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Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.
Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.
1) People who look at the future with wide eyes and and a huge amount of optimism would gladly put their lives, finances and generally the whole society in the hands of this man.
2) People (including myself) who look at the future as a concept that scammers and snake oil salesmen often use to convince people to give them money...well they think this guy is nothing but a scammer and a snakeoil salesman convinving people to give him money right now for stuff that he'll never deliver.
I sometimes envy the first category and would like to make a leap on the other side...just to see what it's like...but man are the awakenings rough. When they happen the former optimists reach level of cynism that are sky high even for those of us who are regularly cynic.
This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. One that is being discussed here in other threads is basically, "What does Musk think he can do that others before him haven't been able to?" Are we going to see a stroke of real genius here? The second point is also interesting, but isn't being discussed: Twitter enacted a poison pill on 15 April which could allow Musk to pay a ton but not get board control. I'm not…
Elon is a smart guy but the real impact of this takeover will come from his ability to act unilaterally. Jack Dorsey hasn't owned a significant amount of Twitter for a decade and likewise hasn't had much ability to take bold decisions for at least as long. Elon will come in with the willingness and ability to take tough decisions, such as sacrificing engagement numbers for the sake of kicking out bots.
Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.
IMO, as long as you stay away from politics, Twitter is great; you can probably say the same for Reddit and other socials too.
One thing that I do hate though, is the bizarre message threading model - it's just so confusing! All I want is messages in chronological order!
People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…
Although it makes for a funny thought, you don't become the richest person on earth by throwing your money around at memes or for some sort of "revenge".
Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.
frankly I'm jelous and wish I could do that.
“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet. Anyone who has ever worked in content moderation / trust & safety knows what kind of unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site. It seems so easy from a d…
The user should be the one who is given the tools of censorship.
What's wrong with this idea?
Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.