I think most people focus on bringing back far-right people to the platform, making the application inaccessible to logged out users and the failed attempts at Twitter Premium or whatever it's being called.
for me it’s the vocal Twitter users who say with a straight face that it’s the “town square” and who talk about “the global conversation” and just won’t accept that only a vast minority of their town or globe actually post on it or participate in the way they’re suggesting.
the whole platform — users and owners — are just incredibly full of themselves in an _annoying_ way.
i remember i think back when jack dorsey stepped down and parag agrawal was slated to be the next ceo all of HN was doing nothing but talking about how the only viable path for twitter was to put the entire thing behind a subscription because there was too much garbage.
now that elon is actually instating a paywall (that isn’t compulsory, and still lets you use it for free) all of HN seems to be thinking it’s the wrong decision.
i’d understand if something substantially happened in the intervening time period to give you the impression the subscription model was NOT the way to go, but nothing of the sorts has actually happened at all.
while it’s better than most sites, the groupthink on HN is insane.
also - i might be wrong if dorsey stepping down was the time when everyone was saying this, but i do remember it very clearly, and i only joined in 2020.
I really dislike this argument, it sounds so balanced but it’s disingenuous. Twitter has (had) rules. Nothing to do with political slant. It’s just there are extremes on the right that seem to cross those rules. Correlation is not causation.
the whole platform — users and owners — are just incredibly full of themselves in an _annoying_ way.