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Post by mschuster91 »

meshugga wrote: post #104

This is amazing. He basically said, he'd return if elon comes around, and wishes him the best. And just said "my mastodon is on my website". No violation of those new "TOS" of any kind. https://mas.to/@paulg seems to have been hugged to death already :)

I'm on the same instance and holy crap they've gone down with every single major e-long caused migration wave. Poor admin crews of all the instances - can't even enjoy a Sunday off because Musk decides to do something stupid yet again.

I had hoped to have gotten rid of that anxiety the day Trump left office, and now it's back with a vengeance.

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Post by fhd2 »

jeffbee wrote: post #311
rsanheim wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't baffling at all. It was entirely predictable by looking at his past behavior. The thai cave diver incident and Elon's slander. The hyperloop failure. The continual empty promises of FSD for tesla. His attempts to manipulate the market thru his posts, which the SEC slapped his write for. Why would Elon take a first-principles approach, instead of the selfish, short-sighted approach of an insecure, lonely, ove…

Unfortunately there's not some kind of reward for spotting Musk for the person he really is at first glance.

There is; grim satisfaction. I'm enjoying it quite a bit over the last couple of weeks.

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Post by tick_tock_tick »

the_duke wrote: post #367

No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here: Twitter must be bleeding DAUs. There are other indicators too. After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can't even scroll down to see more tweets now, or view replies. The ads are also really weird and odd. Either their ad targeting system is broken, or they just lost so many advertisers…

> Twitter must be bleeding DAUs

Secondary indicators seems to indicate DAU is surging. I don't know why you'd think it would drop from controversy this kind of shit is what people live on twitter for. Real question is is it sustainable and can they actually monetize it.

> The ads are also really weird and odd.

Twitter has always been an embarrassment in terms of targeted ads.

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Post by jeffbee »

wilg wrote: post #406
TOMDM wrote: post #300

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Hyperloop wasn't a failure at all, it did exactly what it was meant to; kill off attempts to get more railway projects started in California.

This take on the Hyperloop thing is totally trumped-up. There is no evidence it was meant to kill off new railway projects, nor any evidence that it did. Elon was just paraphrased in a book about how he thought the particular California HSR project was a boondoggle (a view shared by many) and he published an idea for how to do it better.

Hyperloop wasn't an idea for "how to do it better" because Hyperloop cannot do "it" at all. The nameplate capacity of Hyperloop, granting all of Musk's fantasy parameters, is in the low thousands of passengers per day. High speed rail can land a thousand people every minute.

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Post by hocuspocus »

lvl102 wrote: post #215
dbish wrote: post #113

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Mastadon UX is really frustrating. Hoping there's a better option for following him in the near future

I agree. Mastadon in concept is OK but execution is quite poor.

> Mastadon

> Mastadon

Is this word especially hard to write properly somehow? At least, please let your spell-checker do its job.

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Post by seba_dos1 »

sytelus wrote: post #282
AJ007 wrote: post #183

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Finally signed up, seems fine. I think the big problem is if the servers will be able to handle the volume.

The whole server concept is a disaster, IMO. There is no search box for server. There is no information on how to create a server (at least on landing page). A lot of servers require "manual review". Many are "full". I don't know which one of these servers will even survive over time. I use Twitter as my "log" of interesting content and ideas. I rather not put content on server managed by a dude who can be run over b…

This whole server concept is what makes it viable as a network and what will make it outlive other popular services like Twitter.

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Post by s5300 »

computerex wrote: post #226
echelon wrote: post #93

I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement. He's gone insane. Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense... I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.

Meanwhile others have been warning about his lunacy for years and up till recently have faced nothing but backlash from his internet armies. It just feels so good to see comments like yours. It's out in the open now, everyone now knows he is a greedy charlatan.

I believe I’ve also written (typed) & stated on HN that Paul Graham is a ghoulish charlatan (exact words).

Funnily enough, my account has yet to be fully banned on here (I think there was a point in which Dang gave me a last warning)

Yet Paul has now been knocked by… somebody at least wealthier than him, least I say more ghoulish…

It’s been an interesting month on the internet to say the least

Edit 3:35 pm best coast time

I have misled you my friends. I actually called Garry Tan a “ghoul and a charlatan” as he came back to YC as an advisor or something. I have felt the same about PG for a while though :D

Paul, you can always change for the better.

How you’re currently looking at Elon is how some portion of those, whom once-upon-a-time looked up to you, have viewed you for some time.

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Post by 1270018080 »

dragontamer wrote: post #373
1270018080 wrote: post #263

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It's so painful to use. It's such a waste they're winning the network effect battle off of Twitter's collapse. Not that I have a better alternative (open to suggestions).

Mastodon is the protocol. You can't really quit "Twitter" by joining "email", for example. It doesn't make sense. Now maybe you can "quit Twitter" to join "Gmail", which is an email service. Similarly, people are going to have to pick Mastodon servers that work with them the best. Tumblr seems to be the weird one (promising ActivityPub, aka Mastodon, support soon). Tumblr seems to be my personal best bet, but I'm als…

Yes, the protocol is terrible, which plays a major role in the UX. And yes, the semantics game is very fun to play with Mastodon, but people say they're quitting Twitter for Mastodon all the time and we all know what it means.
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