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Post by ramraj07 »

smrtinsert wrote: post #669
asim wrote: post #634

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Unfortunately for those who idolised Elon, their world view is beginning to crumble. His actions are not justifiable. The way he treats people, the way he rules his companies, the way he governs his new "free speech" platform. The man is a tyrant. He's idolised for the things he's achieved but if he had not achieved them would he be given the same benefit of the doubt? Hypocrisy. The way people treat this man versus…

Techies are very susceptible to the cult of personality. How many times do we have to watch that play out?

As opposed to which group of people who are more immune to it?

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by MisterMower »

space_fountain wrote: post #555
pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

I think villains don't exist in the real world. There are no Voldemort with no discernible reason for doing bad things, but Elon has been doing a lot of bad things lately and is inching into the realm that seems worth calling a villain to me

How can Elon be a villain if you don’t think villains exist in the real world? Your comment doesn’t make sense.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by mcv »

stefan_ wrote: post #654
r_hoods_ghost wrote: post #491

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Not a villain? Well he's utterly screwed his employees and broken employment law in multiple countries by not giving proper notice or consulting on redundancies, but hey who gives a shit about workers rights? Not you obviously.

No he's rich, so he is just "eccentric". What a sellout.

That's one of the rules I learned long ago. When you're rich enough, you're not crazy, you're "eccentric".

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Post by mmmmpancakes »

pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

> I still think Elon is a smart guy.

> I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media.

Hmmm...

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Post by eterevsky »

bombolo wrote: post #467
pg wrote: post #350

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…

> His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. You mean hiring engineers to work on cars and rockets?

Jeff Bezos is hiring engineers to work on rockets. Blue Origin is older than SpaceX and still hasn't reached orbit. So, I don't think it's that simple.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by ryukafalz »

tekla wrote: post #235
ryukafalz wrote: post #164

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There's a few browser extensions that help with that. I just started using this one, it's pretty slick: https://github.com/Lartsch/FediAct The underlying problem is that browsers are not designed with this sort of federated application use case in mind, so Mastodon and friends have to do some awkward tricks to get it to work at all.

Wow, why the hell would any normie use this?

To make the user experience more like what they're used to from Twitter.

It's frustrating that the web platform doesn't accommodate federated services like Mastodon that span multiple servers very well, but those are the cards we're dealt. It does work, it's just not ideal.

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Post by PartiallyTyped »

Eji1700 wrote: post #622
r_hoods_ghost wrote: post #491

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Not a villain? Well he's utterly screwed his employees and broken employment law in multiple countries by not giving proper notice or consulting on redundancies, but hey who gives a shit about workers rights? Not you obviously.

Let’s not forget calling a man a pedo in a public tantrum AB and advocating for prosecuting Fauci among a litany of terrible anti worker positions. Assholes can do good things. I just don’t get why we can’t call them assholes

FWIW, he has called two people paedophiles, an ex twitter employ, and a diver. The ex employee left his home as he received death threats.

By all means, I am holding Elon responsible for this. Here is the reasoning:

1. Either he is too stupid to understand the power he yields, and therefore should not yield it, or

2. He knows and does not care about anyone other than Elon, or

3. He knows and did it on purpose.

Hanlon's razor says 1, Occam's razor says 2. My priors say 1 is not possible, he can't be that stupid. I hope that he is not that vindictive for 3 to be true.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by [deleted] »

smrtinsert wrote: post #669
asim wrote: post #634

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately for those who idolised Elon, their world view is beginning to crumble. His actions are not justifiable. The way he treats people, the way he rules his companies, the way he governs his new "free speech" platform. The man is a tyrant. He's idolised for the things he's achieved but if he had not achieved them would he be given the same benefit of the doubt? Hypocrisy. The way people treat this man versus…

Techies are very susceptible to the cult of personality. How many times do we have to watch that play out?

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