I follow only musk and casey muratori. good mix of unhinged.
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
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#572Am 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.
It's not that simple with the new algorithms.
e.g. I just saw a tweet from someone I don't follow in my feed -- let's say, Lisa. Above it, it said "You are seeing this because Bob liked it". But I don't follow Lisa, nor Bob! Why am I seeing this??? I swear this has just happened, and it happens all the time.
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#574Musk has seen production hell. This is a different kind. Good luck Elon. Make good on your promises. EDIT: What I will be watching for is what Elon will do when freedom of speech is at odds with a big chunk of revenue. He is investing a boatload of money and at his philanthropic worst, he would like to break even in a few years.
I was thinking the same thing. Musk has done very well on hard engineering problems - now he is entering a special kind of hell running a social media company.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#575I wish him and the team the very best. Social media is an incredibly hard problem that by no means has been solved. I raise a glass to a man who has successfully tackled hard problems and seeks to make the future better.
> I raise a glass to a man who has successfully tackled hard problems and seeks to make the future better.
But what is your comment on billionaire Elon Musk buying Twitter.com?
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#576I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Twitter is probably the best social media platform for interplanetary communication, where low bandwidth and delayed transmission are fundamental bottlenecks, and both limitations are considered part of the appeal (character limitations and a format where you simply disperse messages and have no real notion of when they'll be received). In that case, I wonder if the monetizatio…
I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of KBs of metadata with each tweet. For comparison, each page on Subreply takes 5 KB of data transfer and server response is around 100ms.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#577Musk has seen production hell. This is a different kind. Good luck Elon. Make good on your promises. EDIT: What I will be watching for is what Elon will do when freedom of speech is at odds with a big chunk of revenue. He is investing a boatload of money and at his philanthropic worst, he would like to break even in a few years.
Serious question: how many Twitter employees (engineers + managers + directors + whateveer other levels) will quit/protest/strike if Elon un-suspends Trump's account, and what are the chances Elon suspends Trump's account?
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#578He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…
I think he already explained the mindset here by differentiating between moderating speech, and moderating behavior. So people who say certain things might still be banned or violate guidelines because of how they say it, but the event would probably be misrepresented as infringing on the right to free speech.
Tone policing good. I unironically believe this, especially if tone policing allows actual discussion, rather than shouting matches.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#579Am 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.
I think 99.99% of the issue with Twitter is how it seems to be the single place that news media, blogs and numerous other platforms use to cite and spread inflammatory content.
Nobody I follow ever bothers me and I certainly don't post much, but it's the internet flame factory in terms of how much other nonsense gets posted because the content is public by default. That's almost the point.
News stories like, "One user on Twitter thinks..." that shows a tweet showing the inflammatory thing they want to pretend is a trend, even though the tweet itself has virtually no likes were the beginning of a trend that got us to the news cycle we are today.
IMO it's the root cause of the "everybody is terrible" news cycle that people have been trying to live in for the past 10 years. IMO it's all been a media driven attempt to polarize people and it's self reinforcing because Twitter becomes the reference point to determine if people are polarized.
Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
#580I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Twitter is probably the best social media platform for interplanetary communication, where low bandwidth and delayed transmission are fundamental bottlenecks, and both limitations are considered part of the appeal (character limitations and a format where you simply disperse messages and have no real notion of when they'll be received). In that case, I wonder if the monetizatio…
> I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Twitter is probably the best social media platform for interplanetary communication, where low bandwidth and delayed transmission are fundamental bottlenecks
In a Vernon Vinge's novel, they used a kind of galaxy-wide Usenet.