Aaron RuparSo Elon Musk, apparently throwing a fit after Substack announced a Twitter-like "Notes" product earlier this week, has now not only blocked tweets from being embedded in Substack posts but has blocked Substack articles from being shared on Twitter. It's preposterous but also reflective of his broader philosophy for ruini-- I mean running the company, which is hostage-taking and destruction instead of trying to grow the platform by, you know, improving it.
My video tweets alone have done more than 4 billion views over the years. I don't expect Twitter to throw a parade for me, but it would be nice if they would at least just leave progressive creators and journalists alone. Instead, every week seems to bring new opportunities to shit on us and make it increasingly difficult to use the platform to promote our content. It's ridiculous, and I'm going to take today off from providing free content for Elon.
mtsw@atrupar why stay at all? What makes you think things will get better? I think the sooner people admit that it's hopeless over there the sooner we can move on to building whatever's next
SpicewallaI think a lot of people still on twitter are coping with sunk cost bias.
It is viscerally painful to have all the work you've put in over the years be eroded, if not outright destroyed, by a petulant little goblin born with a silver spoon up his ass
The right response is fury, but that also comes with admitting your own impotence and nobody likes to feel powerless. On the upside the fediverse lets people take power for themselves in a way that none of the corporate systems can