Does anyone else think that Jack Dorsey's post on decentralizing social media made Elon upset? Then, once he found out the post was on Revue, he realized he owned it and shut it down.
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@thomasreggi now that I think about it, is it not an open reference to #fediverse ?
@nosherwan @thomasreggi Jack has been working on a competitor to ActivityPub based fediverse.
But no, I don't think the post made Elon upset. I think Elon shares a lot of Jack's ideas and considers them to be working in the same direction.
@thomasreggi @volkris Jack's ideology is probably not as rotten as Melon Tusk's.
I know Jack has something to do with BlueSky, but I have never heard of Revue.
@nosherwan @volkris Revue was Twitter's competitor to Substack.
@thomasreggi @volkris interesting, must not have been very popular.
Melon could have just de-activated Jack's account why did he shut down the whole service...🤔
@nosherwan @volkris I'd expect Elon to want shut down Revue to cut costs, it was a the failed project, most people didn't even know about it. Plus, I'd assume he wants to consolidate the brand under one roof and embed long-form content directly onto the Twitter platform.
@thomasreggi @volkris I have heard rumors that they are due on their offices rent.
@nosherwan me too 😆 📉
@nosherwan @volkris@qoto.orgI was there during the transition from Jack to Parag. I enjoyed Jack's vision and leadership while he was at the company, and I was disappointed to see him go. Ultimately, I think he didn't steer the ship in the right direction, but it seemed like he was burnt out. I ended up falling into the "Twitter is the town square" narrative. 🤷
@volkris @nosherwan I think from Jack's sentiment it seems that he regrets that Twitter was centralized in the first place. Jack wrote the Revue post in a thread critiquing "the Twitter files" leak from Musk, and literally 17 hours later Musk shuts down the blogging service. It seems like a posturing move from Elon. Twitter will never be decentralized, it doesn't make sense for that to happen from a financial perspective. I'd say they're both ideologically opposed. He even made a joke about it.