Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165
Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
101–110 of 1001 posts
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#102I can't read this tweet because he's blocked me. Can someone tell me what it says?
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#103Amazing that just a month ago he tweeted[1]: "It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.". It's been fascinating watching so many VC types ignore so many red flags just because some of Elon's early actions validated their priors (e.g. tech companies are bloated and need to layoff staff). [1] https://twi…
Obsession with politics is a cancer that infects even the brightest
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#104I wonder when, if ever, mainstream migration will happen. For example most TV channels were posting World Cup goals on Twitter asap. Same if you follow for example NFL. Easy to follow the games with instant highlights. When will these leave or simply stop posting?
Why would they?
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#105You know how Musk promises one thing and delivers something else? I'm not the biggest Musk fan but I believe he has a very effective process and he is a product person - that is understands what is a good product. He will never deliver a free speech platform, he is a free-speech NIMBY and has an agenda os something that drives him but he can still turn Twitter into something valuable. Then people will come back for w…
> I'm not the biggest Musk fan but I believe he has a very effective process and he is a product person What a weird thing to say after he killed twitter with his "process". Perhaps this dumpster fire is the best view yet into what he really believes, and how he really runs his companies. Elon is a modern day Kissinger
> Elon is a modern day Kissinger
You're going to have to elaborate on that fascinating historical reference.
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought it'd collapse on the tech side before the policy side. Rather shocked the mask has come off this quickly on what "free speech" actually meant.
Large distributed systems that have already been built can often limp along for a very long time before falling over. I would give Twitter at least another 3-6 months for stuff to start breaking.
Yep. Distributed systems, like any complex systems, follow "slowly at first, then all at once."
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#107He'll be back.
If you hate Twitter you will despise Mastodon.
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#108So, when is @HNStatus leaving Twitter?
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#109Can't say about pg, but I left Twitter (I'm a regular, non-blue user) because the ads lately got out of control. Every other post is a promoted ad from a totally unrelated category, which I can't relate to. Ads targeting either stopped working, or Twitter allowed large numbers of low quality advertisers to push their ads.
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#110This should cause a significant degree of cognitive dissonance for quite a lot of Hacker News users. fascinating to see two members of the billionaire tech class disagree publicly like this.
I mean my reaction is: ok I don’t care about this billionaire spat