Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod…
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.
Not the mods, literally the admins. Steve idolizes Musk.
Jokes on you all the old mods were banned and replaced by admin approved bootlickers
Only the good ones left or so I hear. Reddit is blacklisted in my router NFTables.
sadder to realize that no amount of money will stop people from acting like children for no material benefit, be it he or they
It’s not about money, it’s about having a teeny tiny bit of authority over others in your otherwise meaningless existence.
They need all the money to afford them bulk hot pockets and get them MTG deals.
You’re totally right. You’re an amazing lemming, roadkill.
…or Lemmy mod.
You’re a shit father, Elon.
There, he can’t delete that.
Wait till he buy Lemmy
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).
A “burner” account? Never heard it called that before. “Sock puppet” or just “puppet” makes much more sense.
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.
Drug culture is more well known among normies than nerd culture, is what we’re saying here.
Yes. That’s exactly what’s happening here. Big shout out to drugs for winning the war…
It’s like a burner phone, you use it for a short time, then throw it away. Like throwaway accounts on reddit. A sockpuppet is specifically to make it look like multiple people have a certain opinion (see also: astroturfing).
So in the case of the article in question, then, this absolutely refers to a “sockpuppet” and not a “burner” because Adrian Dittmann isn’t going anywhere.
Don’t inject logic into the mental gymnasts all wanting to call it a burner anyway. It’s a lost battle. You’re absolutely right, though.
Elon more like Stock burner eh? Eh?
I like bad jokes
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
An alt account is one for a different purpose. For example, work and personal, not necessarily for espousing an opinion. A smurf account is one of many designed to overwhelm a system. A finsta is for satirizing yourself or shitposting.
And in World of Warcraft they called accounts “toons”. I’ve never understood that one.
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.
Does it let you have multiple characters under one account? I never played it, so I don’t know.
Either way, that name never really made sense to me.
Last I played years ago I think you could have 10? And that was per server, there were tons of servers to choose from, so if you wanted more, you could.
Yes, up to 10 per server, and you could have characters on multiple servers.
I remember seeing the term even while playing pre-WoW MMO’s
Isn’t a smurf supposed to be an account from an experienced user/player that’s meant to make them look new or lower ranked?
Smurfing is when a high-level player trolls the lower ranks below their skill level.
Lots of players have smurf accounts for games where high- and low-ranked players don’t get paired together, so they can play on the same team as their lower-ranked friends.
Sockpuppet is what I like to call them
‘Burner’ is to ‘Sock Puppet’ as #Hashtag is to ‘Pound Sign’.
I never understood why Americans call a ‘#’ a ‘pound sign’ but then if you put words in front of it, it suddenly becomes a ‘hashtag’. Shouldn’t it be a ‘poundtag’? I mean the rest of the Anglosphere refers to a ‘#’ as a ‘hash’ so it makes sense to us, but why do Americans call it a hashtag? Seems weird to me.
It’s contextual. If it’s used in a phone number, it’s a pound sign. If it’s placed before a number, it’s a number sign. If it’s placed before a tag, it’s a hash/hashmark/hashtag.
No one would pronounce “#foo” as “pound foo” any more than they’d call a #2 pencil a “pound two pencil”. Because “pound” is clearly not the right name in either context.
Americans have been comfortable using different names for the symbol in different contexts since long before hashtags even existed. So when websites started using them and referred to them as “hashtags”, that was fine. It was a new context so it could use whichever name it wanted. (Well, “octothorpe-tag” is probably far too unwieldy to catch on.)
Of course if we’re talking about the symbol without a specific context, then we have to pick one of the names. For most Americans, that “default” name is probably still “pound”. Twenty years ago I’d definitely say that, but even then it wasn’t ubiquitous. It wasn’t uncommon to hear it referred to as a hash. And it seems like the use of “pound” has declined and the use of hash has increased as people now spend more time online and less time dialing phone numbers. There’s also a generational divide with older people more likely to say “pound” and younger people more likely to say “hash”.
It’s because it comes from the lb pound symbol, which became ℔, which when written quickly and sloppily became a sort of hash symbol, and then it became the # symbol we know today. Pound is the more accurate name for the context it came from.
Guess they don’t think their readership is smart enough to know what a “sock puppet” or “puppet” account is.
How. Fucking. Pathetic. Do you have to be. To have an entire army of sycophants. And that’s still not enough for your ego.
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.
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.
You can always feel empathy. The more you try the better person you’ll become.
Don’t be like sad rich guy, be better.
This is the way.
Billionaire’s aren’t people and do not deserve our empathy. I am better. I don’t exploit thousands to hundreds of thousands of people’s lives for my own personal, shortsighted gain.
It’s not about them.
No, just… eat them.
It’s not like there’s any positive change waiting to happen from that thing. You can’t be tolerant of the intolerant. We joke a lot about Twixxer and how insecure Muxx is, but the truth remains - he is a real and direct threat to a lot of people.
