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Community Notes is literally the one good thing that has happened to X in this whole thing.
by bandrami 3y ago
Community Notes is literally the one good thing that has happened to X in this whole thing.
- pavlov 3y agoCommunity Notes was introduced in Jan 2021 as “Birdwatch”, so it precedes the Musk acquisition.
- astrange 3y agoThey did expand it so it applies to ads, which is inexplicable when you're trying to get more ads.
- boffinAudio 3y ago.. but perfectly reasonable if you're trying to avoid being embroiled in political agitprop campaigns by known bad faith actors whose money you nevertheless enjoy receiving ..
- astrange 3y agoThat doesn't seem to have much to do with a note on a phone game ad saying nothing in the ad shows real gameplay.
- bowsamic 3y agoIt's utilised far more now than it was back then
- Hamuko 3y agoWhich also leads it to being wrong far more now. My favourite example is the community note on Musk's block removal tweet, which argues that App Store wouldn't let them do it. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1692558414105186796 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1692558414105186796 And if you actually open the App Store rules link, it says "To prevent abuse, apps with user-generated content or social networking services must include [...] The ability to block abusive users from the service". As in, X needs the ability to ban users from X. It seems to me like community notes are a great way to push whatever reactionary narrative someone manages to cook up when they oppose the person tweeting / the topic at hand.
- bowsamic 3y agoIt's a good way to push any "status quo" narrative. Community Notes present themselves as true, so naturally people don't question the things that they link to. I've seen posts before where many incorrect Community Notes come and go on that same post. It is the standard internet psychology: someone says something that seems dubious or they are generally a dubious person, a "sensible" person or agency (Community Notes) comes along with a lot of popular support to offer a rebuttal, a vast majority then assume the latter is true without bothering to check. The act of professional sounding, assumedly popular rebuttal, given with sources, is enough for people to accept a random thing as a fact. Almost no one checks the sources. EDIT: I am unsure why you were downvoted
- pjc50 3y ago.. because replies were destroyed by prioritizing blueticks. Community Notes is the new "ratioing" for bad tweets.
- madeofpalk 3y agoUnder no circumstances do you "gotta hand it to them", but Musk took the private beta, US-only Birdwatch, renamed it to something less cute (but ultimately a more pragmatic name), and launched it more broadly.
- troupo 3y agoThat is he did what every single company does: takes a beta project launched to a limited audience and rolls it out to a wider audience.
- flagrant_taco 3y agoI think the point is that while he doesn't really deserve credit for developing the project, he was in charge when it was rolled out. He could have easily killed the beta project as having failed or a leftover project from the people that used to be there.
- viraptor 3y agoSure, he can get credit for not making a bad decision in this case and defaulting to a good outcome. (He met the minimum benchmark a product manager would be expected to do, but let's not overstate his part)
- wilg 3y agoWhat you're describing is a good decision.
- albedoa 3y agoNo, what's being described is a non-decision, of which there is an infinite amount. (I'm not making most of them right now!) You took "not making a bad decision" to mean "making a good decision", but there is another way to not make a bad decision.