Musk says Twitter will no longer have a light mode, making dark mode the default option

Funny, knowing Elon, I assumed he would have gone with a whites only mode.

It's like a 15 year old got ahold of his mom's credit card and bought a social media corporation, and now he's up in his room, all juiced up on Doritos and Mountain Dew, banging away at his keyboard and giggling to himself.

I was thinking pretty much the same thing. He’s got the sensibility of a teenage boy. He thinks things like the letter X and the color black are totally cool, and he thinks naming his company “Space-Sex” and one of its spacecraft “Big Fuckin’ Rocket” is the height of humor.
- I think black is cool. But only because I'm lazy and it by default looks good with every other color and doesn't clash.
mark is a robot, elon is a 15 year old, both wearing grown up suits! all signs point to yes tbh
Spot on. He's been spending far too much time on 4chan.
His parents should have been a little firmer with him. "Young man, I don't want to see you on that computer until your comedy is at least at a Colbert level!"

Cool, can't wait until they ban the use of the letter 'e' for non-verified users and wii all hav to wrayt layk this

Avoiding the letter E is already a creative writing style, except you don't hav to wrayt layk this. There's even a Mastodon instance dedicated to it and a funny writeup about what happened when they came across another mastodon instance where the letter E is the only allowed letter.
- I was initially excited to hear about the Oulipo community, but they seem to have an very limited take on what Oulipo is/was. There is a lot more to Oulipo than lipograms (avoiding a character) as even the Wikipedia page says.

Someone please make a lemmy client with a word filtering option so I can stop hearing about elmo

Or just scroll past things you don’t want to read about? That is a very viable option.
- Not viable when every single post is about him.

I can do you one better with a Tampermonkey script that will replace every reference to his name on every webpage to either "the biggest twat on the planet" or "this dipshit", depending on which works better syntactically.

    
// ==UserScript==
// @name         Text Replace
// @version      0.1
// @description  Text Replace
// @author       SiameseDream
// @include     *
// @grant        none
// @namespace beepboop
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

var replaceArry = [
    [/ Elon Musk/gi,' the biggest twat on the planet'],
    [/Elon Musk/gi,'The biggest twat on the planet'],
    [/ Mr. Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
    [/ Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
    [/Mr. Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
    [/Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
    // etc.
];
var numTerms    = replaceArry.length;
var txtWalker   = document.createTreeWalker (
    document.body,
    NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
    {   acceptNode: function (node) {
            //-- Skip whitespace-only nodes
            if (node.nodeValue.trim() )
                return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;

            return NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP;
        }
    },
    false
);
var txtNode     = null;

while (txtNode  = txtWalker.nextNode () ) {
    var oldTxt  = txtNode.nodeValue;

    for (var J  = 0;  J < numTerms;  J++) {
        oldTxt  = oldTxt.replace (replaceArry[J][0], replaceArry[J][1]);
    }
    txtNode.nodeValue = oldTxt;
}
})();

In practice it looks like this

Options that empower you:
Downvote button
Ignore button
Unsubscribe button
- Downvoting is kind of unfair because it is technology based, ignore button just ignores that specific post, unsubscribe unsubscribes me from all technology posts which I don't want
Why didn't you downvote this thread? In kbin I can see who downvoted it and you're not there.
- Beeshaw actually won't let you downvote. Has it's pros and cons
- Because the downvote button isn't for what I personally don't want to see, it's for what isn't relevant. As much as I don't want to see this, it is technology
Elmo loves you even if you don't love Elmo

Why is Elon Musk J.P from Grandma's Boy?

surely this will save them

I have a suggestion for him: wouldn't it be a development cost savings if Twitter just provided an API and users could see it on their own clients?

Hasn't it been in dork mode for a while now? Oh wait, I misread... ;)

JFC guys, for a group that says that don't like musk you sure think about him alot.

Discussion does not equal admiration.
- Seriously. People were talking about Jeffrey Dahmer a lot in 1991, but there weren't any contrarian pimple-dicks jumping out of the bushes and shouting "He's living rent-free inside your head!" Dahmer was news. People tend to think about recent events.
Gee, I wonder why. Could the fact that he keeps making unpopular changes to one of the largest social media platforms out there have anything to do with it? Nah, those hundreds of millions of people just don't like his face or whatever.
What point are you trying to make?
- That ignoring demagogues doesn't in fact make them stop acting like demagogues.
Unfortunately, billionaires have an outsize influence on the lives of regular people. Like this shitstain buying one of the most important social media properties in the world and turning it into a safe space for fascists. He's contributing to the downfall of human civilization and we absolutely need to talk about that.
We don't like eating shit but when we're forced to it's the only thing we can think about.

Death to ummm Twitter or whateger

He already backtracked because of public outrage, dark will be default, light will be an option, dim black (or whatever it was called) is no more. Like 15hrs later. Yet another clueless idiotic decision that backfired...

Huh, I guess app users are fucked, but what for the website I bet there would be workarounds.

Yup. You can't stop a browser that has the capability to pick and choose what elements it downloads, and can also insert its own.

Another not good decision from Elon.

Musk continues to make decisions that he thinks are cool but nobody asks for