Elon Musk Is Making Mark Zuckerberg Seem Cool Again
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Meanwhile, tbd, but looks like Threads is ramping up to be a participator system with the rest of the internet. That has nothing to do with Musk.
It just so happens to contrast heavily against Musk withdrawing Twitter more & more, becoming vastly less & less & less connected as apis close down & reading limitations add up.
I mean, why do you think Facebook _made_ Threads? It's hard to imagine them launching something like this outside the context of "Twitter is in trouble"; it would be dead on arrival.
I think Meta made threads because they recognized an existing undercurrent by the alpha geeks that's been active & thriving & growing since 2017. Meta realized they could be relevant if they didn't control it all. They realized the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace was already nuclear bombed by many nations, in anger, and opted to try find some place to go where the puck was moving.
This looks like a big Twitter related drama in the micro. But this is just the only space afforded by the macro, and everyone else is too stupid, too sluggish, too resistant, or too dumb to start adapting at all rationally. Threads is the only tech titan with even 1/4 a brain, & everyone else is going to get devoured by the child government would-be angry new gods of the world.
Memory is a fascinating thing.
As far as their impact on society through the organizations they control, the effect is indirect and murkier, they've both got some significant area. It's not like Z is a flatline.
UPDATE: from [https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-11/matt-l...] today: > Anyway now Musk owns Twitter, after paying $44 billion for it, and he is using it to talk about the size of his penis. These facts are also related.