market cap. Twitter is one of the biggest social network in the world and the one more used by politicians. It has plenty of value even if not making profits, everyone know how it works.
And now you read daily how much money it’s losing.
Last time i hear about him he was talking over the president, as expected from owning one of the biggest social networks in the world he isn’t losing much.
Literally the ONLY reason Musk bought it was because he got into a pissing contest
People keep saying he’s an idiot making stupid decisions, which is true because he’s a corrupted money addict but he’s the second if not the first richest man in the world and he’s now in the white house talking for the president. You are all getting fooled hard thinking he becomes more wealthy by accident.
Doesn’t look like a bad investment, look at where the ceo is at
Twitter is one of the biggest social networks in the world and the most used by politicians worldwide. It’s quite obvious that his position allowed him to get more votes to his party.
Doesn’t seem like he lost much, like you would expect by buying one of the biggest social platform in the world he got even richer and more relevant (enough to get a sit in the white house)
Why they didn’t want it?
Doesn’t make much business sense for megacorps to buy one of the biggest social media that allowed his new ceo a place in the white house?
Sort of agree but look how much he’s done for Linux gaming.
Let’s not forget that Steam is a proprietary third party launcher that doesn’t share any values with linux. Valve built the apple store of videogames, while they are now moving in a better direction keep in mind that they are part of the problem.
We are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform. Steam is closed as much as reddit is.
Promoting gambling to kids and use the profits to buy multiple mega yachts is peak scum.
Minecraft is yet another example of no expections. Minecraft is proprietary and they never lowered the price even after making millions, they actually increased it. It was sold to one of the worst company in the world for even more money.
After making millions a normal person would have make the game publicly available or at last free and they wouldhave never sell it to microsoft.
They do what every for profit company in the world does, they try to make as much money as possible and they spend money in advertising.
Honestly, the secret is not being a publicly traded company.
Valve fortune doesn’t come from not being traded publicly. They built a nearly monopoly on pc videogames with their walled garden proprietary third party launcher.
His company is working damn hard to make sure you believe they don’t do nothing. All billionares are scum.
The whole network is de facto centralized on Matrix.org
That’s not true there’s plenty of people using different homeservers
One of the reason people here are so insistent about free and open source software is so that you can enjoy things indefinitely.