Let’s not forget the beast behind the human behind the image.
Being a halfway decent dad has to be easier than all this. Plenty of guys manage it
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I don’t think he has feelings about anything you mentioned (those are valid points though).
It’s just image maintenance to him.
At that level of money and wealth and living, you dont feel bad at all, cause everything is okay. He felt great just saying it and 1000 of people read it . Anybody who does no agreww with him is just small fraction of people who did not say anything, so its a win for him. You see this in most of the rich people, if there is strike going outside and of one of the operation manager just close the door of factory and contains it outside , its a win for them , unless something is not touching their money directly and helping them blind side problem its a SOLID win in their books .its like they can’t/don’t think that far. It’s side effect of ingot mine , so you can go away mentality, they become highly myopic
Rich stupid guy doing things is not technology. Why is this community flooded with this guy doing or saying things?
I’m keen to join another tech focused community, with less non-tech spam, any recommendations?
Oh Elon. You’re gonna need a whole lot more Ketamine to convince yourself you’re a good father.
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.
This is some “John Barron” energy. Imagine having fucktons of money and still being a whiny crybaby like these fellows.
Have you seen his mom (Maybe Musk)? I don’t think she ever loved Elon, or anyone. Maybe Dalmatians.
You sure she wasn’t just playing nice in order to turn them into a coat?
Very well put. He and many others create a lot of misery chasing what they think will make them happy rather than what actually will. Figuring out the difference is a personal process that you have to want, though.
I always figured he was some kind of workaholic that can never have enough. That is sometimes good for your bank balance but it is often not good for YOU.
I wouldn’t exactly call him a workaholic. He spends quite a few hours a day browsing Twitter.
I did wonder if I’d get a reply like this since it has the word “work” in it, lol.
I’m sure he tweets from the office a lot.
Money won’t make you happy for sure.
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?
Celebrities do use PR agencies but Musk is known for not having PR teams at any of his companies.
He is the stupidest billionaire.
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.
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.
Aah, yes. I too love corporate bullshit lame responses. Damn you Musk for not having PR department!
Not as much as I love a Musk simp.
Oh thanks! Right, I guess when he fired them and that is when he became unpopular lol
If he has a PR team they are doing a terrible job.
He fired them all or paid them so little they don’t care
It’s called a sockpuppet account you noobs. 🙄
😅
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?
Nice try, Elon.
We are all Elon on this blessed day.
It’s elons all the way down.
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.
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.
X has two rules. Don’t talk shit about Elon, and don’t talk shit about the dictators he wants to get cozy to.
Sad man.
Indeed, the level of obsession some people have with Elon Musk is kind of ridiculous.
I think it’s because he’s clearly a villain like Trump, and there is clearly a different legal system for him, like Trump.
Nobody who has lived like him and wasn’t a billionaire would get security clearance. People focus on him because he’s out here Saying The Quiet Parts Out Loud, and so he’s a really good one to focus on if you’re trying to make a point about corporations and their love of fascism and hate of actual capitalism and competition.
What can I say? Everyone hates a hypocrite, especially one who uses his power to shove his hypocrite-ass in everyone’s face. Like all hypocrites with power, he does it to show everyone he has power to get away with what you can’t. People do tire of that, and they would like to see this fucking prick strung up by his fucking neck by people who have actually faced real suffering in their lives, who finally got sick of his fat whiny baby bitch ass.
Ignoring him certainly wouldn’t make him go away, and it’s a good thing to have more and more people waking up to the fact that the rich aren’t any smarter or more capable than us, and Musk is a perfect example. They have created a media ecosystem which praises the rich as somehow better than the average person, but the reality is they just had money, power, and connections. They aren’t smart, they aren’t capable, they aren’t brilliant, they are just as shortsighted and stupid as the fucking rest of us, and it’s helpful to be able to point at people who really exemplify that, like Musk.
What can I say, it’s helpful to have a Free Speech Warrior who clearly only cares about his speech. It makes it easier to open people’s eyes to how fucked our entire society is for handing the keys to the kingdom to these fucking idiots to begin with.
Further, almost nobody would say the same thing about people bitching about, say, Rupert Murdoch, but there’s plenty of people who watch Murdoch’s moves as well, because he also owns right-wing media companies that intend to massage the narrative to the right-wing “reality.” I heard the names like Murdoch, Bill O’Reilly, and Tucker Carlson thrown around and complained about for years before Musk became a target because of his shenanigans. Nobody says “people are obsessed with Carlson!”
This is some late 90s web forum admin tyrant drama. Wait until he finds out he can use phpmyadmin to edit other peoples posts.
Encyclopedia Dramatica could do two full editions on this guy alone
I’ll admit I laughed at “entreprettention whore”.
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time
He probably merits a 200 page Kiwi Farms thread, if they also didn’t suck him off for being “one of us”
You know, I always thought money would make me happy. But he seems so much more insecure and miserable than I ever was.
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.