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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mnky9800n »

zero_shift wrote: post #459
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…

I cannot see how it was a success. 1. He overpaid by tens of billions. That is a phenomenal amount of money to lose on an unforced error. 2. Enough users, who produce enough content, have left to make X increasingly a forum for porn bots, scam accounts and political activists. It's losing its appeal as the place "where the news happens" and is instead becoming more niche. 3. The firings did not go well. X has struggl…

X exists in other languages than english. it provides insight into non-english speaking places that other platforms owned by elon musk do not.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by Applejinx »

moomin wrote: post #194
rvz wrote: post #86

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..and 3 years later has a combined valuation with xAI of $113B. Those waiting for X to collapse are going to wait a lot longer than the original 6 months that it was predicted to collapse after the November 2022 takeover.

To misquote an adage: Elon Musk can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent.

Does it count as irrational if he can get a puppet President elected, have his child mock that person publically while he's present, and repeatedly urge the trusted AI authority he presents for people's use into opinionizing on Boers and Mecha-Hitler?

It sounds like he is getting exactly what he wants. That's the most rational thing about him in what's otherwise a storm of ketamine. I think all the other stuff he thinks is flat-out insane, but exploiting X and pushing it as hard as he can, that's about as rational and effective as Elon ever gets.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by invalidusernam3 »

gorwell wrote: post #256
baseballdork wrote: post #220

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Legitimately can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Saved free speech??

Yes, it did. Every large platform including Twitter was censoring its users due to state pressure. Even Facebook has since admitted that they were told to censor information that was true, and they knew to be true.

What are you basing this on? Because:

https://www.carolinapoliticalreview.org/editorial-content/20...

> the report shows X’s dedication to content moderation by suspending millions of accounts and removing harmful posts, which could potentially help rebuild trust among users concerned with safety and dangerous behavior. On the other hand, this increased moderation contradicts Musk’s earlier promise of promoting free speech, something he has been very vocal about, potentially alienating users who see X becoming more restrictive.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by varjag »

motorest wrote: post #678
bydlocoder wrote: post #673

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Twitter's back-end is written in Scala, but they used "better Java" style so an average developer should have no problems making changes Anyway, what kind of features Twitter (or any social network for that matter) needs after it existed for so many years? Hacker News haven't changed a bit a it does what it does perfectly well

> Twitter's back-end is written in Scala, but they used "better Java" style so an average developer should have no problems making changes You sound like someone completely oblivious to software development practices who somehow felt compelled to post opinions on software engineering. Your choice of language is irrelevant if your goal is to maintain software. What matters is systems architecture and institutional kno…

From what we gathered on the kitchen side he fired the most infrequent committers. Which statistically speaking would not affect the institutional knowledge much.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by n3storm »

randomtoast wrote: post #771

I think that no matter how bad the news about Elon and his companies might be, his net worth keeps skyrocketing and is currently around the $400B mark. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years Forbes reports that he's the first to reach one trillion.

I don't see human lifestream as a sphere rolling up or down but a morphing goo flow through an unstructured topology. So, extrapolating last 20 years of Elon decissions in the future is impossible because humans tend to fail with time, bodily, emotionally and cognitivelly.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by sflicht »

PicassoCTs wrote: post #671
Simon_O_Rourke wrote: post #669

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Crashing isn't the totality of unsupported code. I previously worked in a company where a goodly proportion of the back end product team was let go, and their system stayed running for two plus years without a single fix or update going in.

Proofing that it was a real good back end team..

Not good at engineering their own job security

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mihaic »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #765
mihaic wrote: post #690

Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God". Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.

It's interesting how things change. Internet used to be against copyright and for the right to choose how to call oneself. And now it's for copyright and against the self naming thing.

I'm actually for self-naming in general, it's just that there should be some common sense limits to self-naming. There's a reason why we differentiate between common and proper nouns.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mrcarrot »

varjag wrote: post #785
motorest wrote: post #678

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> Twitter's back-end is written in Scala, but they used "better Java" style so an average developer should have no problems making changes You sound like someone completely oblivious to software development practices who somehow felt compelled to post opinions on software engineering. Your choice of language is irrelevant if your goal is to maintain software. What matters is systems architecture and institutional kno…

From what we gathered on the kitchen side he fired the most infrequent committers. Which statistically speaking would not affect the institutional knowledge much.

Or alternatively (assuming that's true) he fired the people who thought about what they commit and kept those whose commit logs look like: "push feature WiP", "fix", "more fixes", "push", "maybe this works?"...
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