Why I'm still on twitter:
Do you think Elon Musk is a mastermind who knows what he's doing and thus can effectively control Twitter?
I don't. Especially now.
It's not his playground, it's still a battlefield
(and frankly a hell of a lot more interesting than today's Mastodon and its hordes of wannabe-HOAs, come ON y'all get some fight in you)
@jrm4 the problem is that we don't know what Musk's end goal with Twitter is.
You can't judge how effective someone has been unless you know what they're aiming for.
It seems clear that Musk wants serious changes for Twitter, and we see a lot of changes there, but without seeing inside his head and knowing the goal we can't know if the changes are going in his direction.
I don't personally think he's a mastermind, but that's a different issue.
@jrm4 but we can't see into the conference rooms where engineers are making longterm plans or boardrooms where pitches for the future of the platform are being made to secure the financial side.
And we can't see into Musk's head to see what he's picturing for ten years down the road.
Yeah, we can make guesses, but they're only guesses since so much of that is actually invisible to us.
Sure but I don't think that changes my point -- and moreover, I see literally no reason to even believe in the possibility of a "successful master plan" or something.
I feel *very* comfortable presuming that most of these social media companies aren't particularly effective at top-down predictive master planning; they're pretty much just winging it all the time.
@jrm4 well, we can always go to the extreme: so many people think Musk is ruining Twitter, so what if his goal is to ruin Twitter?
What if that was his goal all along?
If people are right AND that was his goal, then it would mean he's experiencing wild success.
Personally, I don't think it's being so ruined, but it is being changed, and since I don't know his objective I can't say whether those changes are working toward that objective or not.
Oh, I think there's a very strong possibility that "ruining Twitter" is his goal.
Making it all the more interesting that, from my POV, he's not doing a particularly good job of it.
Again, my gut is that whatever goal he has doesn't matter much; there appears to be forces at work outside of his power, for now.
@volkris
But, like "what's happening with twitter" isn't INVISIBLE. You can observe and draw conclusions.
And maybe it's not the case for y'all, but I still see tons of good people having good conversations right now, and I know they are human etc.
I see no reason to believe that "someone like me leaving right now" is a better solution than "stick around for now and keep talking about good things."