Derek Powazek 🐐
Don't let Dorsey launder his reputation by timidly criticizing the obviously horrendous moron he handpicked to sell Twitter to. Dorsey is responsible for driving Twitter into the ground long before Musk made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/29/elon-musk-twitter-jack-dorsey/
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says Musk wasn’t an ideal leader after all

The former CEO issued his strongest criticism yet of Musk's takeover of the social media site.

The Washington Post
Apr 29, 2023 at 4:47amWeb
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Apr 29, 2023
Everything good about Twitter happened in spite of the series of assholes and sociopaths that ran it, not because of them.
Show threadJW prince of CPHApr 29, 2023
@fraying This goes for all social media 👆 assholes build it to make money, people use it to create value, assholes destroy it to make more money.
Show threadDatalessApr 29, 2023
@jwcph @fraying Cat Valente had a great piece on this. https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start#:~:text=t%20a%20hell-,Stop%20talking%20to%20each%20other%20and%20start%20buying%20things.,useful%20than%20talking%20and%20connecting.
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

I bet you're wondering how we got here...

Welcome to Garbagetown
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Apr 29, 2023
@jwcph it didn’t have to be this way.
Show threadJW prince of CPHApr 29, 2023
@fraying I don't think so either, though I'm not sure we're right... just now talked with a friend who pointed out that maybe that kind of interaction just fundamentally serves to empower & enhance the worst qualities of being human, like, the kind impulses we all have to a varying degree, but which most of us try to manage IRL thanks to the social contract...
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Apr 29, 2023

@jwcph humans make connections. It’s what we do. Even using shitty tools in shitty situations.

It would be a grave mistake, and incredibly inaccurate, to ignore the real relationships and real communities that we have formed in digital places, even when those digital places are run by craven assholes.

Show thread66gardenersMay 3, 2023

@fraying @jwcph

As frustrated as I was with twitter, I continued to see the value of connecting to others in this way as long as one did not cross the line over civil discourse. I had to block literally hundreds of people to maintain that.

Got locked out of my account two days ago. My original email was lost to Verizon years ago. Had updated the email, but two days ago they insisted I use the original email.

Mastodon was the site most like-minded recommended so here I am. So far so good

Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐May 3, 2023
@66gardeners Welcome! I’m glad you’re here.
Show threadBK RyerApr 29, 2023
@jwcph obv.ly some discrepancies between 'value' and 'money', eh? 😉
Show threadOutOnTheMoorsApr 29, 2023
@fraying Williams and Costolo were slightly better, but they ended up effectively being useful idiots who were dumped whenever they'd served their purpose.
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Apr 29, 2023
@CrazyMyra Costolo was a wannabe comedian who had no business running a social site and Williams, well, I worked for him at Blogger and try not to speak ill of former bosses so I won’t say anything more.
Show threadJan Lehnardt Apr 29, 2023
@fraying “terrible choices were made” say people who made the choices full knowing how terrible they are and now use passive voice to deflect consequences.
Show threadCitizencatApr 29, 2023
@fraying
Is this damage control because of Dorseys connection to #bluesky ?
Show threadNikhil ShahApr 29, 2023
@fraying Yeah he is just trying to advertise his new product.
Show threadamartya00Apr 29, 2023
@fraying having met Jack in person, he is as smart as a can of soup. If he put as much effort into running Twitter as he did looking like a douche, this day would not have come.
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐Apr 29, 2023
@amartya00 Can confirm.