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Paul Graham didn’t even have any URL or Mastodon account identified in his profile. It being on his personal website was enough to ban him. What a train wreck.

@polipope @tony Musk is technically right but he's also suffering from "massive success at too young an age". It's gone to his head and he can't see how he's got personal problems and making an utter mess of his new project.

I've seen it before. Without a CEO to keep his ego in check there's no balance at a management level. He's totally cratering himself.

@hollybrigstocke @polipope @tony
He's surrounded by sycophants and incentivized to believe that his success is earned through exceptional merit.

Being idolized is poisonous to self-reflection or grounded thought. Combine with incredible power and ability to evade real consequences, and you wind up with billionaire derangement syndrome.

Even if birdsite actually goes down in flames, he'll still be unimaginably wealthy and almost certainly face no meaningful consequences.

@hankteford @polipope @tony Yeah. I've seen it all before. He wouldn't be the first to come a cropper as he has.

As for being insulated from the consequences there's too many careerists and grifters around like that. The damage people like Musk have done is off the charts. Just look at the way the Tory party has crashed the UK. It's obscene.

@tony lol apparently you can't refer to a site that might link to mastodon

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The Twitter debacle continues to reach new levels of absurdity. At the rate things are going the place will be a ghost town by February.

@tony it's not about alternate sites.. it's about removing media/oversite/accountability. Remove anyone with a different opinion with a big following, remove the pushback from whatever agenda you have.

@tony the actual rule he violated was hurting Elon's feelings

@tony bruh a vast majority of active profiles on twitter are violating these new "rules" cause everyone has a link to a website or something to other social media

@tony i wonder if that means reporting them will get them suspended, or do they not have an actual moderation team anymore..

@tony

Google next? It has a link to my Mastodon account. Could someone please let #elon know of this disgraceful free promotion ;-)

@tony So I have #webfinger setup such that @kurtseifried redirects here... so if I post my email.... err...

@tony no I just looked as of 7:40 EST his account is still there.

@tony he sure is a volatile businessman. I wonder what the board of directors of Tesla think of his wasting all this time messing up Twitter rather than focusing on a business with actual investors.

@tony

Since links are out, I built an animated GIF maker that folks can use to let their Twitter followers know they've moved to Mastodon.

I won't be surprised if using it ends in suspension, but at least I'll have let folks know where I am.

#twittermigration

mastodon-gif-maker.alanwsmith.

@TheIdOfAlan @tony Thanks for this I used it and it's there in pride of place you know where. How terribly useful!

@tony he said the word mastodon, that's a paddlin

@tony Yeah, so I went to all the trouble to modify my profile and Wonder-Boy goes and reverses the policy. Stability sells right?

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