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I appreciate that this article from July in the San Francisco Standard tells me everything I need to know.
Nikita Bier is a serial entrepreneur with the heart of a troll
Imagine joining X in June of 2025 and thinking you “made it.” Gross.
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by King@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.zip
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calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I don’t even understand what it is they supposedly did. How does a link deceive people into thinking it’s a video? And why would that artificially increase its reach? And isn’t the point of paying for ads to have a specific predetermined reach and for that reach to be independent of user interaction? I’m so confused.
cron@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
And if this is a known exploit, why not fix it?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They fired all the capable people.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Seems like people who regularly use the word “irony” don’t often appreciate when it truly occurs.
doleo@lemmy.one 3 weeks ago
like rain on your wedding day
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Wasn't NOT advertising on X said to be illegal collusion against the platform? Shouldn't they be thrilled to host ads for the EU?
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Only if you collude with other companies to do do…
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
My people, please. There’s no confusion here. It’s simply that Xitter* does not care about truth. It’ll ban, sue, or whatever depending on what benefits a certain Nazi with fake hair.
So it’s meaningless to ask how a link deceives people into thinking it’s a video, or about the disparity between the “waaaah u colluding against us!” drama and this situation, or why they didn’t fix the exploit. (Or if there’s an exploit to begin with.)
*read the X as SH.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
It is in fact the point of the troll, to make the people railing against its unfairness look stupid and whiny.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Blue checkmarks fund Nazis… grow a spine and delete your account. Step away from the Nazi table. Simple as that.
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The badge of dishonor, I call it.
Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I mean… Stop using the platform?
girst@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
to post a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video
… what? but it is a video: xcancel.com/EU_Commission/…/1996968219286904832
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Those comments. 🤮
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are Nazis, don’t expect anything else. It’s Twitter after all, the platform that’s openly a Nazi bar.
Draegur@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
All these fucking chuds complaining about censorship. I wish they fucking WOULD get censored so i could stop hearing them BITCHING about it.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
At this point I wish EU would grow a spine and just put out a final post saying that at the very least they’re moving all operations to BlueSky. It’d be amazing if they moved to Mastodon, but that’s still a pipedream.
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
the eu has been on mastodon for years. they run their own instance.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Huh, good to know.
white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I was about to say that I would fully expect that any government entity should run their own instance of various federated services. And all departments/whatever should be on said instance. This would go for chrt platforms as well, such as matrix
atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m so mad that you took money I rightfully grifted that I’m not going to let you give me money anymore?
Did he think. Ha. Never mind. I can’t even say it with a straight face. God he’s an infantile lunatic.
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
[deleted]6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The account is 2 hours old. I guess he tried to submit too many posts at the same time.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why are any headlines being written about Xitter that aren’t about its bankruptcy.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Because propaganda firms often do run at a loss, making money not being the real point.
Areexor@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Doge is working in the EU now and actually cutting wasted instead of what they did in the USA.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Drugs are bad, kids.
Areexor@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I was referring to ad spending on X by the EU commission.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
The only doge in the EU are actual dogs.
We don’t let ultra rich buy themselves into the government.
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
LOL imagine banning an account from an organization that just find you 130 million Euros and having the gall to pretend like it’s not about the fine…
Why even bother? Who is going to believe that?
someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sadly, there are too many stupid people in the world who would just gobble up that shit.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Based on historical trends I think we can safely say that 30% of humans are dumb enough to believe anything, another 30% will believe anything that mocks those dummies, and the other 30% don’t vote.