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Re: It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

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Post by dmix »

stefs wrote: post #133
polishdude20 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's easier to rally against some foe when that foe is one person. When it's a bunch of shareholders, the hatred is diluted.

that's exactly elons problem now. every unpopular action will be pinned on him personally. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitt...

Facebook's ire seems to always be focused on Zuckerberg. It was always that way, especially after the Social Network movie.

And despite about a decade of similar whining on HN about deleting Facebook they are still the most popular social network around.

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Post by sshine »

pastacacioepepe wrote: post #137
jdub wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter was already under a cloud while Musk was grandstanding his acquisition stunt. Once he was forced to go through with it, his immediate actions and communication confirmed how much chaos we (users, staff, customers) were in for. Then after one week, awfully mishandled mass layoffs, demands to massively reduce infrastructure costs, etc. Nothing's changed? Sure it has. Trust and confidence are hard to build, easy…

Chaos? I haven't been subject to any on Twitter lately. Actually it seems it finally stopped forcing me to signup? That alone is a great improvement.

It still does, but a lot longer down the page.

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Post by gonzo41 »

tga wrote: post #49

> I can’t see myself putting the same work in to help the world’s richest man pay the loans he took out So Twitter was “really good” (while it was helping the many rich shareholders of a random public company) but it’s suddenly “work” a couple of days after the owner changed? Nothing wrong for not using it because of ideological reasons, but the product’s accessibility (or anything else really) hasn’t changed yet.

I think it;s kind of screaming into the void to call people out on their inconsistent emotional decisions when that's all musk seems to do these days. Better to stand back and accept this is just humanity and enjoy the show.

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Post by kramerger »

tga wrote: post #49

> I can’t see myself putting the same work in to help the world’s richest man pay the loans he took out So Twitter was “really good” (while it was helping the many rich shareholders of a random public company) but it’s suddenly “work” a couple of days after the owner changed? Nothing wrong for not using it because of ideological reasons, but the product’s accessibility (or anything else really) hasn’t changed yet.

He also gave you a specific non-political reason (accessibility) in the sentences right above what you quoted.

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Post by nootropicat »

causi wrote: post #120
szundi wrote: post #84

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This. Even before Musk arrived there was a lot of debate about Twitter being overstaffed and departments are not producing any value at all. I don't know more or the details, but this is what sometimes I was reading years back.

That's the baffling thing to me. For the better part of a decade people have talked about Twitter being an overstaffed pack of idiots whose day to day largely consists of presiding over the fall of Western civilization. Now that they've been purchased by a jackass, however, they're suddenly a bunch of saints who've only been doing their best to hold back the tides of barbarism. I get the feeling that someone less of…

Hating Elon is in vogue now, anything else is irrelevant.

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

'Twitter’s priorities are no longer even remotely aligned with my own.'

Since when were they? The mistake was perhaps to ever think that they were. It was twitters 'priority to sell themselves to Musk, hence why they took him to court to ensure he bought them.

This is a somewhat crazy, knee-jerk reaction to some news headlines, the author has no idea of what is really happening, i'm not saying that i do, but for example the post says that 'the entire accessibility team' has been laid off then points to a tweet about someone saying there team had been laid off, firstly there is no indication that this is the 'entire accessibility team', just that the team this person was head off, secondly, the author has no idea about twitters accessibility plans in the future, for example, accessibility could have been given an even higher priority and given to a more competent team. Now i know this is likely not the case, but the real thing, is basically we don't know.

To make a knee-jerk reaction to a bunch of assumptions is crazy.

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

nirui wrote: post #142
schipplock wrote: post #87

I expect that the feature I’ll miss most from Twitter will be the algorithmic timeline! I must be old. I remember a time when people wanted a chronological timeline (on by default). Twitter still offers a chronological timeline, but now that people are migrating to Mastodon, I've come across the wish to have an algorithmic timeline again quite often :). I just find this interesting (I can relate, I find the algorithm…

I must've set it up wrong. My Twitter home page is filled with posts that I don't care from people I don't watch, Twitter repeatedly recycles and then pushes those content to me because it thinks I'll be interested. How arrogant. In my case, Twitter already has an algorithmic timeline. Now I read my daily news update from few subscribed newsletters, websites as well as r/worldnews. These are far better sources of inf…

It sounds like you'd be better off with the chronological view or just following more accounts.

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Post by sshine »

DanHulton wrote: post #129
luckylion wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I was happy to do free work for that billionaire, he's part of the same ideology I've been born into. But now that it's this other billionaire, I cannot continue."

That is absolutely not what they said, and you are being disingenuous by pretending that it is.

The point being made that Twitter was owned by rich people before Elon bought it.
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