It seems the like vanity and excitement of the early internet is dying out and more normal social circles are being established.
I learned it by watching you!
I have circle of acquaintances on Twitter and Facebook which are not strangers, but I don't feel like updating directly.
Sharing a wordle result with them and having an occasional exchange is akin to meeting them while walking on the street and exchanging a few words.
The chats with my family and friend groups are at a different level of communication.
I think there is a growing amount of people who want to get out of the social media Skinner box, and there are also growing amounts of people who believe in new and alternative technology like this.
Sure, these platforms might not appeal to someone who uses Facebook like you would a slot machine, but I know plenty of non-tech people who use things like Linux, Firefox, Android/LineageOS/GrapheneOS, etc for moral and ideologically appealing reasons.
Unless we can push ethical (and FOSS) software over the point of critical mass, it's a never-ending losing battle. And even if we get there, the battle for daily attention is much fiercer than, say, Blender or Godot permanently winning mindshare among professionals. Trends are fickle and even just by not being the next best thing, we can lose the masses to the next best Skinner box.
I have to admit I don't fully get this. What part of Twitter is mismanaged?
If management thinks that 7000+ aren't needed to make single page web-app, is reducing the work-force mismanagement? I'd consider it a healthy step towards creating an actually profitable company. I mean, who benefits from the company going bankrupt? Certainly not the employees.
Is allowing more people get to exercise freedom of speech mismanagement? Or that the new management polls the actual twitter user-base instead of listening to a select few people, seemingly only on one side of the political spectrum?
Also, since the new ownership came in place, supposedly 90%+ of sexual-abuse material and tags has been cleaned out and banned, something which was allowed to go on for years during old twitter management. That's a good change, right?
Is all this just about some people you don't like being un-banned? If so, you can still individually ignore them or block them, and just move on with your life, right?
I really, honestly don't get what all this hysteria is about.
Why participate in the hysteria if doesn't mean anything to you?
So I'm asking one guy who clearly has an opinion on it. Is that wrong?
Musk founded SpaceX and bought Tesla when it had like 6 employees, so everyone working in those two companies is used to his management style.
Twitter was a huge and sort-of stagnant company, they must feel as if they were hit by a hurricane, and this filters out to all sorts of media including HN.
Also, Twitter is all about publicity. We don't see what's happening within SpaceX, but we all watch whatever happens within Twitter in real time.
Thinking other people are not tapped in is a clear sign that you live in a bubble.