[HN Gopher] DNS traffic spiked as Musk-Trump clash boosted Truth...
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DNS traffic spiked as Musk-Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%)
and X (+20%)
Author : emot
Score : 20 points
Date : 2025-06-06 20:54 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (twitter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
| Spivak wrote:
| It's genuinely the funniest thing that these two grown ass men
| are writing about each other in what is essentially their own
| private diaries. The enemies to lovers to enemies story just
| keeps getting spicier. The fanfic is going to be legendaty.
|
| I hope they each have a picture of each other on their dartboard.
| I hope Elon takes everything Trump ever game him and launches it
| into space in a fit of tearful rage.
| CoastalCoder wrote:
| It would be funnier if they weren't both trying to destroy my
| country in various ways.
| mindslight wrote:
| Seriously. It's heartening to see some kind of split, but
| depressing when you see it's just from Musk wanting to thump
| fundamentalism about tHe dEbT [0]. I guess Musk's excuse for
| being a true believer is that he was a newcomer to the
| Republican party? Republicans have been the more profligate
| spenders of "taxpayer money" for longer than I've been alive.
| Trump certainly slid right in to his new snake skin, I don't
| know why Musk couldn't.
|
| But really on reflection I'm back to my original appraisal
| wondering if it's all just kayfabe with Musk trying to keep
| the so-called "Libertarian" contingent on board, with
| monetary inflation part of the destructionist plan just being
| a minor let down.
|
| [0] Debt denominated in a currency we control is certainly
| indicative of something, but it isn't nearly as big of a deal
| as other countries losing confidence in the US. Ergo cutting
| scientific research, destroying academic institutions, and
| eliminating foreign policy outreach programs to "save money"
| actually makes our financial position _worse_.
| chen_dev wrote:
| > writing about each other in what is essentially their own
| private diaries
|
| And yet, those "diaries" are an incredibly effective way to
| control the public narrative.
| jampekka wrote:
| This. I find it hard to believe that these are really just
| spur-of-the-moment shitposts. May not be very systematically
| choreographed (although I wouldn't be surprised if so) but
| even the stupidest troll plays the audience. People just
| can't help but feed the trolls.
| guywithahat wrote:
| I mean X is one of the largest social networks on earth, a
| private diary would be more like using bluesky
| radeeyate wrote:
| What was meant is that Elon owns Twitter, while Trump owns
| Truth Social. These platforms are their "personal diaries."
| i80and wrote:
| It was incredibly fun reading and was very cathartic to see the
| explosion everybody knew had to eventually happen. At the same
| time, I don't see any way it all shakes out in a way that
| betters the country. I think it's likely we end up with a
| consolidation of Trump's authority.
| jaynetics wrote:
| That difference in spike sizes is interesting.
|
| I guess hardly anyone outside the US uses Truth Social, so that
| alone could perhaps explain the different impact of a US event on
| traffic. Or is there also a lack of organic baseline activity on
| Truth Social, and people only go there to read Trump's posts?
| TrainedMonkey wrote:
| Could also be post embedding because a bunch of news stories
| that embedded posts from both services. Presumably this would
| add some constant number of users to both platforms, but X is
| much bigger so percent wise spike is smaller.
|
| Edit: this is also data by Cloudflare so presumably only users
| using their DNS service.
| nurumaik wrote:
| I installed truth social just to check which screenshots of
| trump posts are true
| grudgen wrote:
| Orchestrated beef, purely for publicity
| razster wrote:
| Here's how I see it: both sides are keeping the public
| distracted with this "feud." Even major news outlets are
| treating it like celebrity gossip, with little focus on the
| real damage being done. I'm not buying into it.
| teaearlgraycold wrote:
| I don't think much will come of it. But I'm sure they are
| having a legit falling out.
| declan_roberts wrote:
| I bet half of the spikes to truth social were just people trying
| to verify whether the funny screenshots of Trump truth social
| posts on x were parody or not. Increasingly hard to tell with
| Trump!
|
| Example: https://x.com/JigokuCake/status/1930770025205395743
| greyface- wrote:
| Thanks, Cloudflare, for the demonstration of the granularity of
| data collected by 1.1.1.1; this is your periodic reminder to run
| your own local recursive DNS resolver.
| k310 wrote:
| The coming together of two very antithetical groups, maga and
| tech bro's held long enough to get Trump elected, and for crypto
| bro's to get their desired un-regulation.
|
| Trump got his election and an entree to the unregulated world of
| crypto, in the hopes of making billions. He needs them no more.
| Military parades, not trade shows.
|
| But the common thread of racism and hatred of other minority
| groups is stretched by tech "elitism" (see below) on one hand,
| and anti-science, anti-intellectual "religious" intolerance on
| the other. This fight really exposes the rift.
|
| References:
|
| 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
|
| https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...
|
| Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk 'Hijacking'
| Republicans to Control Entire US Government
|
| https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblo...
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