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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by wutbrodo »

duxup wrote: post #247
renewiltord wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter is only like that if one consumes that content. Like, if one only ever follows John Carmack and Gwern, that won't be the experience. Saying Twitter is mean-spirited is essentially the same as saying that no matter where one goes one smells shit. Everyone who feels that way should check the bottom of their shoe. I suggest Matthew 7:5 for them.

It's just too much work pruning / hoping you find folks who are sort a single topic accounts for me. Often they fall off the wagon and get into spats and so on. Too much hassle to constantly add / remove folks to keep a feed that isn't "typical social media feed BS".

Fwiw, this isn't my experience. My following list is remarkably stable, and I've only had to prune people "falling of the wagon" once or twice. It's also not much work: you see their tweet, remember that they've done thus more than once recently, and click unfollow.

The main cost is that this isn't conducive to a very large following list, but perhaps that's a good thing.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by politician »

fennecfoxen wrote: post #224
phreack wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a lifesaver in countries with rampant inflation where they forbid you to buy currencies from other countries. Literally in some cases.

Which countries are those? China, where it's been outlawed? Is the value mostly in the laws being easier to circumvent?

Are you implying that there is some Moral Good in compliance with laws that prevent you from escaping an inflationary environment damning you and your loved ones to starvation?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by acdha »

krolden wrote: post #229
riffic wrote: post #151

Looks like activist investors are getting their Christmas wish this year. Twitter's not immune from ending up on this list (on a long enough timeline): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...

Are people really using the term 'activist investors' unironically?

Yes — it's been in use for years, with some examples here:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/activist-investor.asp

It's important to remember that in common usage “activist” doesn't mean anything other than trying to change how a company is run — there isn't the connotation of social values or similar which the term has in common usage.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by handrous »

a4isms wrote: post #248
handrous wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've noticed that lots of C-suite and owner/CEO startup people have like three to five active business roles on their Linkedins. A fun case of "rules for thee, but not for me" when it comes to anti-moonlighting clauses and such. I can't "give it my all" if I take some weekend gigs, but you can hold two C-suite positions, be on two boards, plus have an "advisory" role with some startup? It's a lot like drug testing fo…

“Rules for thee but not for me” is interesting when placed in juxtaposition with a famous quote from the software architect and composer Frank Wilhoit: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. That applies to no-moonlighting clauses, but also to no sexual harassment clauses,…

To be fair, it's not like we hide who the system's set up to serve. It's right there in the name. Capital - ism.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by 535188B17C93743 »

juancampa wrote: post #236
danschumann wrote: post #219

Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.

Here's a tip on how to make the best out of Twitter: unfollow anyone that makes you feel that way. Think about it, it's not Twitter per se, it's the people you follow, and that's under your control.

Until they start suggesting friends of friend's tweets. Or random trending/suggested tweets. Or you might like your friend's tweets but get fed with all of their garbage "liked" content and can't filter that out.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by jcadam »

koheripbal wrote: post #234
riffic wrote: post #151

Looks like activist investors are getting their Christmas wish this year. Twitter's not immune from ending up on this list (on a long enough timeline): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...

The issue with Dorsey is that he acknowledges how toxic Twitter is, but has no idea how to fix it nor did he seem ready to do so, and this made investors very nervous. See his recent interview on CNN : https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/2100868666791589/

I don't think it can be fixed. Social media in general is a cancer.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by xeromal »

mardifoufs wrote: post #212
nafizh wrote: post #97

People love to bash Dorsey but he had more of a backbone than Zuckerberg in every possible way. And while the game is always about money, Dorsey did try to improve the eco-system in a principled way even if arguably he failed in many ways - this courage was probably there because he was a founder of the company. The new CEO will be more like Pichai at Google or Cook at Apple - only there to make money.

How did dorsey stand up to anything? They are trying to monetize twitter just as much, with extremely annoying dark patterns to boot. They just don't seem to succeed as well. The way they redesigned feeds, made linking to tweets a coin toss because of how often they just show "oops something went wrong" if you aren't logged in, or if you are lucky made it so Twitter threads just don't show anything but the single lin…

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690?lang=en

Here's an example off the top of my head. Banning Trump I felt was pretty courageous.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by cblconfederate »

danschumann wrote: post #219

Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.

Made you, you mean like, forced you? In any case you can't voluntarily join an emotional rollecoaster and then complain that it's moving too fast

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by purple_ferret »

dcchambers wrote: post #180

Happy to see a CTO promoted to CEO, hopefully a signal that Twitter is still committed to growing/incubating the engineering side of the business.

His wife is a GP at a16z[0]. I'm sure he's not unfamiliar with the world of Silicon Valley hyper-growth.

[0]https://a16z.com/author/vineeta-agarwala/

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by renewiltord »

duxup wrote: post #247
renewiltord wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter is only like that if one consumes that content. Like, if one only ever follows John Carmack and Gwern, that won't be the experience. Saying Twitter is mean-spirited is essentially the same as saying that no matter where one goes one smells shit. Everyone who feels that way should check the bottom of their shoe. I suggest Matthew 7:5 for them.

It's just too much work pruning / hoping you find folks who are sort a single topic accounts for me. Often they fall off the wagon and get into spats and so on. Too much hassle to constantly add / remove folks to keep a feed that isn't "typical social media feed BS".

I have been append-only to my list and it's been great. Only ever had to take Matt Yglesias off my list and that's because he tweets all the time.

The downside (maybe upside) is that I run out of Twitter content pretty fast.

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