• roadkill
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    Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod…

    • snownyte
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      And all of the Reddit moderators looked in awe and decided to behave just like him.

      Only problem is that they aren’t getting the kind of money he does for it.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      You’re totally right. You’re an amazing lemming, roadkill.

      • @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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        671 year ago

        He might, but that’s the whole point of federation - there’s hundreds of other instances (including the one you’re using) that he can’t buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.

        Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk’s version.

        • @daltotron@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          I think the best option would actually be to see how many times we can pull the scam on him, before he realizes what’s happening. Oops, oh no Elon, people are using a different instance! Look at how many users they have (they are different users we swear)! Looks like you’re gonna have to buy that one now! and so on.

      • @ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        Then I hop to another instance or create one of my own (running 19 or later so I can block his) and problem solved, lol.

        Federation means Musk can buy a single instance, or even a hundred instances, but cannot prevent anyone else from simply opening another somewhere else and making their own portal to the same content he wants to collect behind a paywall (if he even could).

  • @CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
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    881 year ago

    A “burner” account? Never heard it called that before. “Sock puppet” or just “puppet” makes much more sense.

    • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      541 year ago

      It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.

    • Beefy-Tootz
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      91 year ago

      Burner feels like such an old school term. I’ve more often heard “alt”, “Smurf”, or “finsta”. The last being a portmanteau of fake Instagram account

        • @FloMo@lemmy.world
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          61 year ago

          I always remember “toons” referring to your character, rather than your account. Kind of like the “cartoon character” you’re playing is how I understood it.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      71 year ago

      ‘Burner’ is to ‘Sock Puppet’ as #Hashtag is to ‘Pound Sign’.

  • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    731 year ago

    How. Fucking. Pathetic. Do you have to be. To have an entire army of sycophants. And that’s still not enough for your ego.

    • @PilferJynx@lemmy.world
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      211 year ago

      It honestly makes me genuinely sad. He definitely has complexes and holes in his soul to conduct this behavior. Doesn’t excuse him from being a complete asshole though.

      • @mriormro@lemmy.world
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        101 year ago

        Why are you sad about this piece of shit? He’d never pay you the same mind.

        I revel in the insecurities and smallness of these exploitative, parasitic wastes of air.

  • z3rOR0ne
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    521 year ago

    Oh Elon. You’re gonna need a whole lot more Ketamine to convince yourself you’re a good father.

  • @Bobmighty@lemmy.world
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    391 year ago

    All that money and power and no added happiness or joy. So unloved he has to fake it. I always knew absurd wealth doesn’t actually improve a person, but thanks for constantly proving it over and over again anyway Elon. Glad to know you’ll die unhappy.

    • @jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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      91 year ago

      This is some “John Barron” energy. Imagine having fucktons of money and still being a whiny crybaby like these fellows.

    • @Cyclist@lemmy.world
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      Have you seen his mom (Maye Musk)? I don’t think she ever loved Elon, or anyone. Maybe Dalmatians.

    • FaceDeer
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      Indeed, the level of obsession some people have with Elon Musk is kind of ridiculous.

  • Ghostalmedia
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    371 year ago

    X has two rules. Don’t talk shit about Elon, and don’t talk shit about the dictators he wants to get cozy to.

  • @Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
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    281 year ago

    Huh? Doesn’t everyone assume he has a whole PR team that probably runs hundreds of sock puppet accounts? Like human bots? I mean isn’t a PR team basically a given for a billionaire or any special interest group?

    • @Clent@lemmy.world
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      271 year ago

      Celebrities do use PR agencies but Musk is known for not having PR teams at any of his companies.

      He is the stupidest billionaire.

      • @Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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        61 year ago

        PR people? They’re an unnecessary expense.

        He literally cut twitter staff by 80%, twitter is on life support and running on fumes, has crazy technical issues and breaking features, and he refuses to invest in it.

        • @Clent@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          Yes the company is dying because he cut all their staff but that’s not the point.

          None of his companies have PR departments.

          Any request for comment to these companies is responded to with a poop emoji or ignored. He’s a child.

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        41 year ago

        He fired them all or paid them so little they don’t care

  • @Corngood@lemmy.ml
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    241 year ago

    This is some late 90s web forum admin tyrant drama. Wait until he finds out he can use phpmyadmin to edit other peoples posts.

    • kingthrillgore
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      He probably merits a 200 page Kiwi Farms thread, if they also didn’t suck him off for being “one of us.”

      I used to know this guy on a forum who had a serious mental disorder, would get banned for attention removed, and would come back months later either as a woman or someone else and get attention until we realized its the same fucking dude. He did actually have a forum of his own, and I am convinced at least three of the most active accounts were him, talking to himself. I don’t know what disorder he had, but he needed help.

  • @De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    231 year ago

    You know, I always thought money would make me happy. But he seems so much more insecure and miserable than I ever was.

    • ivanafterall
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      I’ve unfortunately worked for multiple multi-millionaires. The richer they were, the more insanely insecure in ways that would blow your mind. The richest would often leave his bank account open on his computer for his staff to see, among so many other examples.

      • kingthrillgore
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        71 year ago

        I’ve literally gained more respect for other rich assholes like Steve Ballmer and Gabe Newell because they don’t run their fucking mouths the way Elon does. AND THEY ARE STILL RICH ASSHOLES!

  • @Chaosl3gion@lemmy.world
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    221 year ago

    How exactly was it proven? Not defending Elon, I’m genuinely curious. The article mentions an audio recording sounding similar to Elon and some weird praises on Twitter. How does that connect the Dittmann account to Elon though?

    • @MrZee@lemm.ee
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      161 year ago

      Agreed. I strongly dislike Elon and think he is a thin skinned trust fund baby who is destroying Tesla and already destroyed Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to find out he is using sock accounts to praise himself… but in this article all I see are people making accusations without solid evidence. Yes, it appears he banned the guy accusing him but we already know that Elon will ban his critics whether or not those critics’ accusations are real. There is nothing here showing that the account is anything but one of his braindead fanboys.

      It’s one thing to take these accusations and try to find solid evidence. It’s another to treat the accusations as solid evidence itself. Let’s be better than the conspiracy theorists.

    • @lledrtx@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      I mean he has a history of doing this… Also, it’s not an audio recording. He joined a live audio chat and everyone on the chat (Alex Jones and some other weirdo) thought it was Elon.