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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by _hyn3 »

riffic wrote: post #612
MisterPea wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, but is Twitter really suffering with any engineering problems? I generally would like to see a CTO come in charge but here's a unique case where someone from product might be more suitable.

yes, Twitter is crawling with bugs and problems of scale (with an obvious lack of user support). see /r/twitter for a summary of issues people see on a day to day basis.

In that case, why would it make any sense to promote the person who was ostensibly most responsible for curing those ills?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by gonational »

Censoring speech is completely counter to everything this country was built on. Every corporation doing this, YC included, is plainly undermining our freedom of speech. Using the public square exception, while also censoring and editorializing, creates a moral hazard, wherein the offending corporations are are actually publishers that ate not responsible for the content they publish, yet they are benefitting from it.

There are no "community standards". There are corporate rules and censorship. We are not a community if we can't have free speech. We are subject to a corporation that is publishing and benefitting our content, subject to their terms and political beliefs.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by scrubs »

From the first comment in Twitter feed re: abandoning twitter for Pinterest, we got to start a new meme:

   Humor HN: I knew  when it used to rock-n-roll.
             I knew  when it used to to the pony.
to tally software that started great but alas died on the vine.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by sneak »

smt88 wrote: post #215
sneak wrote: post #203

So did I, after a dozen years on the platform. I won't donate content or attention to a site that decides what I am allowed to read (they censor their search!).

Every website you've ever used decides what you're allowed to read on their site.

My web host is a service. Twitter is a service.

I was hosting my own content on Twitter's service, same as I do on my web host.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by colechristensen »

peoplefromibiza wrote: post #652
colechristensen wrote: post #284

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I don't think this is ... necessarily the wrong thing. Acknowledging that it is a difficult problem and you don't know how to solve it might be better than thinking you know how to solve it and doing something worse. People are also quick to blame platforms without acknowledging that a lot of people are awful, the venue in which they practice their awfulness isn't necessarily at fault but it's easier to blame a thing…

all of this is true. but those people had no such platform before, maybe not thinking about the consequences because "growth" wasn't a great idea after all.

>but those people had no such platform before

They absolutely did. Twitter et al. just change the shape of who you socialize with, humans weren't in solitary confinement before the Internet. The platform was more local more community based for example there were often awful people at church.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by scrubs »

mjamil wrote: post #608

I'm in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn't been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since c…

From the first comment in Twitter feed re: abandoning twitter for Pinterest, we got to start a new meme:

I knew when it used to rock-n-roll. I knew when it used to do the pony.

to tally software that started great but alas died on the vine.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by agumonkey »

trevyn wrote: post #676
agumonkey wrote: post #668

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a few videos of him chatting with "investors" are on youtube et al he seems also a bit into the transhumanist narrative

Can you share a couple of the better links?

I forgot which one I saw but it's in there https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jack+dorsey+elo... somewhere

it's interesting to hear them chat but don't expect deep stuff, it's rich people having fun about markets and futures

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by burkaman »

nostrademons wrote: post #664
maxsilver wrote: post #540

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> The average person doesn't like to inhabit the Hobbesian reality that CEOs do, where they're accountable for results and any bad things happening are automatically their fault Does this actually happen though? I'm not sure I've ever seen a President or CEO of a company be held accountable for bad behavior or bad decisions in any meaningful way. Best case scenario, you mess up and get "fired" (with a million-dollar-…

Those are the consequences for line-level workers caught doing something bad, too. The company fires you and refuses to give you a good recommendation. Worst case, you might get hauled in front of court to answer questions. The difference is entirely in how people view those consequences. For most line-level workers, getting fired or laid off is a source of intense shame, as well as a big logistical inconvenience. As…

I'm sorry, are you serious? You think most workers don't want to get fired because of the shame and inconvenience? You can't think of any more significant motivators?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by polote »

mathattack wrote: post #11

The stock popped 10%. Is this a vote of confidence against him or for whoever has been waiting in the wings? There has been enough agitation against him by the activists that this can’t be a surprise.

There is an history of tech Startups doing very well financially when their founders leave. See Google, Microsoft, Apple
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