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-- Screenshot 1: [Jack Dorsey] "Yes, a new platform is needed. It can't be a company. This is why I left." [Jack Dorsey] "https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/
by perihelions 4y ago
-- Screenshot 1:
[Jack Dorsey] "Yes, a new platform is needed. It can't be a company. This is why I left."
[Jack Dorsey] "https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267?s=20&t=8z3h0h0JG5ntB6Zuxd6lWg https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267?s=20..."
[Elon Musk] "Ok"
[Elon Musk] "What should it look like?"
[Jack Dorsey] "I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn't own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done. It can't have an advertising model. Otherwise you have surface area that governments and advertisers will try to influence and control. If it has a centralized entity behind it, it will be attacked. This isn't complicated work, it just has to be done right so it's resilient to what has happened to twitter."
[Elon Musk] "Super interesting idea"
-- Screenshot 2:
[Jack Dorsey] "I'm off the twitter board mid May and then completely out of company. I intend to do this work and fix our mistakes. Twitter started as a protocol. It should have never been a company. That was the original sin."
[Elon Musk] "I'd like to help if I am able to"
[Jack Dorsey] "I wanted to talk with you about it after I was all clear, because you care so much, get it's importance, and could def help in immeasurable ways. Back when we had the activist come in, I tried my hardest to get you on our board, and our board said no. That's about the time l decided I needed to work to leave, as hard as it was for me."
[Elon Musk] "Do you have a moment to talk?"
[Jack Dorsey] "Bout to head out to dinner but can for a minute"
-- Screenshot 3:
[Jack Dorsey] "I think the main reason is the board is just super risk averse and saw adding you as more risk, which I thought was completely stupid and backwards, but I only had one vote, and 3% of company, and no dual class shares. Hard set up. We can discuss more."
[Elon Musk] "Let's definitely discuss more"
[Elon Musk] "I think it's worth both trying to move Twitter in a better direction and doing something new that's decentralized"
[Jack Dorsey] "It's likely the best option. I just have doubts. But open"
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- cassianoleal 4y agoSo, they want to create Mastodon?
- k__ 4y agoProbably. Mastodon is lacking marketing, big names, etc. Could be that their solution isn't different from Mastodon in a technical way, but still is more successful.
- irusensei 4y agoMastodon 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 dependent on server hubs.
- therouwboat 4y agoI dont use mastodon, I use forums, but you just have to look until you find a good place and dont think you own your "avatar" or posts or anything. I have left few forums when they started to feel wrong and I have no problem with that.
- mavhc 4y agoTurns out twitter's not so bad at managing a few million users after all
- altcognito 4y agoYou mean administration is decentralized? Sounds like what they were going for.
- hk__2 4y ago> You mean administration is decentralized? (not OP) Not really. Accounts are linked to one single instance, and if the admin of that instance decides to ban you, the other instances can’t do anything about it. It’s not one decentralized administration but a lot of smaller centralized administrations.
- once_inc 4y agoPlease note this account also shared other messages between Musk and Agrawal.
- bamboozled 4y agoDoes anyone else find this conversation awkward / cringe worthy? "Hey genius billionaire, what's up?" "Oh hey other genius billionaire..." "Let's do some shit because you know, the morons on the board didn't get it, I just didn't get my way so I left to do bitcoinz", "Off to dinner, later bro, let's solve all the problems tomorrow"... "Cool bro, I'll try buy the company and forfeit at the last minute when I realize I just ran my mouth instead of being serious" "Sounds like a plan bro laters, nice work saving freedom..."
- secondcoming 4y agoNot me
- j3th9n 4y agoIf you translate it into this yes, but that's not how they talked to each other.
- veltas 4y agoThis is how a lot of people talk, you're just focusing on the billionaire part.
- bamboozled 4y agoRight, whens the last time you purchased a company for billions of dollars off the cuff ?
- veltas 4y agoI can imagine people having almost exactly the same conversation in hypotheticals.
- tomcam 4y agoStruck me as sincere
- DoctorOW 4y ago