#Twitter - This isn't any kind of seriously thought out thing, just some ideas that have been floating in my mind.
I think it was a few days before #ElonMusk carried the sink into the office... I saw one of his fanboys asking why he was even going to make changes to Twitter. Why not buy it, shut it down, and replace it with something he built because they were sure he could do better in less time?
And his reply had something to do with how Twitter would cut years - I want to say he said it would be something like 10 years - off of plans for "X", which is supposed to be some kind of all-in-one social media platform.
The guy asking was kind of like (paraphrasing), "I don't think it would cut THAT many years off, but you know what you're doing better than I do."
And then you look at how Jack says he only really trusts Musk to save things there.
And there's all that stuff about Jack kind of guiding Musk through the whole thing, and Jack still having a good chunk of his shares...
And Jack is supposed to be working on Blue Sky, a supposedly all-in-one social media platform.
Part of me wonders if maybe Musk isn't supposed to destroy Twitter. Like, maybe Blue Sky wouldn't really have any chance as long as Twitter is what it has been.
@weirdfizz I’m thinking that too. The destruction is by design. Musk is giddy about it. The new security risks to users of the bird app as of last night are concerning too.
@peeppeepcircus I'm not really surprised by what he's doing, but just by how fast and loudly. I thought he'd do it slowly and quietly so most people wouldn't even notice. I mean, that's what I'd do if I wanted to make those changes while keeping everybody believing it's all good.
@weirdfizz We’re decompressing. Give us a beat.
@weirdfizz I have no idea, but it seems to me anybody would have to be crazy to join up any venture run by either Jack or Elon. Neither has any credibility left.
@weirdfizz collusion strangely seems likely, although you'd think those "geniuses" would realize how obvious it'd look
@celticsfanaticentomologist I do kind of wonder how much of it is just that I want to see a pattern, even if it's one I don't like, because that makes it make sense. But that still means enough things line up, and that's weird on its own.
@weirdfizz It works differently. BlueSky is decentralized so that you can port your data without losing control of it into whatever social media platform you choose. I am on a waitlist to beta test it.
I don't know how it's supposed to work, or anything. But maybe just not enough people would be willing to leave Jack's old thing for Jack's new thing. But maybe if you destroy the old thing, send people scattering, and then promise them they can all be brought back together by the new thing?
I don't know. Like I said, I haven't seriously thought it out. I don't know enough to be able to.