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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mapt »

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…

Unfortunately, Bluesky has not taken off. The network effects of Twitter are too great to lose its journalists & public figures.

What has happened instead is that we're back on Facebook. Errm... Threads by Instagram by Meta née Facebook. And it's reached a stage where public figure migration is actually becoming feasible.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail...

Network effected spaces front-loaded by the power of Mark Zuckerberg, third richest person in the world, stand a chance.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by jxjnskkzxxhx »

makeitdouble wrote: post #753
jxjnskkzxxhx wrote: post #676

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Were they? My recollection is that in the tech space a lot of people were saying "it's just an app, why do they need so many people"

The "why do they need so many people" were probably in favor of Musk ? On the other side people were already asking why Twitter didn't do more moderation and better filtering (= more people). And we expected that breaking rules would have serious repercussions, which was a foolish assumption as we've seen.

> The "why do they need so many people" were probably in favor of Musk ?

I can speak for myself. I think Enron Musk is a despicable person, and at the same time I don't understand why a shitty app needs so many people.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by motorest »

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.

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

This take is, quite bluntly, stupid and clueless. Do you think each commit reflects the volume of institutional knowledge of any individual? Unbelievable.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by sillyfluke »

SonOfLilit wrote: post #523
sillyfluke wrote: post #436

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To be fair, as I understand it they're saying the podcasters were most likely the ones that pushed him over the edge this time around. "Small part" meaning 10-15 percent is not too bad for twitter. And I do think rightwing podcasters and tiktok got the young male votes out more than twitter did this time around. I also doubt hispanics and other minorities voted for Trump because they were obsessively on twitter. Not…

Did any Trump voters think he will be harder on Israel than Biden or Kamala? In Israel the debate was "should we be rooting for Trump because of how much of a blank check he will give our government, or against him because of the damage he will do to the free world that we are part of and also the blank check that he will give our government?" Since this prediction turned out basically correct, I wonder if across the…

>Did any Trump voters think he will be harder on Israel than Biden or Kamala?

I don't think they would phrase it like that, but I think they thought he had a better chance of ending the war.

I listed the reasons in order of importance. People voted against the incumbent because they couldn't make ends meet first and foremost.

But as for Israel, one would be hard pressed to find any gaps between the blank check Biden gave and the blank check Trump is giving Israel now. After Biden left office, people close to or in his administration admitted there was zero pressure applied to Israel for a ceasefire, despite public statements by the admin in support of a ceasefire at the time. But there were Muslim mayors and politicians as well as regular citizens in Michigan, some with family in Palestine, who thought it would be madness to vote for more of the same, knowing full well that Trump might not be better. They ultimately thought betting on Trump's ego and meglomania and his desire for getting the Nobel peace prize had the potential to shake the things up and was the preferrable option out of the two terrible choices. Now I don't think that was the right calculation at the time, but I wouldn't fault anyone who didn't want to try the same thing and expect different results.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by phanimahesh »

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.

Senior ICs tend to commit relatively unfrequently compared to junior ICs who keep pumping tickets.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by CPLX »

mapt wrote: post #791
zero_shift wrote: post #459

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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…

Unfortunately, Bluesky has not taken off. The network effects of Twitter are too great to lose its journalists & public figures. What has happened instead is that we're back on Facebook. Errm... Threads by Instagram by Meta née Facebook. And it's reached a stage where public figure migration is actually becoming feasible. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail... Network effected spaces front-lo…

Bluesky seems to be doing reasonably well all things considered. It’s active and relevant. They also seem to have a pulse and ship new features.

Not saying it will emerge from being a niche thing and take over but it’s a pretty big niche. And Twitter is about half an inch from a platform ending meltdown at any time so it seems like the future isn’t yet set.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by amelius »

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.

Winner takes all.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by cindyllm »

CPLX wrote: post #796
mapt wrote: post #791

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Unfortunately, Bluesky has not taken off. The network effects of Twitter are too great to lose its journalists & public figures. What has happened instead is that we're back on Facebook. Errm... Threads by Instagram by Meta née Facebook. And it's reached a stage where public figure migration is actually becoming feasible. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail... Network effected spaces front-lo…

Bluesky seems to be doing reasonably well all things considered. It’s active and relevant. They also seem to have a pulse and ship new features. Not saying it will emerge from being a niche thing and take over but it’s a pretty big niche. And Twitter is about half an inch from a platform ending meltdown at any time so it seems like the future isn’t yet set.

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by nlitened »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #694
alpha_squared wrote: post #66

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Which really says a lot about how hard it is to leave platforms. The network effect is hard to overcome.

Which reinforces the concept of a digital fiefdom; the owners of said platforms have this immense power only because they were the first to implement their ideas during the internet boom. And now we're stuck with Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos. Out of all people, the last ones I would choose to have unelected power. Okay maybe the last one would be Joe Rogan.

Sir, I've seen whom you _elected_, let's be humble here about preferred choices

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by sunbum »

throwaway37153 wrote: post #697
UncleSlacky wrote: post #356

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> everyone can speak as long as it doesn't break the law I have one word for you: "cisgender". https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-cisgender-slur-cis-elon...

> “You may not directly attack other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease,” How does this make it different than other website's policies in terms of free speech?

Its pretty easy to find large profiles calling others the n word without any reprocussions. cisgender is the only one that gets automatically filtered no matter the context.
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