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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by swarnie »

afavour wrote: post #284
swarnie wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit really doesn't. I commented on a particular sub (in opposition to what i think the core hivemind is there) and was immediately banned from about 30 others. Reddit is the most insular, single minded set of communities I've seen on social media. I dont think you can claim diversity if the userbase all wall themselves off from each other with bots.

What, specifically, did you say that was “in opposition to the core hive mind” that led you to being blocked?

Sorry, maybe i wasn't clear.

I posted on the ReformUK subreddit in opposition to something that was being touted there. The context of the post doesn't matter, posting on that sub is enough to get you blanked banned from many other placed.

Getting banned from a default sub you've never posted in because you told a racist boomer somewhere else they might be falling for propaganda is bloody weird.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by joering2 »

throw310822 wrote: post #302
mrweasel wrote: post #130

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More and more I think Musk managed to his take over of Twitter pretty successfully. X still isn't as strong a brand as Twitter where, but it's doing okay. A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there. The only issue is that Musk vastly overpaid for Twitter, but if he plans to keep it and use it for his political ambitions, that might not matter. Also remember tha…

And btw, how many features have been brought live since Musk's takeover? If I'm not wrong, at least: long tweets, paid subscriptions, community notes, native video (?), grok... Anything else? Seems quite a lot after years of stagnation.

As a medicore programmer, other than AI I would imagine the rest of the list would take 2 weeks to program and implement.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by sergiotapia »

big_toast wrote: post #342
sergiotapia wrote: post #279

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X saved free speech online. Without Musk acquiring it, we would have continued to slip into this franken-Resetera level of discourse. Thank God! X is the platform where everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law. That's fantastic. If you don't like a particular subject, you can just move on. That's what the internet was in the 2000s!

Saved? Seems like it harmed the migration to more free protocol oriented services. One company controlling the algorithm and API to a global conversation. Verified badges getting ranked priority in replies and For You. A DM function that barely functions. Private chats as a promise instead of cryptographic guarantee?

>free protocol oriented services.

Love all of these on paper, I think any tech person would. But they are non-starters. Normies have zero chance of ever deciding to use these.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by ixtli »

pooty wrote: post #364

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deranged. "far left" is anything you don't agree with. also, almost none of the people from before musk are actually gone, the only difference is a dramatic increase in antisocial nazi bots and the groypers being more bold.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mvdtnz »

ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #355
mrweasel wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More and more I think Musk managed to his take over of Twitter pretty successfully. X still isn't as strong a brand as Twitter where, but it's doing okay. A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there. The only issue is that Musk vastly overpaid for Twitter, but if he plans to keep it and use it for his political ambitions, that might not matter. Also remember tha…

>A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there Twitter/X is the reason DJT became President. It happened accidentally (ie against the wishes of Twitter management) in 2016, they successfully suppressed him in 2020, and then Elon gave MAGA that platform in 2024, leading to DJT's successful election. As long as X is seen a kingmaker, someone will find it profitable…

If you think twitter made even 1% difference in 2016 I urge you to go and touch some grass. This stuff doesn't matter.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by anonymars »

sorcerer-mar wrote: post #234
anonymars wrote: post #151

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Right but the point was: > *I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her* but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept. What was there to thank her for?

Nothing! That's why I didn't comment on that. I commented on "remarkably inept."

Gotcha. I guess another episode of "both participants think the other is crazy"

My read wasn't that the "inept" was specifically her, but rather the leadership of the company at the time in general (for which, regardless, she is being thanked on Twitter). In other words, either

(1) she was a figurehead that didn't do anything and thanking her is stupid

(2) she wasn't a figurehead and actually was in charge, in which case thanking her is still stupid because such leadership was inept (suing their advertisers, etc.)

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mvdtnz »

mrweasel wrote: post #292
reverendsteveii wrote: post #213

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it's worth less than half of what he paid for it, lost 30 million users and went from being the default microblog to facing real competition in daily active users from ~~bluesky~~threads ( https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail... ). Building what X is today from nothing would be an incredible accomplishment but building what X is today out of what Twitter was in 2022 is still a pretty miserable…

> it's worth less than half of what he paid for it But it was always worth less that half of the purchase price. The Twitter board completely ripped of Musk. Remember that he tried to back out of the deal, arguing that he had been lied to in regards to the number of bots and actual users.

They ripped him off? He made an unsolicited offer, signed, sealed and delivered.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by cma »

In her farewell tweet:

> Groundbreaking innovations like community notes

This existed on Twitter before Musk bought Twitter, and was likely borrowed from community wiki section on Stack Overflow at a minimum, if not from earlier sites. Not an X innovation.

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