Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

  • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2893·
    10 months ago

    Honestly, outrage-bait / circlejerk articles like these is why I stopped using twitter and reddit to begin with. Hur dur, Elon bad, upvotes please. I don’t disagree - I just don’t want to see this kind of low-effort posts, which OP seems to excel at. Time for a mute.

    • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
      403·
      10 months ago

      The article is honestly really interesting for the details it gives. It’s easy enough to dismiss anything as clickbait, but sometimes it just sounds like that old tired “Trump Derangement Syndrome” BS.

      • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s clickbait, but personally I’m not that interested in a retelling of how he started gutting twitter shortly after he bought it last year. Maybe it’s not this article per se, just the straw of musk spam that broke the camels back.

        • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          10 months ago

          Honestly, outrage-bait / circlejerk articles like these . . . I just don’t want to see this kind of low-effort posts, which OP seems to excel at. . . .

          Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s clickbait . . .

          Your words, my emphasis.

          • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            14·
            10 months ago

            Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort. And I do still think posting it here is just that.

            • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              Outrage-bait is clickbait. More specifically, it’s a subset of clickbait.

              Wikipedia:

              Ragebait, rage-bait, rage baiting, and outrage baiting are similar Internet slang neologisms referring to manipulative tactics that feed on readers’ anxieties and fears. They are all forms of clickbait. . . . The term rage bait, which has been cited since at least 2009, is a negative form of click-baiting as it relies on manipulating users to respond in kind to offensive, inflammatory “headlines”, memes, tropes, or comments.

              • sab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don’t deliver. Today I learned.

    • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeoEnglish
      28·
      10 months ago

      This one isn’t click bait. It’s not about him saying something dumb, it’s about something really dumb he did and in depth. If any other CEO did what this article outlines it would still be worth reading after getting some popcorn ready.