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Theatrical death panics aside, and even with vanishingly low likelihood of actually irreversible failures, this is a deeply shitty thing to do to people in general. Both employees and users. “charismatic license” can expire A kind of common knowledge moment happening here
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He’s posting memes instead of acknowledging user concerns even if misguided. Treating a significant part of the user base as political hostiles to be laughed at rather than people who’ve invested time into the platform if not money. Like it’s all just a $53b own-the-libs troll.
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Technically and business-wise I think Twitter is quite capable of bouncing back with effective leadership. But I’m now doubting whether under current ownership it deserves to. Do you really want to condone this kind of behavior among the wealthy? Very opposite of noblesse oblige.
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I’ll say the quiet part out loud: It’s been SV dogma for a couple of decades that you have to be an asshole to be a good leader. That even leaders who seem nice in public, if they’re effective, are likely assholes in private. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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It might be time to stop enabling assholery simply because the causal superstition of assholery —> charismatic greatness has been left unchallenged for too long.
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Really, the question isn’t whether mastodon or whatever is an adequate substitute. The question is whether whatever loss of value you experience is worth it simply to stop enabling assholery.
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I’m already naturally posting anything that seems positive-sum and cultural-capital-building elsewhere. I don’t have to piously resist the dopamine loops here to do that. It’s happening naturally. Posting a wholesome joke or interesting article here now seems unnatural.
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What’s left is zero/negative-sum posting and transactional posting. And at some point I’ll stop caring about the former and just post transactionally. Idealistic willpower-based posting behavior is doomed to backslide. Actual reconditioning by distaste might do the truck though.
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