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The German equivalent of The Onion, Der Postillon, made a joke article about Mastodon and I am baffled at how many people seem to think it is real 🤦‍♂️

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Fast Forward Freddy (I/mine)

@Gargron Have you printed out your code yet? ;^)

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Eva Leyst

@Gargron You can study the effect of long-time brain drain (84-year-study) on the German people. Smartness sinks like a Russian canonboat. (me traitor! born deutsch)

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Michael

@Gargron Uuh, still talking to us, Mr Millionaire, or do you have a social media team now?

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Laurens

@Gargron TBF, many people believe the news they read on The Onion as well 😅

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@Gargron en français ça donne :
Après le rachat spectaculaire de Twitter, voici le prochain coup de théâtre : le milliardaire américain Elon Musk acquiert également le concurrent de Twitter, Mastodon. Le service de microblogging devrait changer de propriétaire pour 1,3 million de dollars.

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@Gargron

Suite !!
Apparemment, le fondateur de Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, n'a pas pu résister longtemps aux offres du patron de Tesla - avec cette vente, il deviendra millionnaire du jour au lendemain. Dès le 1er novembre, Musk dirigera toutes les activités opérationnelles de Mastodon, qui portera désormais le nom de Muskodon.

Sur son compte Mastodon, Musk a posté le message "the mammoth is released" peu après l'annonce de l'accord.

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@Gargron Selon Musk, rien ne devrait changer dans un premier temps pour les dizaines d'utilisateurs de Mastodon. Les critiques craignent toutefois que Donald Trump n'apparaisse bientôt sur la plate-forme.
De nombreux utilisateurs de Mastodon se sont montrés indignés par ce rachat et ont annoncé qu'ils se tourneraient à l'avenir vers la start-up de Fürth "Zöglfrexer", qui ne compte actuellement que 7 utilisateurs, comme alternative.

Merci @DeepLearning

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Guido Drehsen 💥

@Gargron
well what does this tell us about our society if the people are not able to distinguish between satires and facts ...
And then probably a lot of them have not even read the article at all, just the headline, and did not check what the Postillion is about. 😉

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Playerlist

@Gargron congratulations on becoming a millionaire. :P

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@Gargron "good" old times when my former sociopathic boss spent his whole afternoons reading Der Postillion and using those fake news just to try to be funny among the team. Half of those were lost in translation

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Jeroen Habets

@Gargron hast du muskodon.com bereits registriert 🤓 ?

der-postillon.com/2022/10/musk

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Lipk

@Gargron of course Musk didn't buy Mastodon, Tusk did

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Stationkeeper

@Gargron We've got "The Beaverton" in Canada and they get that a lot too. The problem with really good satire is that it sounds believable. Of course, people need to think for longer than a few seconds to get past that. Analasys is not our strong point these days, unfortunately.

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Jim Jones

@Gargron What was the joke?

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King Leo

@Gargron , eine Menge Menschen halten den Postillon für eine seriöse Zeitung, noch viel mehr glauben das von der BILD. 🤷‍♂️

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Yushlan🏳️‍⚧️

@Gargron der-postillon.com/2022/10/musk

1.3 Million USD? What do you think, is that an insult or a compliment?

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Eric

@Gargron is there an English translation?

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Mr. Inbetween

@Gargron
I read some days ago, that humor and the understanding of jokes demands intelligence, education, culture, refinement. You need context, reference and cross-reference to get jokes. Well, now...

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