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Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by dmix »

aliqot wrote: post #26

Elon owning Twitter is the most public accountability Twitter has ever had. Him owning Twitter, the way he's currently operating, will force a critical eye toward a lot of bad behaviors that we all experience but nobody really talks about on every network. I say bravo. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter.

As someone who already despised Twitter there is only good outcomes for me if it either declines into oblivion or they somehow rescue it from this pit into something more like ~2010-2012 Twitter moderation wise.

Best case we get a more decentralized option or a centralized option that isn’t so politicized by the owners… or at least an owner who isn’t a contentious celebrity that is a black/white villain/hero to a big portion of the population.

Unfortunately all of my experiences with Mastadon have been negative (particularly the UI and how it encourages bubbles harder than Reddit hypermodding), but Mastadon seems to be all people talk about.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by rsynnott »

samwillis wrote: post #5

This has had over 250k votes in the first three minutes. Thats insane! I can only imagine the infrastructure for this...

In the scheme of things that Twitter does, these polls aren't really too bad. As someone mentions, it's in the thousands per second, and I don't _think_ they show activity in real-time to anyone looking at them.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by boppo1 »

rsynnott wrote: post #60
wokwokwok wrote: post #27

Am I cynical in thinking that if you vote yes, it’s a permanent record on your Twitter account, which he can then use later to mete out anti-musk retaliation punishments? I mean, it’s not like he’s used the platform to do punish anyone who opposes him or his views before. Maybe I’m reading by too much into it.

I mean, what's he going to do, set Roko's Basilisk on you?

No, you just did that to him.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by weinzierl »

calcifer wrote: post #48
weinzierl wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and apparently I was the first person who voted. https://mastodon.weinzierlweb.com/@ludwig/109537268355917100

I saw the same thing when I voted when the post was 14 seconds old. I think it's just a cache thing and a great many people saw they were "first".

Good to know, I haven't thought of that.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

Yes. Please. Build starships. Build Teslas.

We just had a quarter of a trillion dollars of federal spending earmarked for the EV supply chain; why are you calling retiring politicians’ spouses pedos and giving Kanye West life advice when you could be corralling all of that.

Elon, please come home.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by memish »

aliqot wrote: post #26

Elon owning Twitter is the most public accountability Twitter has ever had. Him owning Twitter, the way he's currently operating, will force a critical eye toward a lot of bad behaviors that we all experience but nobody really talks about on every network. I say bravo. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter.

That's a salient point. Biased, uneven, nontransparent moderation was always happening with weak justification, it was just done by unaccountable people and propagandized as righteous.

Remember people getting banned for saying "learn to code", disallowing certain news links even in DMs, shadowbanning undesirables with no transparency.

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Post by rvz »

323 wrote: post #58

Elon Musk posted "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" on 19 Oct and 19 Nov. Today is 19 Dec, and in 12 hours he'll post again that the people have spoken. He's playing some sort of game. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1582778449583693836 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593769469741932544

Now you're paying attention.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by newZWhoDis »

wmf wrote: post #28
pseudo0 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like it would be the smart move to hire someone with expertise in social media, give them his high-level vision, and let them implement the details. The last few weeks of Elon's micromanagement have been a complete shitshow.

Everyone with expertise in social media hates Elon's high-level vision.

And I hate just about anyone you probably consider an experts “vision” on social media, especially since what it ended up becoming was a “”private”” end run around the 1st and 4th amendments.

It really is perfect, a not-government entity making wink-wink decisions at the behest of unelected executive branch employees.

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by fells »

logicallee wrote: post #45
donsupreme wrote: post #3

Everyone is voting "no" just to keep watching the trainwreck

There's no option "No you don't need to step down, just start running it well please, letting people say whatever they want".

There's no evidence "just start running it well please" is possible.
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