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Post by tyre »

jfaat wrote: post #148
tyre wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nikita was always a bad hire. If you look at his history, he’s really good at growth hacking apps to pump-and-dump into acquisitions. He hasn’t proven himself in building lasting products. His last app, Gas, saw meteoric growth from some truly impressive growth hacking on children, but then got acquired by Discord and very soon after tanked. Same with whatever he’d sold to Facebook. His (and others’ defense) to criti…

> truly impressive growth hacking on children I haven't been more viscerally disgusted by a phrase I've read about tech in a while. Astonishing word choice.

Truly some incredible stuff getting cooked up in the Silicon Valley

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bikezen wrote: post #137

The people who say censorship has ended under musk need to really check reality. Almost immediately after musk took over he suspended anyone remotely investigating or reporting on any company he was associated with. This has continued to this day except now anyone reporting on folks like catturd also get protected by musk et all. Would also like to know what actual censorship folks complain about in the beforetimes,…

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Post by masklinn »

VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #122
mmonaghan wrote: post #57

People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. He's done a great job in a year and there seems to be even more internal stuff he's improved that we haven't seen.

I don't know how you wrote that with a straight face. The site is really bad now. Every time I log in I get a full screen upsell ad, most of the features don't work, people get banned at random (big scary "permanent ban, no recovery" then a silent restoration afterwards), there's CSAM all over the platform, and moderation of legitimate bad posts goes ignored. Remind me again how anyone over there is doing a great job…

The upsell ads progressively getting more massive and desperate is pretty funny tho.

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Post by locknitpicker »

mmonaghan wrote: post #57

People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+. He's done a great job in a year and there seems to be even more internal stuff he's improved that we haven't seen.

> People love hating on x and nikita but both the app & web experience have improved dramatically over the last year+.

This feels like a blatantly unrealistic opinion to have, which goes completely against any observable evidence.

Without a login, you can barely click on any link without being spammed by login prompts. If you visit anyone's posts tab you are greeted with a comically bad collection of posts that only show stale years old tweets that follow no discernible pattern or logic. And you cannot sort by timestamp.

This is comically bad given Twitter's sales pitch of being a microblogging site that lives in the now.

The truth of the matter is that today's Twitter is a sad clone of the glory days Twitter. Lauding these developments as something praise worthy is perplexing.

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Post by somenameforme »

dmix wrote: post #105
solid_fuel wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The web experience has improved? You can’t even view a thread any more without being logged in or using a 3rd party site. They’ve actively made the web experience unusable for most people. But considering they’ve also drastically reduced the quality of content on the platform, one could say they’ve done casual users a favor.

Funny enough, one of the first thing Elon's team did after buying Twitter was remove login gating. There was a big bottom signup CTA on the old Twitter. Then at some point I guess they realized why the old Twitter team did that in the first place (financial pressure for targeted ads) and went harder in that direction to also push for subscriptions. I still disagree with it, since it's a poor first experience. Replyin…

They started requiring log-ins when industrial level scraping for LLM data became a thing.

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Post by archagon »

Here's some fun stuff that this guy's boss has been posting recently:

* "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor"

* "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in reference to his recent interviewer)

* "Deal with traitors before invaders. They are committing high treason."

* "First the traitors, then the invaders" (screenshot from Citizen Vigilante pointing gun at camera)

The fine folks working in the upper echelons of Twitter have been perfectly happy with their site turning into something indistinguishable from Stormfront over the last few years. May the taint from this repulsive project follow them around for the rest of their careers.

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Post by archagon »

rvz wrote: post #29

In 2022, Twitter / X was supposed to have completely shut down according to many doomsters at the time. It is clear that many in [0], [1] and [2] also would like to ask the same question why Twitter / X still hasn't shut down. Turns out almost 4 years later, we are going to waiting even longer for the collapse. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33984823 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34214903 [2] htt…

The site has become a right-wing echo chamber and Musk's personal soapbox: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak...

About 90% of the interesting people I ever followed on Twitter are now on Bluesky or Mastodon. They're never coming back.

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