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Pretty clear where their priorities lay, huh. Breaking the security of their users is less important than getting new users.
by user-the-name 6y ago
Pretty clear where their priorities lay, huh. Breaking the security of their users is less important than getting new users.
- simlevesque 6y agoExtreme growth hacking
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoYeah, just open the flood gates to bots. Twitter would be 100x as large now. Wasn't it something like 99% of e-mail was spam? The downsides of an open / decentralized platform.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoMaybe we should stop idolizing free speech, and instead work towards inexpensive speech :)
- swiley 6y agoOf course, they couldn't compete in the competently run micro blogging market because mastodon instances are free and have no ads. Instead they competed with twitter in the incompetently run micro blogging market.
- mabbo 6y agoNah man, I won't criticize too hard. There but for the grace of god goes I, you know? I've had flakey dependencies. I've thought "maybe fail open is okay in this one case". You're growth hacking your company and you don't want to be held back because a dependency can't handle your scale. And hey, if a few fraudulent accounts get in, we'll just clean them up later. Cost benefit analysis here, right? But the road to hell is paved with trying to improve user experience.
- enkid 6y agoIsn't that exactly what the above comment is saying?
- user-the-name 6y agoSo, you agree with what I said.
- mabbo 6y agoYeah, but you said it with what looked like a lot of sarcasm and criticism. I said it with a tone of "Oh shit, I could have done exactly the same thing". Empathy. But it's a fun point of the nuances of language, isn't it? Maybe I misunderstood you.
- myWindoonn 6y agoWell, having empathy with growth hackers is reprehensible and worth critiquing. The idea of growing a business for the sake of having a big business is horrifying; it's the desire to explicitly build a large social institution and use it to damage and oppress people. From that perspective, you're the one lacking in empathy; you would like us to have our sympathies lie with the few who build businesses, rather than the many who are harmed by the business.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI think you are allowed to have empathy for both.
- user-the-name 6y agoBut only one was displayed here.
- user-the-name 6y agoMaybe your takeaway there should be, "oh shit, I would have exactly the same thing, I need to rearrange my priorities so that I don't hurt people".