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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don’t think “I don’t think it suffers from inherent problems” is a universal opinion: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-where-did-tweet... Also, people talk about the bot problem like non-stop, including t
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This isn’t really true though, the left has always been concerned that social media censors them, and why wouldn’t you be? Speech is power, and the left is all about promoting their own ideas(not uniquely so, just pointing it out). in fac
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Part of the problem is I think we’re largely on our own to try and put words to feelings and patterns that aren’t pathological. People don’t like when someone says “I’m totally OCD” when describing a behavioral difficulty because it can mi
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I wonder how they’re doing on this goal, looks like revenue peaked in Q1 2021 and is on its way down.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I wonder why Jack never grew Twitter, it makes me wonder if keeping all those politicians and celebrities happy is more than a full time job. I have to imagine the appeal of twitter is on some level how easily a journalist or politician or
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I mean, I love it, but that’s not a solution, it’s a fantasy.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> HN, for example, is already taken over. There are nationalistic and politically-inclined shill groups Evidence?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> just because it's easier to consume fake news now doesn't mean we need a radically new solution. Your arguments don’t seem to support this conclusion, why not? Methods change when technology changes.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> How about "fight" "disinformation" "weapons" with explanations of the truth Tell me how this isn’t comparable to saying “if you just explain to the trolls they are hurting your feelings, they’ll stop” I 10
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Does he really work 18+ hour days, practically speaking? It’s not Musk Co, Tesla, space ex and twitter are three different companies. I may not care how he spends his time, but time spent not working for the company I work for might as we
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think this idea is great except for the whole making money thing, yes everyone here would love to have a twitter where you only see the content you signed up to de , us and a few million other folks who would use the app much less than ad
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by mikkergp 4y ago
With all these layoffs, Hopefully he brings back the fail whale.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> The topics discussed on twitter are also far less niche and more current, politicians, celebrities, artists, companies all use it, so it mostly can't experience meltdown by changing its policies, So this is actually a very interes
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Im not 100% convinced that tanking Twitter is less honest and ethical than continuing to support it… depending on the scope of the context.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> You see this whenever Elon talks about the "far left". This is such a laughable concept. The "far left" in American politics quite often simply means "we should let trans people exist" Look I’m probably so
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Because he’s usually self deprecating? I didn’t think this was a particularly kind analysis, my assessment was basically he’ll do whatever makes him the most money (or loses him the least)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It seems like if these general purpose social networks aren’t resilient to the population growing and diversifying…. I mean, I’m not saying there isn’t plenty of evidence to suggest this is hard if not impossible (ahem twitter) but it also
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, he’s said a lot of conflicting things and put himself in a precarious position. I both wouldn’t be truly surprised if he grows twitter nor if he laid 75% of people off on Monday.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Musk is going to prove it once again. You make it sound like this has been proven many times, examples?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Really the Ye thing doesn’t matter because I under minded my own argument :-) I think all those terrible things are coming but he’s going to thread the needle around discoverability to make it palatable. Too much chaos isn’t good for anyon
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Musk earlier today he didn’t bring Kanye back. I mean he’s certainly riling up the dregs of humanity and now not like a good person but I don’t think he’s going to burn 44 bil > My prediction is Musk flails about, burns a pile of money,
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by mikkergp 4y ago
The legal system largely doesn't have to worry about advertisers and users fleeing the country.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think I'm taking him at his incentives. 44 billion is a lot of incentive.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
So yeah actually, I was thinking about this but advertisers have abandoned Fox News in droves. They have a relatively narrow advertising block it's mostly middle of the road car and insurance companies and other big brands with big mo
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Maybe shareholders was the wrong term, doesn’t he have a duty to like the banks and Saudis and other investors
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think this was mostly bluster, sure hell have to lay off a lot of people to change the company direction but his pitch to investors said the company would grow to like 12000 people.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Hell%20Hound#content
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by mikkergp 4y ago
He still has a fiduciary duty since he's not the sole shareholder though.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This is vague, but you're hoping to end the political oppression of trans people? > restore sanity to science and biology based cultural agreement What does this mean, like scientific studies on how to get people to agree?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Is it? I haven't seen that yet, did someone put out a poll recently?

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