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I give it 10 minutes after the feature is turned off and Musk is flooded with tweets that trigger him before he reinstates his personal ability to block people he doesn’t like.
To what extent is he eroding the trust in his other projects with everything he's done at Twitter so far? If this is how he runs things, I really don't want to be in/near a car built by a company run by Elon.
He should talk big and wave his hands, and then have an employee pull him away before he says too much, and before technical decisions can be made.
Maybe he's a laughing stock on HN, but I think he still has good name recognition outside of very technical circles or really partisan bubbles.
Was Musk always this mercurial or was he more competent at his previous companies? I still have trouble understanding how this man created something as good as SpaceX despite displaying no obvious indications of genius, and every sign of mediocrity, in his current state.
To what extent is he eroding the trust in his other projects with everything he's done at Twitter so far? If this is how he runs things, I really don't want to be in/near a car built by a company run by Elon.
I never wanted a car that was grown in the ethos of commercial computers and software in the first place.
So many times I heard “but you can just block them” as a defence for allowing any speech on Twitter. How’s that plan working out? I give it 10 minutes after the feature is turned off and Musk is flooded with tweets that trigger him before he reinstates his personal ability to block people he doesn’t like.
Pretty great, actually. I'm a staunch believer in that strategy, although I'm on Mastodon and not Twitter.
Mastodon really perfects the block feature by adding a "Block from instance" button that filters entire websites from your feed. You can wipe *@threads.com off your timeline with 2 clicks, it's glorious.
Musk is missing a key way that people use Twitter[0]: for community. Communities aren't a feature-supported thing. They're a spontaneous self-organization. People associate with others around some area of interest. They don't want it to be private; they want to be open and inviting. But they also want to be able to exclude those who make trouble. Musk suggests using mute instead of block, but that throws off the way…
To what extent is he eroding the trust in his other projects with everything he's done at Twitter so far? If this is how he runs things, I really don't want to be in/near a car built by a company run by Elon.
Was Musk always this mercurial or was he more competent at his previous companies? I still have trouble understanding how this man created something as good as SpaceX despite displaying no obvious indications of genius, and every sign of mediocrity, in his current state.
Well either your perception of things Musk does at SpaceX is wrong or your perception of things Musk does at X is wrong, right ?
Was Musk always this mercurial or was he more competent at his previous companies? I still have trouble understanding how this man created something as good as SpaceX despite displaying no obvious indications of genius, and every sign of mediocrity, in his current state.
> I still have trouble understanding how this man created something as good as SpaceX despite displaying no obvious indications of genius, and every sign of mediocrity, in his current state. Well either your perception of things Musk does at SpaceX is wrong or your perception of things Musk does at X is wrong, right ?