It already served its purpose. He bought it so he could control a narrative, used it to boost right wing voices, used it to capture media for the purposes of suppressing dissent to win an election. He took Russian and Saudi money to buy the platform for the expressed purpose of getting Trump elected.
He’s already used it to buy an election. He’s gotten plenty of value out of it.
There is a clear successor to X now, Bluesky, which means anyone not happy with X knows what their best option is.
My guess is, when X and Bluesky are roughly even in terms of active users, X’s user base will start to collapse and there will be a mass exodus to Bluesky.
I’m guessing the worst of the worst will hang back at Xitter because they’d otherwise be banned elsewhere, and it will be a cesspool not unlike 8chan.
Yep, nothing but the dregs will remain.
My guess is that the user base shifts will vary by nation and language. The rate of X enshitification and migration has hit different regions at different speeds.
The writing is on the wall for US users though. Twitter is the AOL or MySpace of this decade. It’s lame and not fun anymore, and Bsky is fun and very active.
I think Elon might try to intervene in that, either by regulations favoring his platform, or industrial sabotage. Maybe even try to get into the fediverse game, so X accounts could interact with Bluesky or Mastodon ones.
I don’t see how regulations can help him there, especially given the nature of the Web. Bluesky can always move offshore, beyond the reach of the US authorities.
I also imagine both Bluesky and Mastadon users will tell x users, loudly and clearly, to fuck off.
According to analysts at Emarketer, from when Musk acquired X in 2022 until 2025, they expect X to have lost 7 million monthly active users in the U.S.
The declining user base pales in comparison to the decline of X’s brand and value. According to a recent report from Brand Finance, X’s brand is now worth 673 million. The brand was valued at $5.7 billion before Musk’s takeover in 2022. When it comes to revenue, X’s revenue fell by 40 percent when compared to the prior year based on internal company data from June 2024.
Good! Some good news in my feed for a change.
That should be a lemmy community :) I would read a good news focused lemmy, although moderating something like that would be subjective and potentially difficult.
Maybe !upliftingnews@lemmy.world could work.
Not quite the same, but we do have “andfinally” for quirky and silly news.
https://feddit.uk/c/andfinally
Named after the tendency on TV to put lighthearted news pieces like these at the end, to give people something to smile about after all the depressing stuff.
oh interesting! subed.
On Lemmy:
Elsewhere:
You might like the !UpliftingNews@lemmy.world community.
Good! Let’s accelerate this trend. If you have friends or family still using X tell them to delete their account.
Don’t worry, Elon. The Russian bot farms will create more users every election cycle.
This image really enhances the content.
It’s a story about Elon Musk: so we have a Musk silhouette.
It’s also a story about X: so there’s a big phone with an X on it
Finally, it’s a story about users: so there’s a thumb
Like the great masters of old, whoever composed this image really managed to convey the essence of this story via this image, which very much enhances the story.
This person should work for national geographic. So poignant. So gripping. So utterly arresting.
Are u the artist lol
The collagist? I’m not
Is someone shutting down all the Russian bot servers or something?
Soon Xitter/Elon will purchase Truth Social from Trump for all the monies and they will be the same platform, under one overlord.
Long as the dregs stay put its all good
They’ll follow their prey.
Can’t lose what he’s never had, my love 💕
Well, ain’t that just a low down dirty shame? lol
I wish.
I wish I used x so I could change. I did sign up for mastodon, however I found out I cannot stand the format.
There are many different clients if you dislike the default one. Maybe give those a shot?
Technically I’m running a GoToSocial instead of Mastodon with my own custom client on my own server. It’s so much more lean.
I think it’s the medium, it’s so centered around persons and talking heads, that doesn’t gel with me. Software technically I like Mastodon, but I feel like I lose interest in checking it compared to Lemmy.
I like using mastodon to follow people and peertube content.
Lemmy I like because I can follow topics.
That’s it. I like following topics more than people
