[hooande]

every suggestion he's floated so far is bad. edit button, open source algorithm, "time outs" instead of bans, "free speech". all of these ideas have obvious flaws that he does not address and none of them would be sufficient to drastically change twitter's stagnant share price.

If Musk, or anyone, has solutions to the problems with freedom of speech that have existed since civilization, let's hear them. If the ideas are good and he's the best person to implement them, then there's a good chance that people will want to do it.

[kyleplum]

He did mention changing the monetization scheme used by twitter from being ad-based to being subscription based. I've heard this idea floated around for awhile and my favourite version is something along the lines of requiring a monthly payment once you reach a specific size of followers/audience. The idea being that today, twitter is being used by corporations/individuals as essentially free marketing.

Although not guaranteed to solve the issue of "free speech", I would be interested to see the results of a social media service that is not designed to maximize engagement to drive the most ad dollars.

[mountainriver]

yup me too, my biggest complaint with twitter is all the ads, oh and jerks

[KennyBlanken]

I love how he's all for open-sourcing the algorithms for twitter because of supposed harm...but not for the algorithms causing his cars to steer toward telephone poles and cyclists

[moralestapia]

>open source algorithm

Huh? What's wrong about this?

[hooande]

people will immediately reverse engineer it to find what criteria give tweets the most engagement. if it's something like "joke tweet at 7 am" then millions of people will do whatever that is. Not to mention it will open it up to spammers, scammers and software hackers.

There may be common sense solutions to mitigate those problems. but I haven't heard them from Musk