Judging by the top responses to the accessibility guy’s tweet, things look pretty grim right now. I never used Twitter so I don’t know if it’s always like that, but those people are really angry and negative. That is kinda depressing.
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#262It looks like the Mastodon instance host Simon is using, masto.host, closed for new sign-ups 8 hours ago. Is there another recommended alternative? I don't think I have the energy to maintain a self-hosted Mastodon instance. I sure haven't missed running a mail server...
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#263'Twitter’s priorities are no longer even remotely aligned with my own.' Since when were they? The mistake was perhaps to ever think that they were. It was twitters 'priority to sell themselves to Musk, hence why they took him to court to ensure he bought them. This is a somewhat crazy, knee-jerk reaction to some news headlines, the author has no idea of what is really happening, i'm not saying that i do, but for exam…
> basically we don't know Yes, it has been grossly mismanaged from a PR perspective. Expecting no fallout from that is naive.
Honestly there was no way to get good PR out of this. Musk is disliked by those who form "public opinion" and he's been threatening to make their home (twitter) no longer their home (by making it no longer reflect progressive values).
There is no universe where Musk takes over twitter and gets good PR.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter was also owned by average people. As are the vast majority of publicly traded companies.
This is false, unless you mean "pension funds". Most people do not own individual stocks. And in fact, most people do not own stocks at all. The set of stock-owning people is far from average.
Only one average person needs to own Twitter stock for my statement to be true. And the number was far higher than one.
And yes, of course pension funds count. Why wouldn't they?
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a brilliant example of a selective memory. What you have forgotten is that long before Jan6, Twitter blocked retweets of Trump's tweets, attached various warnings to his tweets, was selectively 'fact-checking' him, how that notebook story was banned on Twitter right before the elections. If that is not silencing, then what is? Can you name some other person on Twitter that had undergone a similar treatment?
The real question is, would they have done better by not acting on his antics? I think every moderation decision is a trade-off, and the final goal is always the health of the platform itself, not “society” or whatever. Yeah, some people will be hurt, but not acting would hurt too. So… I don’t know. It seems too “romantic” to me to believe that there is a handful of left-wing bigots in the company and all you need to…
> The real question is, would they have done better by not acting on his antics?
Yes, they would have done better. Their business should be providing the platform, not telling the users that is 'true' and what is not. That everyone should decide for themselves.
One thing is fighting spam, but what they were doing was Ministry of Truth stuff. And harm from that might be thousandfold greater than whatever Trump could ever do.
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Accessibility is supposed to change and improve. It's fair to expect that to halt when the entire staff has been fired.
isn't Accessibility one of those things that's "everyones job"? Why would you have a separate team working on it? Not kicking up shit, genuinely curious why you'd have a separate team work on that, seems like something every engineer needs to know (at least on the frontend) for an app like Twitter.
For the same reason companies have security teams. Or frontend and backend teams. Engineers can't be experts in everything. There is far too much to know.
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stated vs revealed preference. many people say they want chron, but actually end up using algo a lot more (figures)
When you say "figures", do you mean that's what the evidence shows? If so, presumably twitter's automatic switching from chrono to algo is a significant factor.
I think OP meant “it figures,” as in “that’s not surprising.” But regarding figures as in statistics and usage, I have only anecdata but it seems Twitter recently is respecting the user selection for a longer period.
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Moderation that is solely user-based doesn't work well at scale. It means you expect every user to block every asshole they come across, and each time they have to endure some asshole first before blocking them.
for me that would be completely reasonable, but it isn't necessary, you can have many decentralized filters like automatically block people that are blocked by a % of people I follow and many similar mechanisms
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It certainly is a knee-jerk- reaction. tl;dr: "I don't like Elon Musk either!" Nothing but virtue signalling.
Not liking Elon Musk and moving to a different platform is taking an action. Taking action is the opposite of virtue signaling.
> Taking action is the opposite of virtue signaling.
No, you signal your virtue with actions. That action can be lots of things, from buying some brand, to protesting some policy, or hating some person.