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Where do folks actually live in those areas? Is it that a 30min drive north to San Fran becomes a 30min drive south to San Jose?
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twitter is dying / becoming another truth. pushing anyone that has differing views from the platform is leaving it as another right wing echo chamber. It's already far from the bastion of information flow than it used to be, but still retains some visibility because of it's history and brand name. This value is dropping fast - I'm not the person that you are asking, but I strongly suspect by the time the next electio…
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As someone who uses Twitter to only follow Japanese people in Japan speaking Japanese, nothing was ever forced into my feed under the old management, it was all related Japanese hobby stuff, I saw zero English and zero politics.
Now it's super obvious that every n-th algorithmic entry has to be some blue check content to push their paid engagement numbers, and it's always some US brain rot, the algorithmic feed is completely useless for discovery now.
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Free speech is not without consequences. It’s just that the consequences you face are reverse proportional to your wealth.
Not for Elon or Trump? Say more insane things (which gets normies banned), get more money.
I don't know US commutes, or US geography too well. But it seems these two locations are about 45mins-1hr drive from each other. Where do folks actually live in those areas? Is it that a 30min drive north to San Fran becomes a 30min drive south to San Jose?
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You might be right when it comes to employees, but definitely not when it comes to users. There's a lot of people using X, and the vast, vast majority of them don't care much for Musk or actively dislike him. THe problem with X is that it is (and always was) sort of an echo chamber, there's no average X user, everybody sees very different content based on what they follow. The average HNer probably won't notice the h…
But I recently created a disposable account because it happens that my regional train lines have hired good community managers and so I know I can reach them. Otherwise I just never use it.
Since I subscribed to basically nothing, I’ve got the full algorithm version. It’s frankly horrible. I’m submerged by far right content and civilization wars.
It’s perfect for my social media addiction because it make me want to leave as soon as I finished what I had to do but it really feels like an unsafe place for anyone who somehow still have some mental health left.
I imagine that people with more suscriptions are seeing less of this shit but I wouldn’t be so sure and also, I personally wouldn’t tolerate to use a platform with such dysfunctional moderation.
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Free speech is not without consequences. It’s just that the consequences you face are reverse proportional to your wealth.
Free speech, at least on the Internet, means say what don't get the majority nod and enjoy getting harassed to literal suicide, death, mental health consequences, or all of above. Right makes might, not the normal way around.
IOW, free speech do come with consequences, and it's super-proportional on the Internet.
Doing this on a few weeks notice seems rather insane to me. Unless you have very good remote work options this is very disruptive for employees.
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> With the remote work push, the argument about talent pool is moot as well. Isn't Elon massively anti-remote?
Not only Elon Musk. Lots of companies are backtracking on full remote work. Statu quo seems to be hybrid work for many big companies.
That’s the status quo until they rescind that as well. The companies who transitioned to hybrid early have been ending it since mid-late 2023 and the efforts have only ramped up in 2024.
Hybrid is a great way to cripple remote work too: remote work requires good communication hygiene in the company, hybrid makes that falter by reinstating the old direct back-channels, now you can degrade systematic communications and hobble remote workers, then justify RTO on those grounds.
And then remote work and quality of life is back to being a perk of upper management, “as it should be”.