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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 111 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is so frustrating!!!

Temporarily???

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

No one cares

[–] Steve@startrek.website 21 points 1 month ago

Oh no! Anyway…

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

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

[–] NotAGamer@lemmy.org 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Lucky bastards.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And nothing of value to humanity was lost.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago
[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] SirFasy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] SoloCritical@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

“Dozens I tell you! Dozens!”

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

He did the DOGE on his twitter minions.

[–] cmlael67@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That would explain the uptick in idiocy on Threads.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'd shed a tear if I gave a chit

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh gosh, I am so sorry, nevermind.

[–] sidtirouluca@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

lol vegeta posted this xD

I think that's what ill call it now

"The website formally known as Twitter"

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

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

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

it would be amusing to bring back the fail whale

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

This is news?