Also a strong chance he might reinstall jack… I’d put that at 30-50%
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Probably best case outcome actually
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Worst case he tries to run it himself in a spacex way… try to blow up a lot of rockets to learn to launch them well. As in let lots of twitter conflicts blow up. The problem is you can keep people a safe distance from trial and error rocket experiments but not social ones
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Jack wanted to let anybody write their own feed algorithm against the api iirc. That’s really the big potential win here. If I can make (or more likely, select from a marketplace) a feed algorithm to suit me, I kinda don’t give a shit what the free speech crowd does.
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It will also take the wind out of the sails of free speech posturing by creating a meaningful exit option. Right now the best in-platform exit option is protected tweets and that is no good. As it stands only crude mute/block mechanisms exist and they don’t scale.
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For “free speech” I’ve lately started mentally substituting “remove all ddos protection and sibyl resistance.” If you’re an internet-of-beefs knight with enough mooks at your command, you can swamp you’re opponents ability to hold a mute/block perimeter.
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There are asymmetrically more (and more powerful) mechanisms available today to amplify reach than there are ways to tune people out *at scale*. I’d like, for instance a learning algorithm on my side, like a spam filter, that learns from *my* blocks, mutes, and muted words
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And I’d like to share and merge my filters in useful ways with those set up by trusted people.
Unfortunately every bit of user control over filters (“free tuning” perhaps, like “free speech”) erodes advertising potential, or we’d have all this already.
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For the longest time, I foolishly held to a “free speech” standard and almost never used the mute or block buttons on principle. But at some point I realized that was a dumb posture. I now mute at the drop of a hat. Blocks are still very rare for me.
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exactly the same for me: I used to never mute or block on principle, now I mute freely (but still haven't had occasion to block).
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78 blocks (mostly obvious bots/trolls), 178 mutes (mostly harmless but tedious people)
I’d say only 2-3 of my blocks are active fuck-you signals
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oh huh. I mute accounts for being triggering/upsetting (many wonderful people are!), I ~never encounter bots, and my threshold for blocking would be "afraid for my safety" which hasn't happened yet.


