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Interesting blind spot from PaulG last fall when he tweeted; https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/159285279618
by mikeyouse 4y ago
Interesting blind spot from PaulG last fall when he tweeted;
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961
It was never the (solely) the software that was going to kill Twitter, but a complete lack of understanding of the value proposition for literally any of the users.
- tootie 4y agoYeah I don't think another venture backed software company can solve this at all. The technical challenges behind hosting 140-character text snippets aren't huge. Obviously scale makes everything harder but the real challenge to this much user-generated content is moderation. And SV's juvenile obsession with libertarian values will just result in them reinventing 4chan over and over again. The next iteration of social media should be non-profit with explicit content guidelines that put safety and civility ahead of pure freedom. The platform has to be useable and enjoyable.
- scrollaway 4y agoElon's obviously much more of an idiot than a lot of people originally thought (myself included), but it doesn't really mean pg was wrong on this one. There's a lot of people out there who think they can run a company better than … well, anyone who has experience actually running companies.