[dmix]

I'm also not convinced that Twitter (and it's community/prior management which yes already neutered the API) was some holy thing that needed to be protected and we should all care if it destroys itself. Twitter getting a fire under its ass to become better or die off is not the worst case scenario in my mind.

At least as far as I can tell everyone is still using it with rare exceptions. The people most likely to post alarmist and FUDy stuff also tends to be the people least likely to abandon social media for some higher social/moral purposes.

Once enough time passes and we have enough inside information (and less current day emotion) we'll be able to better analyze these decisions and trends from a macro perspective. Twitter encourages debating things immediately with limited information on overall strategy and actual outcomes/consequences, so ironically I'm also critiquing the very thing Twitter morphed the Zeitgeist into, but oh well.

[bee_rider]

Musk is definitely making Twitter worse. The only hope might actually make it much better by killing it off for good.

[lmm]

The actual regular Twitter experience is better than it's ever been. All the easily-outraged people leaving is a feature not a bug.

[wyclif]

I agree; the haters have politically-motivated brainworms. The actual user experience is a lot better now than when Dorsey was in charge, especially if you live outside of North America.

[renewiltord]

Musk is actually making HN and Reddit worse because people cannot stop talking about him.

At some point, you have to ask yourself if it's worth typing out and posting something that would be ChatGPT's response to "write a Hacker News comment decrying Elon Musk".

As a pretty avid Twitter user, I'm still enjoying it.

[bee_rider]

The article is about another part of the twitter ecosystem shutting down. If talk of twitter’s decline annoys you, maybe there are better places to spend your time?

[renewiltord]

It doesn't take an IQ 3 standard deviations beyond the mean to figure out I was talking about the websites in general

[dmix]

> Musk is definitely making Twitter worse.

In terms of actual content it's a very marginal difference for the vast majority of people I'm sure.

Slightly more people posting angry outraged tweets != twitter content being significantly worse.

The technical failure complaints/predictions will probably find more purchase on HN, despite the feeds being much of the same.

I'm very skeptical Entertainment Tonight style negative PR for Twitter's business ops is what is bad for Twitter as a product for normal day-to-day users. Note: I'm not talking about what's bad for society, if that's what mattered The National Enquirer wouldn't have topped newspaper sales long ago.