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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by LegitShady »

bikson wrote: post #601
LegitShady wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Long ago I made a reddit account with the first suggested name after the one I asked for was 'taken', disabled following all the subreddits, and then selectively added subreddits specific to my hobbies. I don't see anything that normally hits the front page, everything I do see is somewhat relevant to me, and it basically deletes all politics from what is presented. By far the best reddit experience possible, I think…

This is the way. But also creating information bubble.

I don't get any news from reddit - its purely an entertainment vehicle for me, so I don't worry about the bubble portion of it. If I'm in a synthesizer or fiction writing bubble, so be it.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by baby »

blocked_again wrote: post #705
adh636 wrote: post #689

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I don't know him personally so I could certainly be mistaken, but from listening to him speak/write and based on his charitable giving I don't get the impression at all that Jack is motivated by riches. I think he is genuinely interested in Bitcoin as a tool for advancing humanity. I also don't get the impression he is interested in 'crypto'. I guess it remains to be seen though.

Yeah. I think apart from that he knows how painful is to work with the current payment systems given the trouble they had to go through to get credit card companies work initially with Square to give their card readers for small businesses.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason why FB investigated cryptocurrencies as well, they had/have so much trouble getting payment features approved in different countries.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by baby »

revskill wrote: post #708

Still remember first time i used Twitter, seems so slow due to Rails and decided to go away. Then about 2 years later, the site became very fast which kept me stay. It seems Twitter team is one of the most responsive dev team that i've seen.

What's the stack now?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by riffic »

_hyn3 wrote: post #691
riffic wrote: post #612

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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?

you ever hear the theory about failing upwards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

edit: I think I got it wrong. maybe this is a closer fit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successfu...

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by castis »

xeromal wrote: post #277
mardifoufs wrote: post #212

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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.

> Banning Trump

After years of letting him say whatever he wanted, they waited until the opposing party was firmly seated and the threat of retaliation was lowest. Good move tactically I guess but it took no bravery.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by bombcar »

mike_d wrote: post #703
thaumasiotes wrote: post #690

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Uncharitable explanation: he's being forced out over his pro-free-speech views. He's been pretty vocal about disagreeing with Twitter's recent actions.

That makes no sense. He is the CEO and on the board, he _is_ the decision maker and could reverse any action he disagreed with. Any disagreement was purely theatre.

Perhaps he did reverse or prevent some actions the board in general felt he shouldn't, and this is the "please leave".

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by hitpointdrew »

snarkypixel wrote: post #659

There's zero explanation in the email for why he resigned. He's re-iterating the point that the company is fine moving forward with the rest of the board, the new CEO and the existing team, but no actual reason as to why he left.

Welcome to public relations.

This is par for the course, ask a politician a question get a non-answer, ask an NFL coach about the next game “They are a good team, we have to practice hard.” It’s all just talking without really saying anything.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by spion »

spion wrote: post #352

Twitter and other social media are probably the biggest problem of our time. By providing simple rules of information flow: small amount of content, retweet, followers) and rewards (likes), they've created the most efficient engines for finding and spreading novelty at the expense of everything else. There are no incentives to improve accuracy, increase thoughtfulness, paint nuance. Fact checking gets lost in the win…

For what its worth, its highly likely that this comment had artificial negative points added in the background for its sorting, after which it stopped its super quick gain in points (156 in 1-2 hours) and suddenly dropped to page two.

I wonder what the mods found objectionable. Its a general news event, so this kind of commentary seems relevant. Social media CEOs are facing this problem everywhere and they seem unable (or unwilling?) to fight it.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by whyrusleeping »

blocked_again wrote: post #682
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…

> FWIW, you've also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan Twitter don't even have an RSS feed let alone championing decentralisation.

I assume you havent seen https://twitter.com/bluesky ?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by riffic »

blocked_again wrote: post #682
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…

> FWIW, you've also championed transparency and decentralization for your platform more than any other SV social media titan Twitter don't even have an RSS feed let alone championing decentralisation.

http://cdevroe.com/2021/10/26/bluesky-status/

love this bit:

"The truth is that Twitter could become decentralized almost overnight by simply adding some JSON-LD serializers, an inbox endpoint and maybe tweaking their storage schema slightly to become part of the fediverse – anyone who wouldn’t want to use twitter.com could follow twitter.com users from their own server and so on. That does not require 2 years of making people who don’t work for you talk to each other."

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