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Lots of speculation about the motive in here, but isn't the simplest answer (not necessarily the correct one) that it saves billions of DB joins per day? I don'

Lots of speculation about the motive in here, but isn't the simplest answer (not necessarily the correct one) that it saves billions of DB joins per day? I don't think Elon has made a Twitter decision yet that would have made it more rather than less expensive to run.

dragonelite 2y ago
That was my speculation also on why he disabled seeing who also liked a post. Im sure it saves a lot in compute and bandwidth.
- gkoberger 2y ago
  This wasn't about money either. This was him wanting users to be able to boost reprehensible content without having to put their names on it. He sees this as an antidote to cancel culture; he's allowing people to support things they agree with without society's repercussions.
  - XorNot 2y ago
    Well hang on I mean we're also excluding option 3 here: they just straight up broke the service which provided that feature somewhere between haphazardly decommissioning a data center without planning, and the mass layoffs based on code commit printouts, and now no one knows how to fix it.
- swiftcoder 2y ago
  On the flip side of this, they turned on the (at least at first, fictitious) view counts for the opposite reason - despite being costly to calculate accurately, they provide an ego boost.
gkoberger 2y ago
The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of "free speech". He's been unblocking himself over the years, and this feels like the next logical step for him. I think its simple... a lot of people have blocked Elon, so Elon thinks blocking is bad.
- jdminhbg 2y ago
  That simple answer is wrong, because the changes don't make it so that people who blocked Elon see Elon's posts now.
  - a0123 2y ago
    Have you not paid attention to twitter since he bought it? The guy has been forcing his accounts and shit takes onto everyone's timelines. Accounts have mysteriously started following his account when they never manually did it. Muting his account hasn't properly worked since he bought twitter. It's literally what he's been doing it since day 1 of purchase. Sorry if that sounds a bit rude, but I'm just baffled by people literally denying reality when it smacks them in the face repeatedly.
    - jdminhbg 2y ago
      I'm sorry you're frustrated, but it has nothing to do with this change, which works in the opposite direction.
      - steele 2y ago
        [flagged]
      - xeyownt 2y ago
        No it doesn't. If you blocked Elon's account, you'll still see it on your timeline.
        crvdgc 2y ago
        The change is to let people who you've blocked (Elon) to see your posts, rather than their posts. Otherwise, blocking would be useless.
        jdminhbg 2y ago
        I don't particularly care to argue about whether or not that's true, I'm just pointing out that it's not the change being discussed here, which works in the opposite direction.
the_clarence 2y ago
IMO it was a product decision, and a great product decision at that (as much as I hate Elon)

dragonelite 2y ago

That was my speculation also on why he disabled seeing who also liked a post. Im sure it saves a lot in compute and bandwidth.

gkoberger 2y ago
This wasn't about money either. This was him wanting users to be able to boost reprehensible content without having to put their names on it. He sees this as an antidote to cancel culture; he's allowing people to support things they agree with without society's repercussions.
- XorNot 2y ago
  Well hang on I mean we're also excluding option 3 here: they just straight up broke the service which provided that feature somewhere between haphazardly decommissioning a data center without planning, and the mass layoffs based on code commit printouts, and now no one knows how to fix it.
swiftcoder 2y ago
On the flip side of this, they turned on the (at least at first, fictitious) view counts for the opposite reason - despite being costly to calculate accurately, they provide an ego boost.

gkoberger 2y ago

The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of "free speech". He's been unblocking himself over the years, and this feels like the next logical step for him. I think its simple... a lot of people have blocked Elon, so Elon thinks blocking is bad.

jdminhbg 2y ago
That simple answer is wrong, because the changes don't make it so that people who blocked Elon see Elon's posts now.
- a0123 2y ago
  Have you not paid attention to twitter since he bought it? The guy has been forcing his accounts and shit takes onto everyone's timelines. Accounts have mysteriously started following his account when they never manually did it. Muting his account hasn't properly worked since he bought twitter. It's literally what he's been doing it since day 1 of purchase. Sorry if that sounds a bit rude, but I'm just baffled by people literally denying reality when it smacks them in the face repeatedly.
  - jdminhbg 2y ago
    I'm sorry you're frustrated, but it has nothing to do with this change, which works in the opposite direction.
    - steele 2y ago
      [flagged]
    - xeyownt 2y ago
      No it doesn't. If you blocked Elon's account, you'll still see it on your timeline.
      - crvdgc 2y ago
        The change is to let people who you've blocked (Elon) to see your posts, rather than their posts. Otherwise, blocking would be useless.
      - jdminhbg 2y ago
        I don't particularly care to argue about whether or not that's true, I'm just pointing out that it's not the change being discussed here, which works in the opposite direction.

the_clarence 2y ago

IMO it was a product decision, and a great product decision at that (as much as I hate Elon)