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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 115 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is so frustrating!!!

Temporarily???

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I find the nazis fascinating for their ability to co-opt symbols like the swastika. Could you imagine that happening today? Taking, for instance, the peace sign, punisher symbol, or Gadsden flag and turning them into quiet hate symbols?

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait, what did they do to the peace sign? Also, what about the hand signal?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

They tried to get it for a minute after the okay hand sign. Succeeded for a bit before it was relinquished

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Any symbol they would have chosen would have ended up as the Nazi symbol. Just like the name Hitler or that specific mustache style.

But the swastika specifically ending as the symbol you can mostly thank to Heinrich Schliemann and Émile-Louis Burnouf finding swastika adorned pottery at a Troy excavation in the 1870's, and declaring them to be the ancient symbols of the Aryans. https://humanjourney.us/language/external-symbols/swastika-the-hidden-power-of-a-symbol/

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

As a quick aside, the term Aryan was also co-opted by the Nazis. It originally referred to the Indo-Europeans as whole, and well the Swastika was present in European art until the early modern period namely as a form of repeating pattern for say rugs.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

The cross/crucifix is quickly becoming a hate symbol. (If it wasn't already)

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The whole site has been in disrepair for the past 3 years, and with all the breaches and issues lately, this downtime included, you can see the result clearly.

If it makes you guys feel even better, just know that such failure to maintain software for so long, mostly complex and widely used like Xitter, means that it won't get fixed easily at all. The knots are everywhere and will require even more time to untangle. Musk destroys everything he touches and I am at least happy about "this" one.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 22 points 2 months ago

Oh no! Anyway…

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

No one cares

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

Why are there still tens of thousands of people still on Shitter???

[–] NotAGamer@lemmy.org 15 points 2 months ago

I would be devastated but I don't and never have used xitter.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago

impressive. but i bet they can't go down for a whole forever

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Lucky bastards.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 14 points 2 months ago

The only thing I don’t like about this is the word “temporarily”. Oh well.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who even uses this scumbags platform

[–] Yttra@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

"But I only use twitter for 'art'", or "I just follow a few small communities" are the usual excuses these days.

I hear the same excuses as I did for Reddit, only I'd consider Twitter usage considerably less defensible :)

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Scumbag owned platform for scumbags.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

xAI bought X right? So maybe they can run it on all of those servers xAI is illegally powering with unapproved generators.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And nothing of value to humanity was lost.

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tens of thousands of users? Or tens of thousands of bots?

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago
[–] SoloCritical@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

“Dozens I tell you! Dozens!”

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

He did the DOGE on his twitter minions.

[–] SirFasy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Geez, who would have thunk that a complex system needs to be maintained constantly.. apparently not Elmo.

[–] cmlael67@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That would explain the uptick in idiocy on Threads.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I'd shed a tear if I gave a chit

[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

lol vegeta posted this xD

I think that's what ill call it now

"The website formally known as Twitter"

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh gosh, I am so sorry, nevermind.

[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Why are there still 10s of any users on that hellwash of a platform?

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago
[–] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

it would be amusing to bring back the fail whale

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Sweaty, stank-ass armpit if the internet. In a trench, doused in gasoline and set ablaze is the only outcome I will accept.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

This is news?