one brazilian doc compared his views & likes of videos posted at the same time on instagram and X. He did it a few times, in different times, different subjects.
result: insta 10x > X
and he has somewhat LESS followers on insta than on X.
The true "mass" is still on meta, at least in Brazil.
Besides, the advertising income of Meta is WAY bigger than X.
One of the problems of Musk is how to make X profitable.
twitter is fucked
i aint calling it the letter next to z
its full of bluecheck democrat bots cause election
the app is full of ads
login wall
videos play in 320p
feed algo has aids
it is hard for twitter. between a rock and a hard place
Big advertisers want censorship. But if X goes full nazi, why would a normie exit Meta apps to see the same stuff?
if it goes free... no corporate ads. And.. he will never be as free as nostr (not even as GAB)...
Musk also owns Tesla and Space X, heavly dependent on legislation and government sales.
do you think the deep state hasn't other ways to hurt him?
Musk fired a lot of blue-haired pierced tatooed commie lesbian censors when he tuned down censorship..
and soon, he will HAVE to follow UE new censorship laws.
totally get elons tight position
i still think elon would have gotten far more value just supporting open source things like nostr, keet, simplex etc
just look at the relatively small amount nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m gave and the results
at the end of the day we can grassroots this with bitcoin too tho the big names have helped immensely, we have hidden stars in the names that got things rolling like nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
he paid 41B for the user base
not for infrastructure, as twitter did not have its own servers - BTW, the dependency on Big Tech clouds is another leverage the deep state has over X
not for the code - most of the code was censorship, "trending", data mining and focused ads calculations.
not for the employees - he dismissed most of them.
From the beginning Musk declared to have big ambitions - not just tweets, a broad app with everything from blogs to shopping.
Did he believe the user base was the key to get quicker results?
He would have to create an open source + open protocol business model... Possible?
At the $$ scale Elon Musk would care about? What about other clients competing for users?
Heck, I am not even sure how many of the usual proprietary social networks are really profitable without selling user data and deep state subsides (there are very dark tales)
his stated goal or a goal was to preserve freespeech
the user base is not the biggest but influential
likely elon owning twitter will shift election, which may have been his real goal in which case there likely wasnt another choice
something like nostr will be far better for freespeech and probably an 'everything' app so if he is serious he will adopt similar, being the innovative engineer he is he would have to atleast explore p2p etc to cut server costs
