@Gargron Reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/AteTheOnion/

@Gargron demand a retraction and apology or sue them for liable.

@Gargron was that the silly story that Musk had bought Mastodon too? What's really amazing (and disappointing) about that was that people think it is even possible.

@Gargron In the US, The Onion posted an article about a Texas politician that the politician then quoted on their web site!

@Gargron I've learned a lot about human gullibility since 2016. More than I wanted to know, in fact.

@Gargron 😂 Have you registered Zöglfrexer as an alternative domain name though? 🧐

@Gargron
That amount of money sounds like what he has in his bill fold at the moment. Def at least make him go to the ATM. :P

I can't read German, so I haven't seen it before, but I know with The Onion, I can tell an out of context screenshot is from there by the font? Its very distinct. I imagine Der Postillon is like that too.

People are just unobservant.

Ugh.

@Gargron I wrote a blog post about Mastodon and the Twitter buyout on my blog Ventil earlier today. If you want to read it quickly and tell me if anything is wrong that would be great (if there are things I misunderstood about Mastodon or the Fediverse I am so sorry, and if so I will correct it immediately)🌷🌷🌷Here is the link: https://marialivgallery.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-buys-twitter-and-people-leave-for-decentralized-alternatives/

@Gargron "Muskodon" is pretty funny

@Gargron the joke or mastodon as social network?

@Gargron That’s pretty funny.

@Gargron For those of us that used Twitter primarily for news, I wrote a post about how to keep up with news (specifically immigration news, policy, and research) without Twitter here. Might be useful for some people.

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/keeping-up-with-immigration-news

@Gargron I mean, people in the Anglosphere are fooled by the English language The Onion all the time! Don't worry about it, it helps to think of it like a sort of bare minimum filter :p

@Gargron people can be gullible. 😩

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What I appreciate most is the @derpostillon@gnusocial.de's ability to make satire look like news. The greatest fun about it is that then usually the big fake news shitstorm breaks loose ...

@Gargron it's generally so that many people in the comments thought Position is real. I often not knowing if it's their wired humor or if they realy think it's real.

@Gargron can we blame them? “everyone” knows germans lack humour! ;)

@Gargron welcome to hell