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Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

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Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

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For someone invested in decentralized protocols, it just sounds like people trying to reinvent the wheel. "let’s make it decentralized" "wow, very cool idea". Those guys are business guys but they have no idea what they are talking about. They don’t know the first bit about technical decentralization, about prior art, about the politics involved. They are so close of realizing that their companies are Frankenstein mo…

Dorsey is an engineer

Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

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post #2

For someone invested in decentralized protocols, it just sounds like people trying to reinvent the wheel. "let’s make it decentralized" "wow, very cool idea". Those guys are business guys but they have no idea what they are talking about. They don’t know the first bit about technical decentralization, about prior art, about the politics involved. They are so close of realizing that their companies are Frankenstein mo…

When you hear Musk being interviewed you'd certainly have to believe otherwise, he definitely claims he is the brains behind a lot of innovation.

That's hilarious, because for someone with a literal degree in physics he doesn't seem to understand the physics at all

Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

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Shame he couldn't do anything about that when he was either CEO, chairman or on the board of Twitter (for most of its existence).

As Bloomberg said yesterday: "Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/twitter-t...

https://archive.ph/7ugqn

Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

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-- Screenshot 1: [Jack Dorsey] "Yes, a new platform is needed. It can't be a company. This is why I left." [Jack Dorsey] " https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267?s=20... " [Elon Musk] "Ok" [Elon Musk] "What should it look like?" [Jack Dorsey] "I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn't own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done.…

So, they want to create Mastodon?

Mastodon is worse than twitter. You need to either maintain or join a server that is often managed by tyrannical admins that are even more trigger happy on silencing individuals and even other servers. You, your post history and account identity are at the mercy of those server administrators who can basically lock you out.

IMO credentials and identity management must be self hosted mobile and preferably not dependent on server hubs.

Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

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-- Screenshot 1: [Jack Dorsey] "Yes, a new platform is needed. It can't be a company. This is why I left." [Jack Dorsey] " https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267?s=20... " [Elon Musk] "Ok" [Elon Musk] "What should it look like?" [Jack Dorsey] "I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn't own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done.…

So, they want to create Mastodon?

what a horrible name

Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

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Unlike everyone else here apparently, I find his attitude pretty positive. You all act as if you would have know what twitter would become from the beginning and you would have done better, I've been in infinitesimally smaller projects with pressures that have nothing to do with building Twitter and still I thought like I was losing control of the direction the product was going.
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