Part of me wonders if it’s an attempt to tank the SEO, so people can’t search for or news or easily talk about the site anymore - because it’s been nothing but bad.
Can we also talk about how absurd that picture at the bottom of the login page is? It looks like something a warez site would have as its landing page in like 2003. Made by some guy named xXx_l33tz3r0_xXx
Haha, this makes me actually nostalgic thinking about some of the warez sites I frequented back in 2002/2003! Scanning for “pubs” with scetchy software was what I considered a good time back then.
Meta’s rebranding at least makes sense. The company has been more than Facebook for a long time, so collecting everything under a different umbrella isn’t too far fetched. Facebook still exists as a product, so they haven’t thrown away all the brand value. Google did kind of the same with Alphabet.
Rebranding Twitter to X doesn’t make sense at all.
Especially because they bought a bunch of companies that weren't Facebook. Another example is Google rebranding as Alphabet. Those make complete sense.
But they're not just re-branding. Twitter is now under some kind of corporate shell company. I haven't seen much coverage of that, but my suspicion is that it's intended to act as some kind of insulator to contain Twitter's debts.
Like when they break a company into pieces and put everyone's debts and no assets into a single part and then that part declares bankruptcy and all the debt magically goes away, leaving everything else with lots of assets and no debts and a future that looks really rosy. I can't help but think that this is something similar to that.
Wow, I wish I could split myself up into separate entities to bankrupt part of so that I can get away Scott free. But alas, I’m a real person, not a company with “personhood.”
One of the most recognizeable brands from the past 20 years is suddenly changing it’s branding and throwing all that recognition into the trash. I don’t know why people keep acting like this isn’t worth talking about. I don’t give two shits about musk or Twitter and don’t even have Twitter accounts or whatever, but even I recognize this is a noteworthy change (and his reasons for doing it) for the world.
I actually do wonder whether he is trying to destroy it on purpose. Every step he’s taken is perplexing if he wanted the platform to actually succeed. Of course it is also possible he is just very very stupid.
I believe he wants to feel like he created this platform all by himself. He buys platforms and makes them his own. This is just him trying to make Twitter more his own. Ego
Elon can never let perceived slights go, like the Thai cave rescuer thing. He wanted PayPal to be called X and lost, now he’s rebuilding it 20 years later.
There was a conspiracy years ago that he was still alive and endorsed Trump or something like that. Or do you mean RFK Jr, who is running for president?
Worldcoin is a company who’s goal is to use AI to be able to identify a person by taking a picture of their eyes.
They are a for profit company which is extremely bad, and they have also started doing things which can be seen as very bad : like installing orbs as work of art which can take pictures and scan the eyes of people who gaze into the lens of the ball. news.artnet.com/…/worldcoin-orb-ai-2341500
Their “objective” of what they are saying is getting a way to identify a person. However they give to each person who dies it their eye hash, and 1 crypto coin, I think named after them. However them being a for profit company is very scary as we cannot know what they are doing with that data and if they will sell it or not.
I may see the usefulness of being able to identify someone. If that picture is real or not. Being able to unlock your phone in a more secure way…
However, if that company starts to sell the identity of the people which volunteered in the ai training, then it’s a huge privacy concern for those people.
Well if their goal was to train an AI capable to be integrated in mobiles phones to be able to scan the eyes of people to unlock it, then it would have been a great goal.
Tho I am not sure of what they really want.
Maybe a a way to get data and sell that data later. They have the hash for the eyes of the people who got scanned. So in the future maybe they can sell that (or get hacked), and advertising companies could use that for tracking people with theit AI.
Maybe what they are trying is getting a lot of noise to increase the value of their crypto (no idea what crypto and identity have in common) and do a quick cash grab with people buying in it.
Maybe their real goal is making an ai capable to identify everyone and sell that ai as said above in security devices but not in advertising.
Who knows. But right now the way they are collecting the data, is pretty bad.
In short, the Mali government took back the domain apparently. It’s now running under lemmy.fmhy.net but it started from scratch.
The admins originally tried to set up a script to move all users and posts to the new domain, but it was taking too long and users voted to just start over. Admins have a post saying they will try to move some community / mod posts over, but all users and communities are a clean slate.
Apparently some 4chan bots posting and cross posting some trash site to one kbin community. Apparently the best thing some people can find to do with their time is being a nuisance.
This seems to be an issue here. So many communities but many ofbthem where created by users with no intent if actually managing them. Some of the communities I’m seeing have been built by users who are no longer active.
I can’t say if the kbin.random community is the same. But if we have communities running in pure anarchy then this is an issue which may get much worse.
I think they’ve already anthraxed everyone who would give them their address and they aren’t smart enough to figure out how street signs and the numbers on houses work. But far be it upon me to impugn anyone’s intelligence.
I had to block the whole !random community because it was so out of hand. I was blocking the users and reporting the posts, but there were just too many. I can always unblock the community later after the mods clean things up.
Not sure what kinds of tools Lemmy mods have to prevent this sort of thing because it seems really obnoxious for users of all federated instances and also for the mods themselves to keep up with it
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