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Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter
(www.businessinsider.com)
Well stop trying to make twitter then you fuckin idiot.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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He was on the board, it's not like it was his project or anything. Imo he wanted to create a protocol, not a platform. "Improve Activitypub" like they always claimed. But then Bluesky realized that they can simply build their own platform and be Twitter 2.0
He should just contribute to mastodon instead.
Its community based so his opinion could be ignored, unlike when he's on a board and his opinion was ignored.
Moderation should always be client side. Server side should not be able to interfere or even read public content
@interdimensionalmeme There are different opinions about this. And luckily people can chose networks according to their specific opinions.
Moderation should always be client side. Server side should not be able to interfere or even read public content
Yup. I don't know if I agree re public content, but perhaps private messages should be encrypted, client side, before sending? That issue is one that bothers me about Mastodon.
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Several of you seem to be misunderstanding. When he says “like Twitter” it’s not in the negative ways you are thinking. It’s in the negative ways he’s thinking. Meaning censorship and being able to ban accounts. He doesn’t want that. Mastodon would have the same criticisms if he commented on it.
Oh right, is that this new "free speech absolutism" I've heard about? 🙃
Unless it is pro-Palestinian speech of course
Or speech that hurts his feelings
These billionaires are just regular people with less empathy (there are no ethical billionaires). They have the same braindead ideas we all have if we dont know anything about a topic and are in a talkative mood or possibly drunk or high, or all of those combined I guess.
Wasn't twitter really good about banning actual Nazis and not banning journalists until Musk came along? After Musk came, Nazis were unbanned and we saw a huge wave of journalists getting banned.
Before Musk, Twitters advertising was driven by engagement, and engagement was driven by encountering things that made you angry. So they were slow to respond to anything but the most egregious cases of hatred and bigotry.
It was always pretty bad, musk just made it worse
No... NO. It was appallingly terrible at banning Nazis, worse than even Reddit in many ways. Twitter banned a tiny, tiny fraction of extremely prominent and openly fascist accounts that had been permitted to operate for years, but they ignored Nazi dogwhistles from large accounts and smaller accounts that didn't gain a following and were used to harass 1-2 people were generally allowed to operate freely.
Remember: they didn't even ban Donald Trump himself until he tried to literally violently overthrow the US government. Twitter pre-Musk was an absolute shit hole, but it was at least headed in a hopeful direction. Musk kept it a shit hole and just changed the direction it was going.
He was mad nazis and abusers were getting banned already. He, like spez, are "both sides" isming because they want as much traffic as possible regardless of quality because its about the money to them, not the quality of experience.
They built it to be another Twitter.
That's what I was thinking. Wasn't that the point?
Everyone on Masto/Fedi has been memeing about this since the start: Whatever platform Dorsey's on becomes Twitter, lol.
At least Dorsey is thinking about social platforms, problems. Did you even read the post or simply spouting what your tribe says in your echo chamber?
I was elected to meme, not to read.
bluesky has a robust moderation system which blocks transphobes, bigots, and racism which is why jack hates it.
It doesn't block them though does it? My understanding is that it simply filters them so that you don't see them anymore. They're still there doing their thing though.
You're correct. It doesn't stop Nazis from having a home or building a following. It just allows users to not see it.
Uh... source? This runs counter to everything I've seen and read about it.
So it's like Reddit
Twitter is merely a Nazi bar when what Jack wanted was a Turbo-Nazi bar.
jwz: Blockchain Rasputin over here is mad that moderation exists
It has been obvious to anyone paying attention that the reason Dorsey founded and funded Bluesky was with the end goal of enabling Twitter to go [Spider-Man Pointing dot GIF] any time an actual Nazi showed up, because moderation was not their problem, they just outsourced it to a series of nested shell companies (that they fund) who act as reputation laundries and liability crumple zones.
Now he pouts and says the quiet part out loud.
So then he went back to Twitter? 😵💫
He's mostly on nostr of all places...
A regular Nostr Dumbass
Nostr is a cryptobro swamp. It must be awash is scams. I'm not going to look because I don't care enough to find out.
Man...no leadership, no accountability, just a rich billionaire drifter acting like he has principles. Idgaf, I like fediverse, and I like my block button...it's the only alt I've found that isn't a rightwing cess pool full of degens.
Has he heard about Mastodon?
It would be funny if he started a Mastodon instance with whatever his values are. The reason he would never do that is because it's not for profit.
Why would that matter?
'Cause we gotta keep the fediverse growing, that's why.
Why?
He really doesn't understand people, does he?
He's like the libertarian techbro equivalent of a Stalinist tankie.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Because — in Dorsey's telling, at least — Bluesky was "literally repeating all the mistakes [Twitter] made as a company."
That's the TLDR from an interview Dorsey conducted with journalist Mike Solana at his Pirate Wires site.
And then Dorsey decided what he really wanted to do was help Nostr, another Twitter alternative, which promises to actually be an open-source protocol, instead.
Dorsey, for instance, has some mostly kind words about Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022.
Though that mostly repeats his idea that Twitter's original sin was becoming a venture-backed, for-profit company that went public with a business model based on advertising, positioned as a Facebook competitor.
But that story/argument isn't a new one — you can find it in this four-episode podcast series I hosted last year, for instance.
The original article contains 349 words, the summary contains 132 words. Saved 62%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana the original article
Too bad most commenting haven't read the interview (what else is new, eh?). I like this, Jack Dorsey responding to a question on how the US government had its hooks into Twitter's leadership before the buyout:
I think it was problematic, and I also don't think the people who got called out in the Twitter Files get enough credit for pushing back on government requests. The U.S. is certainly one of them. Twitter has a track record of fighting the U.S. on free speech causes, especially around transparency reports. Opening the lens even broader to other governments, we had even more fights. Tons of fights with India, Turkey, Russia, Nigeria. These are all governments that threatened arrest of our employees, raided our employees' homes, offices, asking for phone numbers and personal information for accounts that were critical of the governments. I think that was one part that's overlooked and not appreciated.
Two things can be true at the same time: that Twitter & Nostr have become Nazi bars and that the large US corporate social media platforms (Meta, X, Alphabet, Reddit, etc.) have become constituent parts of the US military-intelligence-industrial complex.
Nostr is ultimately the way forward and he knows it. Nobody controlling your identity other than yourself.
It seem many here are against it.
No shit sherlock
Isn’t this a definition of insanity?
What a useless dipshit.
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