Getting big "on a bender" vibes from Elon right now...
Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
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As opposed to which group of people who are more immune to it?
We are the ones extracting all the surplus money from society, so it is more important for us to stay good than for a random person to stay good.
Techies get paid well, but in the conflict between capital and labor, we're not capital. Not most of us anyway, not by a large margin. Occasionally a blessed few might win the IPO lottery and become rich enough to get out of the rat race, but exceedingly few become rich enough on top of that to "extract surplus money from society".
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#863Prohibited platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr So onlyfans is save. We have to change to that …
3rd party link aggregators are banned too and tons of SFW/NSFW content creators use them in their Twitter bios.
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#864I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…
> His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. I used to think that too, but I've since come across a story that SpaceX actually has people who's informal job is to manage him, and they present their ideas in such a way that he thinks they're his, in order to keep him happy. He's mostly there to bring money and hype. No idea if that story is true, but honestly, it would explain some things. The impression he's bee…
The difference with Twitter is that, being a web site and app, his decisions have immediate visibility. Bans, unbans, blue checkmarks — those become visible to everyone in the world to see right away.
With his other companies, the lag time before anything becomes public is longer. We presumably don't see a lot of the eccentric decisions Musk makes because the companies are able to course-correct before they end up becoming real.
Of course, we still get screws-ups like the Cybertruck and whatever that robot was.
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#865Honest question. What is probability that Elon will run poll and revert policy change? (My pick 80%)
The trick can only be played so many times before it gets old. Abrupt announcement of policy changes followed by strawpoll repeal is not going to undo 100% of the damage.
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> seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. Would be great to see you being more active on HN again!
Thanks, but as I learned when I was running HN, being a regular user of a forum (which the moderator necessarily is) and writing essays are fundamentally incompatible. If you're known to be a regular user of a forum, then when someone says something about you and you don't reply, it reads as a tacit admission that they're correct. And when you write essays people say all kinds of things about you. The combination is…
Can't we all just go back to syndicating RSS?
It was so simple in those days.
Except for that time before they got html escaping figured out and some joker put an unclosed tag in their title, and the entire blogoverse started blinking.
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You're assuming that Elon isn't doing what he intended to do, turn Twitter into his own personal, right wing echo-chamber with political influence.
You're being downvoted because HN is a lolbertarian paradise, but this is correct. He wants the Parler audience.
>HN is a lolbertarian paradise
The idea that HN is some sort of libertarian paradise is ridiculous. This is definitely a liberal haven.
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#868I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…
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#869Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, but as I learned when I was running HN, being a regular user of a forum (which the moderator necessarily is) and writing essays are fundamentally incompatible. If you're known to be a regular user of a forum, then when someone says something about you and you don't reply, it reads as a tacit admission that they're correct. And when you write essays people say all kinds of things about you. The combination is…
You should check out Radiopaper (radiopaper.com), which was designed to address this dynamic: when someone sends you a message or comments on something you wrote, their comment is only visible to you and remains unpublished until/unless you reply. HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31210680
Hello! I am the CEO and cofounder of Radiopaper. Thanks for mentioning us. The mechanism you describe is indeed one of the core features of the platform. The effect is to distributes moderation decisions to those most immediately affected
Re: Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
#870I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives. I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out…
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