@Gargron They missed a beat by not photoshopping him with a hammer in his hand and the caption "let that tool in". 🙄

@Gargron The main question is when will it finally be renamed to Muskodon? 😂

@Gargron As always. :) A few people really don't get the point.

@Gargron I hope you hold out for a better offer.

@Gargron It's shocking how many people always fall for Postillions satire....

@Gargron

@derpostillon also regularly publishes the most bizarre responses / comments to their stories. Really looking forward to that for the Muskodon story.

@Gargron Let me guess: "Elon Musk buys Mastodon"?

@Gargron

WHAT? I joined Zöglfrexer for nothing :(

;)

(I bet that instance pops up soonish)

@Gargron There are an astonishing number of people on the net who have no idea what "Der Postillon" actually is.
These people really believe everything.

@Gargron I know! That's an indication of what we're up against!

@Gargron hast du bitte einmal den link zum Beitrag .. weiss grade nicht was da war...

Well, @Gargron, media literacy... Some people just don't get it 🤣

For reference: "Elon #Musk buys microblogging service #Mastodon for $1.3 million" 🤡
https://www.der-postillon.com/2022/10/muskodon.html

@gargron Grats to 1,3M€ ;)

Link to article mentioned:
https://www.der-postillon.com/2022/10/muskodon.html

@Gargron you know what I've always said, Eugen. Germans shouldn't do comedy

@Gargron Yeah, sure. Why should I trust someone who manages a Muskodon server?

For everyone else: We will see us on Zöglfrexer!

🙃

@Gargron

😜 🙄 😩

https://www.der-postillon.com/2022/10/muskodon.html

@Gargron #Muskodon scheint auf den April zurückzugehen, wo die Übernahme angekündigt wurde. Hab es gestern zum ersten Mal gelesen.

@Gargron
A social media buddy told me about it...not all of us knew it was Onion heavy!

@Gargron Muskodon? 😅 https://www.der-postillon.com/2022/10/muskodon.html

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

@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)

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

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

@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.

@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.

@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. 😉

@Gargron congratulations on becoming a millionaire. :P

@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

@Gargron hast du muskodon.com bereits registriert 🤓 ?

https://www.der-postillon.com/2022/10/muskodon.html

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

@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.

@Gargron What was the joke?

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

@Gargron is there an English translation?

@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 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. 😩

@Gargron
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