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Why do people oppose Twitter? It's a social network, you can choose not to use it.

>>justin+(OP)
Putting the personality of the owner aside, they have been running an experiment for the last few months on how to operate a tech company, overworking your engineers and treating them like replaceable automata. Do you want them to succeed and set that as an example for others to follow?

>>justin+(OP)
I've got a rule of thumb, if a communication network is so large that governments who control nuclear arms use it to communicate "just ignore it" doesn't really work

>>justin+(OP)
Personally, not just twitter, all social media I’m happy to see it dies, and no, “stop using it” mindset isn’t an argument when it severely affects the majority of the people around you, and start not just influencing the populace opinions but shaping the next generation. Who ever controls that narrative in the media get to decide what’s the next laws to be considered, after all, that’s how democracy works.

>>agonz2+r2
Yep. And it's hard to separate the personality of the owner from this—the more successful Musk is, the more that he's seen as the next Steve Jobs, the higher my odds of ending up working for a Musk wannabe. He is not a good leader, and the sooner his leadership style blows up in his face the better for all of us.

>>justin+(OP)
Some people signed up for Twitter, years ago, specifically to avoid other people using their name. I think it was a thread on HN.

Once you are signed up, it's tempting to use it. Then you realize it's a bad idea to use it, but it takes self-control.

Now, with the current leadership, who knows if they will purge inactive accounts and/or reissue IDs.

I don't know if this scenario accounts for much of the antagonism, but it is one possibility. It is possible that some people don't like it, but can't let go of it completely, and the new management creates uncertainty and doubt that never ends.

>>agonz2+r2
Every social network and large tech company has awful people running it? And I'm yet to see anything beyond "an anonymous source" on this apparent overworking.

If you work for a large US tech company, you are replacable automata. How do people not know this? Am I the crazy one here?

>>TheHap+Io
Don't you know anyone who used to work there? I've worked for a large US tech company, and no, it was not the same.

>>justin+(OP)
That social network shut prominet scientists voice during the COVID that's why many people like me hate it

>>AHOHA+L7
Twitter is basically smoking. You don't have to use it to be affected, you just have to be downwind.

It was easier to ignore this when they had a more benevolent dictator.

>>TheHap+Io
Every CEO of the top tech companies would be fired for the kind of controversy Musk has monthly.

Musk gets away with it because he's the owner but most social media and tech companies aren't led by this awful people.