I resigned from Twitter
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For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality.
Most importantly, Twitter is the only social media company taking real action on the addiction and mental health impacts. You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You can pay to remove some ads. They’re not perfect, but they’ve done much more than anyone else.
Beyond all of that, I think Jack was the most trustworthy figure running social media. Not a super high bar, but he was willing to engage with the topic deeply. I think he did Rogan’s podcast twice, the second time shortly after the first because the feedback was that they didn’t engage critically enough. That’s ~6 hours of fairly open conversation, most people stick to 5 minute news segments.
It's been pretty persistent in forgetting that I want chronological....
None of them are products people actually want. They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them.
> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed.
You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one every few weeks of use. They've stopped doing that but that is such a minimum effort thing I do not want to give them any credit for fixing the thing they broke on purpose.
I wish for that too. But their moderation has shown they don’t believe it. It is one of the most opaque and arbitrary processes you can find. If they really want to be transparent (and build a healthy platform) they need to fix that first.
I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
> Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India.
The other day I was watching a news video on advancement on battery tech, two seperate companies, both had indian ceo
I guess it just worked out for them, or perhaps we notice them more because they stick out? isn't there like a name for this effect?
A lot of global brands have or have recently had Indian CEOs as well (Pepsi, MasterCard, etc).
I like Jack a lot and wish him all the best.
Expect accelerating changes to the “free speech arm of the free speech party”