His paid platform is making it hard for intellectual elites to stay. No content moderation. (Hate groups love it. And no advertisers want their ads next to Neo nazi trolls). The rate limiting nonsense. Tons of trolls and garbage on the platform. Anyone can pose as anyone for 8 bucks a month. It’s a failed company. Why anyone still works there who has options is madness to me. If you’re stuck on a H1B visa that’s one thing but if you can move and you don’t worship Elon then move.
Threads is backed by a competent run company. Sure Facebook is on the whole likely bad for democracy and the world but it’s paying its bills and has a content moderation arm (how well it works is meh).
I’m on threads, mastodon, Twitter, and post.news. Twitter still seems to be where stuff is happening but it’s slowly falling apart and I’m seeing fewer and fewer new things there.
Threads seems to be where people are going. Having your instagram network is a baller move to bootstrap Threads. And if a quarter of instagram’s users come over it’ll have more users than Twitter and it’s already going to be extremely profitable. Threads is an existential threat to Twitter.
> premium paid platform for the "intellectual elites"
The idea that the blueticks could be described as "intellectual elites"... Well, I very rarely actually literally laugh out loud at this website, but that did it.
That always _kind of_ was Twitter's positioning, bar the 'paid' bit (Twitter blue, well, existed, and that's about all you could say for it), but it's not something that Musk has exactly been encouraging.
The ticks are there to show a high confidence that whatever the content is, has been posted by a real person. I got my tick because I seem to have divergent opinions from a lot of people, and that stupid tick makes them engage with my ideas hopefully for the better instead of rejecting them out of hand by passively disagreeing. It hasn't been all that long and it already changed my mind on something.
That stupid blue tick is important to have people engage in discourse, it's healthy for people to talk instead of vilifing anybody not in your bubble.
To think it represents intellectual elites is a mistake and it's missing the point.
Jotted! Currently, I am focussing on websites that are of some help and could not be blocked completely at work. I think the most important one here is Reddit. As technologists, we need Reddit all the time but then risk falling into a rabbit hole.
That's the whole issue. I know this is the time to milk the cow and I need that money to fund my riskier SaaS startups. But milking the cow is pretty much boring.
Not thinking of selling it anytime soon, there's enough growth in it, if I just keep hiring contractors and increasing clients and price.
