Are we still entertaining the notion that the man isn’t deliberately destroying Twitter? Because it definitely seems conscious and purposeful, and has for a while now IMO.
2023: the year the internet died
I double dare
u/spezto follow his idol. Do it.I remember reading comments on how the site still fine after firing so many people. “What do they do”.
People fail to understand that large projects have inertia. He could have shuttered all twitter offices, fired all employees, and only paid the server bills, and the website would probably continue to function just fine for a few months.
But as a devops/SRE, this whole saga has been awesome to watch
Feels like elon doesnt even use his own site
Feels like all social media is being strained for a reason and the free flow of information is at the center of it.
Twitter and Reddit actions are also in line with suppression of content farm bots and data scrapers.
The internet and social media landscape is changing forever, and it will keep on doing so! hang on tight :)
Yep! All social media sites can see the bombshell that is LLM’s, and they’re working to try and create their own applications behind the scene, or at the very least monetize their datasets for usage by the likes of OpenAI. There’s a LOT of money in that space right now!
