I found it funny that he was scared of upsetting advertisers and tanking the stock for employees. Meanwhile, Elon Musk came in, fired 70% of the staff, said the F word to advertisers on live TV, and managed to keep the whole thing running, even accelerating product launches.
Even though I like and agree with Jack's general sentiment, I think he was weak.
Anyway, I like the idea of open competing platforms where no government can censor any speech. Censorship regimes will fight any such platform to hades and back though, so it's debatable whether it'll end up being useful
But since he fired 70% of the company the cost of keeping it running is also down, that is why Twitter could survive such massive losses in revenue. Now they're trying to diversify revenue sources
Try posting some CSAM somewhere and declaring that no government can censor it, and see how that goes, and who you find yourself allied with and who you find yourself alienated from as a result.
Censorship resistance is a nice principle that I agree should carry a lot of weight in a lot of situations, but it isn't everything.
The thing Dorsey got really upset about: Bluesky users demanded moderation and it was put into place. Yeah, that was it.
It turns out that actual users who want to talk to their friends and make new friends don't like wading through poop.
There is not a single thing in that interview about what people who want to socially interact might want from a site for the purpose of social interaction. Except that Twitter users moving to Bluesky to use it was apparently a bad thing?
Actual users literally did not want the thing Jack was selling, and he stormed out because of it.
He tried again at Nostr, but the only people who wanted his ideas turned out to be crypto bros trying to scam each other. Ordinary users were not interested in this weird nonsense.
What Dorsey actually deleted his Bluesky account over was when he posted advocacy for RFK Jr's anti-vax nonsense and the users made fun of him relentlessly for it. So, the use case for Twitter: when a famous person insists on making an ass of themselves in public and the public can throw rotten tomatoes at them.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 19.0 ms ] threadEven though I like and agree with Jack's general sentiment, I think he was weak.
Anyway, I like the idea of open competing platforms where no government can censor any speech. Censorship regimes will fight any such platform to hades and back though, so it's debatable whether it'll end up being useful
Censorship resistance is a nice principle that I agree should carry a lot of weight in a lot of situations, but it isn't everything.
The thing Dorsey got really upset about: Bluesky users demanded moderation and it was put into place. Yeah, that was it.
It turns out that actual users who want to talk to their friends and make new friends don't like wading through poop.
There is not a single thing in that interview about what people who want to socially interact might want from a site for the purpose of social interaction. Except that Twitter users moving to Bluesky to use it was apparently a bad thing?
Actual users literally did not want the thing Jack was selling, and he stormed out because of it.
He tried again at Nostr, but the only people who wanted his ideas turned out to be crypto bros trying to scam each other. Ordinary users were not interested in this weird nonsense.
What Dorsey actually deleted his Bluesky account over was when he posted advocacy for RFK Jr's anti-vax nonsense and the users made fun of him relentlessly for it. So, the use case for Twitter: when a famous person insists on making an ass of themselves in public and the public can throw rotten tomatoes at them.
Here's a thread from one of the Bluesky devs on this interview with Dorsey: (part 1) https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3ks3iv5iwqs22 (part 2) https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3ks3jv5zv3a2o