I apologize but I’m finding it tougher and tougher to want to hold dialogue with someone who is skeptical of seemingly everything.

Skepticism is healthy and should be exercised whenever the situation calls for it, but it’s also tiring when the footwork is minimal to disprove it. This is not aimed solely at you; we’ve tried to be as transparent as possible and last week it’s suggested perhaps we allowed a vulnerability to be exploited to push communities on people and everything is always met with this air of disbelief. Soren works full time and made this because he believes it’s necessary in his offtime, for you. I work full time and try to assist with the social aspect of it because I believe in him and this. I only try to do things to make it easier or better, or clearer for people – that’s it. There isn’t even a point to trying to have an ulterior motive here.

I don’t code and I would not feel comfortable asking someone else to. Using https://the-federation.info/platform/73 one could probably write a script that goes through each instance and adds every community.

I was using an account I had labeled as a bot to subscribe to every community listed but then a massive surge of people joined and I couldn’t keep up chronicling everything. I had all of beehaw and a lot of lemmy added.

If you want to see other instance’s communities here, subscribe to them from an account here. Sounds counter-intuitive but it’ll allow others here to see and join.

He didn’t need their money, he just wanted it.

Oh, okay.

But as the richest man in the world, he could cover their stakes.

As previously stated, no. He couldn’t. He needed their money just to acquire the company, he did not have enough liquid assets himself to make the purchase and sold a lot of his stock in Tesla beyond just the equity shares. If Twitter fails he’ll be on the losing end financially for once, so he needs it to be successful. The courts did the world a favor and forced a purchase by actually upholding the law.

He owns it outright doesn’t he?

Others own equity, approximately 1/3 of the initial payment he made was from some of his close friends. Close friends or not, they’re not going to let him off the hook for about 7b, additionally he could not afford to pay them if he shuts it down, he had to borrow between 2 and 3 billion to secure the deal in the first place beyond what they’d invested.

If Twitter becomes profitable, they get paid and everyone on their side is happy. If Twitter doesn’t become profitable, Elon is the one that takes the fall and they get paid anyway so they don’t care, although I’m sure they’d prefer more than their investment back.

Of course the decision is yours, the point of recommendations should be 1) relevance and 2) quality. There’s a disconnect between consumerism and profiting here and that’s what’s being pointed out.

Yes. Now ask yourself as a consumer of videos: when a video is recommended to me, should it be based on what picture comes up or should it be based on the quality or accuracy of the content of the video?

The reboot changed a lot about the story while sticking true to the better parts of what made her a great character. She always had development that set her apart during a time in gaming where sentient gloves, geckos and plumbers ruled the open world, but it felt like they treated her as if she was an actual human this time around.

The suggestion of “holding them to account” is so laughably ironic.