What/who is Dorsey referring to when he says "Back when we had the activist come in" ? It's cute Musk thinks decentralised Twitter is a 'Super interesting idea' - come on, really? It's like two people discussing Blockchain when it first entered into the Zeitgeist a decade ago.
Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
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Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#62Shame he couldn't do anything about that when he was either CEO, chairman or on the board of Twitter (for most of its existence). As Bloomberg said yesterday: "Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/twitter-t... https://archive.ph/7ugqn
Bloomberg are idiots talking out of their asses. They have never worked in tech companies
This is funny, because that's exactly the thing "The Old Industries" said before being disrupted by tech companies.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#63The chat thread looked so farcical that I had to double check it wasn't a parody account. Is it possible the text has been edited? It just looks too scripted, especially since Jack Dorsey had shared his thoughts regarding Twitter being intended as a protocol publicly.
Completely agree, none of the facts align with what they are saying. I mean imagine having billions of dollars in your pocket and pretending you can’t start a protocol that looks like mastodon or xmpp… These guys know their records are going to be subpoenaed.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#64For someone invested in decentralized protocols, it just sounds like people trying to reinvent the wheel. "let’s make it decentralized" "wow, very cool idea". Those guys are business guys but they have no idea what they are talking about. They don’t know the first bit about technical decentralization, about prior art, about the politics involved. They are so close of realizing that their companies are Frankenstein mo…
It's called the Media business model where we get the user to trade privacy for features and earn revenue on abusing privacy.
Given Apple's moves in the iOS app space and the way young people talk and behave; the next social media platform will be a low paid app that has full privacy and is non-ad revenue based and is centralized.
It will be some company that is super transparent but at the same time has figured out that one can provide paid services of value user of social media would pay for.
It might even be one of us that is reading this message that goes on to form such a social platform.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#65What/who is Dorsey referring to when he says "Back when we had the activist come in" ? It's cute Musk thinks decentralised Twitter is a 'Super interesting idea' - come on, really? It's like two people discussing Blockchain when it first entered into the Zeitgeist a decade ago.
Mudge, maybe?
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#66What/who is Dorsey referring to when he says "Back when we had the activist come in" ? It's cute Musk thinks decentralised Twitter is a 'Super interesting idea' - come on, really? It's like two people discussing Blockchain when it first entered into the Zeitgeist a decade ago.
Probably the "Activist Shareholders" - Elliott Management - that tried to get seats on the board (and kick him out) in 2020.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#67Shame he couldn't do anything about that when he was either CEO, chairman or on the board of Twitter (for most of its existence). As Bloomberg said yesterday: "Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/twitter-t... https://archive.ph/7ugqn
It seems to me that once your middle management is infested with the wrong kind of non-tech people (because you couldn't resist "growing" forever), you don't stand a chance anymore.
To me it seems this is what happened to Larry & Sergey, too.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, they want to create Mastodon?
Mastodon is worse than twitter. You need to either maintain or join a server that is often managed by tyrannical admins that are even more trigger happy on silencing individuals and even other servers. You, your post history and account identity are at the mercy of those server administrators who can basically lock you out. IMO credentials and identity management must be self hosted mobile and preferably not dependen…
You mean administration is decentralized? Sounds like what they were going for.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#69Shame he couldn't do anything about that when he was either CEO, chairman or on the board of Twitter (for most of its existence). As Bloomberg said yesterday: "Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/twitter-t... https://archive.ph/7ugqn
Bloomberg are idiots talking out of their asses. They have never worked in tech companies
You are both right and wrong.
Bloomberg IS a tech company. But the journalists obviously don't mingle with that part.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#70Shame he couldn't do anything about that when he was either CEO, chairman or on the board of Twitter (for most of its existence). As Bloomberg said yesterday: "Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-29/twitter-t... https://archive.ph/7ugqn
It seems to me that once your middle management is infested with the wrong kind of non-tech people (because you couldn't resist "growing" forever), you don't stand a chance anymore. To me it seems this is what happened to Larry & Sergey, too.
> that once your middle management is infested with the wrong kind of non-tech people
Surely that's the responsibility of the CEO/chairman/board who recruit and direct the staff?