I know we all hate on Space Karen, but Jack is probably the second worst person on the site because like Elon, he's built up a pseudointellectual mystique and people legitimately think he's a Smart and Interesting Person. He's not. He's a mediocre rich guy who thinks walking an hour every day and meditating in silence makes him better than you.

It makes me tired, how much navel gazing went on at Twitter about how to moderate and who to moderate. Most of it seemed to stem from Jack wanting to be philosophical about shit he didn't need to get that deep about, and then it got inherited down the line by a bunch of business types.

Harassment is harassment is harassment and if people are having mental breaks when they use their site, something is deeply wrong with the protocol. You fucking fix it.

And on that note, I'm signing off for a few days. Social engineering is hard, but with as much talent and wealth as Twitter had -- well, it's sad to see what it's become.

@onalark The fediverse is better (serious UX issues aside) and I think that a Wikipedia-like model would be best, but I suspect that he did the best he could under the circumstances. I’m not sure, only suspect.

Also, can we leave the mediation retreats out of it? They’re really helpful and I think we need more of that, not less. Just because a rich guy goes to one doesn’t make them evil.