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Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by ceejayoz »

ghayes wrote: post #113
ceejayoz wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those have never done well. They want the angry/upset reaction they can't get in an echo chamber; the Parlers, Truth Socials, Gabs etc. will never give them this. They're already asking Musk to stop lefties from being able to even block them; it's the same phenomeon as incels. Free speech was never enough; they want an audience guaranteed, too. https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1604052966839062528

That’s simply not true, per the policy: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo... > At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL…

I don't follow. Did you mean to reply to a different comment?

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by kyleyeats »

dnissley wrote: post #63
belligeront wrote: post #15

Amazing 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…

When I disagree with someone, I do not necessarily think they're stupid. That's a needlessly polarizing mindset.

If you don't hate stupid people, how do you know that you're smart?

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by tayo42 »

ALittleLight wrote: post #53
DiNovi wrote: post #18

Paul is an out of touch reactionary billionaire. when you’ve lost your own, maybe it’s time to acknowledge you don’t know what you’re doing

I really wish I could see Twitter's internal dashboards. One thing I have a hard time estimating is, outside of my bubble, how is Twitter doing? Are these things hurting Twitter? Is the controversy helping it? I can't imagine what would motivate the decision to ban Mastodon links. Were they really losing users to Mastodon? That would be a huge problem, but not one that banning links would solve.

in the short term controversy and events drive traffic up. world cup going on, holidays and seasonal traffic, elon chaos. all probably makes twitter looks like a success at the moment. it would be to hard to separate out the traffic i think.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by 082349872349872 »

brainphreeze wrote: post #51
zzzeek wrote: post #22

This 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.

This website is heavily left leaning, like most of the internet these days.

what do you consider a centrist website?

(I am centre-right by my country's standards, yet my perception of HN is that it leans even more right)

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by adalacelove »

thinking4real wrote: post #20
halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #2

It's interesting to see these tech influencers and their lag time on giving Elon the benefit of the doubt before they've had enough. Will Elon ever have a "coming to jesus moment" and realize that he's alienated so many of his peers that he is, in fact, in the wrong? Or is he so delusional that he really does believe he has the answers?

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Terence Tao is on mastodon. Beat that!

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by sleepybrett »

ALittleLight wrote: post #53
DiNovi wrote: post #18

Paul is an out of touch reactionary billionaire. when you’ve lost your own, maybe it’s time to acknowledge you don’t know what you’re doing

I really wish I could see Twitter's internal dashboards. One thing I have a hard time estimating is, outside of my bubble, how is Twitter doing? Are these things hurting Twitter? Is the controversy helping it? I can't imagine what would motivate the decision to ban Mastodon links. Were they really losing users to Mastodon? That would be a huge problem, but not one that banning links would solve.

They have lost many of their previous highend brand advertising. I now see almost exclusively advertisting from right wing alt brands like 'black rifle coffee'. One can safely assume that their advertising revenue has taken a huge hit. A few thousand people tossing elon $8 a month isnt going to make up for that.

Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now

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Post by tauntz »

brainphreeze wrote: post #51
zzzeek wrote: post #22

This 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.

This website is heavily left leaning, like most of the internet these days.

..like most of the world, really. I'm not sure where some people got the impression that people are anywhere close to being 50/50 between left vs right.
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