Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.
sounds like facebook
I resigned from Twitter
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The problem here is that "toxic" is subjective, what I find toxic and disagreeable may not be the same thing you find toxic and disagreeable. Take for example hot button issue of Gun ownership, I believe it an essential right and extension of self defense, others view any talk about guns as toxic that should be banned. Who's worldview should win? Mine, your's, Twitters? IMO platforms like twitter should not be making…
To not promote toxicity, one could just avoid amplifying anything that’s a hot button or divisive issue. However, incentives don’t align with that. The key is the issue is the amplification. Promoting of content you’re not following in feeds. Of course, completely changing it back to only content from those you follow in chronological order and allowing you to curate would solve that problem as well, but there’s no w…
Speech is easy if all you post is kitten video's
The most interesting conversation by necessity have to be "hot button" or "divisive" that is how we grow as a culture, a society.
If we always avoid anything that is divisive than we never can address any problems
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I don't think it can be fixed. Social media in general is a cancer.
HN is a social medium.
HN is unappealing to the average internet user. It's topical, nerdy, lacks images and video, has zero engagement algorithms, and the "karma" is hidden.
It's also aggressively moderated. I can only post ~4 times a day since my account got flagged / rate limited for participating in flame wars about China, Apple, monopolies, etc. There's probably no way out of this except to create a new account.
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#334I have no particular beef with Dorsey but I think this would make sense. He's been CEO of both Square and Twitter for years now and no matter what time you wake up in the morning or however many specials diets you undertake you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is. I think the bigger issue is who gets to replace him: will it be someone with smart ideas or someone to serve as a puppet of activist in…
> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-do ... Stunning article. Everyone has a bit of dirt on them I suppose, and it's more important than ever to safeguard one's privacy.
404?
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#335> you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is How the fuck does Elon do it then? The mf has like four concurrent organizations under his helm. > I think the bigger issue is who gets to replace him: will it be someone with smart ideas or someone to serve as a puppet of activist investors? The rising stock price implies yes. Elliot MG has been desperate to make twitter the next mega app. Expect payment…
> How the fuck does Elon do it then? The mf has like four concurrent organizations under his helm. Tesla = primary concern | SpaceX = Gwynne Shotwell (Prez & COO) | Boring Company/Neuralink ["Labs" projects] = funsies
Every company he starts/runs is to enable viable Mars civilization. SpaceX = get us there. Tesla = cash cow for SpaceX + Mars ground transportation. SolarCity = energy infra for a Mars colony. Boring = radiation protection for Mars habitats. Neuralink = moonshot cash cow, advancement of neural medicine for Mars colony.
Trying to advance/safeguard humanity is the most funsies thing one can do.
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> you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is. I agree. As much as he tried to justify the dual CEO roles, it never made any sense. It was also maddening to watch him shift to a 3rd focus of promoting cryptocurrency and his own cryptocurrency investments. Hanging on to the CEO role of both Twitter and Square put him in a great position to push both companies toward more cryptocurrency integration, but…
Would you critique Musk in a similar way? Honest question, because it's eerie how you could swap Dorsey for Musk and the statements would still apply but seem much less true.
>Would you critique Musk in a similar way?
Absolutely. Musk's companies manage to get stuff done, but are any of them particularly "well run"?
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#337Twitter made me feel: some combination of violated, indignant, numb, inferior, empty, powerless, disappointed, embarassed, furious, annoyed, and infuriated.
In many ways, Twitter is as life itself.
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remarkably, those who bash him are the same people twitter has done everything to bend over backwards for. same on reddit, facebook, twitch, etc. people on the opposite side of the privileged class are barely allowed to exist on those platforms - only if they police their speech very carefully to avoid breaking a myriad of vague and unwritten rules, and even then they're still subject to being unpersoned for some per…
> only if they police their speech very carefully to avoid breaking a myriad of vague and unwritten rules, and even then they're still subject to being unpersoned for some perceived offense committed off-platform Not sure what you're talking about. Can you provide examples/evidence?
there's no way I can be more specific without getting [flagged][dead]. this isn't my first throwaway.
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The only issue with this is you create your own echo chamber. imo it's why conservatives feel so emboldened, recently -- they have surrounded themselves with people who agree with them making their "movement" seem larger than it actually is.
I can enjoy a tweet while at the same time disagreeing with it. Same on HN. I often upvote comments, even though I disagree with them, whenever I feel they’re a meaningful contribution to the discourse.
Kudos. Many times if I want to bring up an unpopular opinion of mine it will get downvoted to oblivion, so I have to self-censor.
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I don't think it can be fixed. Social media in general is a cancer.
Social media can be fixed by legislating it out of existence. It doesn't even need a watchdog agency like the environment does.
What makes you think HN is exempt from that?
If you feel it needs fixing by killing it then why are you participating in it, and by extension validating it rather than arguing for that fix?