Generally, with entire Twitter saga and the leadership in particular I subscribe to the "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" / Occam's Razor guess of "someone messed up, forgot, or was fired / left the company", but... Yeah. It's hard not to wonder sometimes. The incentive structures are not exactly set up for them to be honest protectors of free speech anywhere. It's a lot easier to get subsidies and friendly regulations when you're willing to silence/find the government's political opponents for them
Have you written yet about (I think you mentioned) why you think decentralized social networks won't succeed / supplant centralized / corporate social networks?
Not yet! More research/thinking to do, and I'd love to look at BlueSky to see if they're doing something novel. And tbf it's less that I think they *won't*, just that the *chances* of them being successful at the major goals (including content moderation) long-term are lower
The current leadership also has more interests in being more gov friendly than not. Elon’s non-twitter properties depend on it.
Generally, with entire Twitter saga and the leadership in particular I subscribe to the "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" / Occam's Razor guess of "someone messed up, forgot, or was fired / left the company", but... Yeah. It's hard not to wonder sometimes. The incentive structures are not exactly set up for them to be honest protectors of free speech anywhere. It's a lot easier to get subsidies and friendly regulations when you're willing to silence/find the government's political opponents for them
Have you written yet about (I think you mentioned) why you think decentralized social networks won't succeed / supplant centralized / corporate social networks?
Not yet! More research/thinking to do, and I'd love to look at BlueSky to see if they're doing something novel. And tbf it's less that I think they *won't*, just that the *chances* of them being successful at the major goals (including content moderation) long-term are lower