It is extraordinarily, spectacularly funny that Jack Dorsey literally called us “common,” as if he’s the Third Lord Viscount Fartleby sneering at the help while cheating at a game of croquet
Dorsey apparently wanted all the legacy bluecheck celebrities and journalists to come over here and for the rest of the rabble to just like and retweet them, and that favoritism was why twitter sucked pre-Elon.
I thought the biggest mistake Twitter made as a company was tossing out a moderation and ad team that got them clickthrough rates as high as 100x times industry average (and the ad rates to match!) at the behest of a guy named after the contents of a litter box
Before you know if the plebes be asking for hygiene … like racism and White Supremacy are merely social constructs that can be ameliorated by deplatforming
I mean … who are these “users” to define and enforce the boundaries of what is and is not politically, socially and culturally acceptable
"Silence, Faine!" roared Jack, turning to his friend. "Who is this insolent wretch, Lord Musk?"
"Looking into it," mumbled Elon, hidden behind towering stacks of POs and service orders from Tesla dealerships.
Jack's pretty mad that we'd bully him right off of here if he showed his dumb smug libertarian face. Fucker looks like late in life Steve Jobs with a shitty goatee
Jack gets it
Sing along with the common people
Sing along and it might just get you through
Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they're really laughing at Jack
And the stupid things that Jack do
Becoming a billionaire is the worst possible thing that can happen to your brain.
If he wants a social media network for rich people, he is more than capable of making one.
these peasants keep begging me to do something about the beasts lurking in the haunted forest next to the village & it's like, goddamn, can a man just go Gilles de Rais mode up in his castle w/o having to deal with your bullshit for ONE DAY
We all knew he thought we were beneath him. Dude was happier (I mean, if you can call it that) hanging with the nostr crypto-fash, and openly hated it here.
Good to know what the douche really thinks of us, though. He can go and fuck off, and play with his Nazi buddies on Twitter, now.
"they started asking for moderation tools" "this is literally repeating the mistakes we made at the last company"
Is he upset about MODERATION??
These websites/apps are literally unusable without moderation tools
It’s wild because the only criteria where he could call the lot of us common is from a wealth or attachment to material reality. Even “will they threaten Nazis with a hammer” doesn’t work.
It's telling
Tech bro libertarianism is just neo feudalism
They want to pretend it's "meritocratic", but in the end they are all about capital owning everything, and having a kind of aristocracy
They all love phrenology for a reason
Oh FFS if you don't have moderation you get insane people going off nonstop and being irl frightening. And trolls whose entire conversation is, eat a dick! No, you eat a dick! You eat TWO dicks!!
Etc. ☠️
“You will never understand How it feels to live your life With no meaning or control And with nowhere left to go You are amazed that they exist And they burn so bright Whilst you can only wonder why” youtu.be/1_fCELuMsAs?...
“…a very, very common crowd…”
That neoreactionary shitheel should just go all out and call us serfs; he and his ilk want to rule over us like feudal days anyway.
If humans could be counted on to just “be nice to each other” perhaps there wouldn’t be bans, blocks or mutes.
But also in that same theoretical paradise there wouldn’t be wars, genocides or crimes.
also p funny that jack’s the one who made the all-time historic bad business move of selling the company he built to a mono-braincelled nazi dipshit, something 100% of the very, very, common peasantry on here could have told him not to do.
He's complaining about moderation tools.. those things that are required in order for any social media company to actually function, because sometimes, you've just got to stop someone trying to take a dump on your kitchen table
Still ticks me off that Elon has given Bluesky multiple open goals to capitalise on to grow the userbase and Bluesky's response always amounted to "Nah, we're good thanks".
I want to go to a dinner party he’s hosting and yell insults at him. He can’t tell me to shut up or kick me out cuz he’s against that!
Also, imma stuff my pockets with the most expensive food and give it to my dog later.
Most who registered interest before Bluesky actually existed were either professionally internet/comms curious or saw the way Twitter was going & were preparing lifeboats. Big ‘just asking questions’ accounts, upon which the openly hateful live, wouldn’t want to start from scratch: bad for business!
Oh. We’re back to the “free speech without consequences” discussion. Jack does know that this have NEVER been, right? This didn’t just show up when “other” started having the ability to make their voices heard. Or maybe he doesn’t.
Right? He allowed what happened to Twitter, he ought to pipe down. It was wonderful in the beginning. And being in SoCal, it was superb to go on for earthquake Tweets.
Jack *wishes* he sounded like an aristocrat.
Using "common" as an insult makes him sound like a snobbish and old-fashioned member of the British middle class. He's a 1950s housewife, fretting that her kids are playing with the grubbier kids from down the road. 😀
This quote seems very much as if he means "the people were very similar to each other" rather than "the people were peasants".
With no desire for more Jack I haven't read the full interview for context, but his obsession with platforming detestable viewpoints aligns pretty well with that, too.
I'm pretty sure he saw the legendary Alf hog, got a little turned on, had an existential crisis, and decided he had to be a dickhead billionaire about it.
He either has not groked the ATproto code or is trying to position Block to handle Twitter’s new micropayments feature by sacrificing Bluesky now that he thinks nostr is viable. This only makes sense when you understand how singularly focused he is on Bitcoin adoption.
this is a perfect little encapsulation of what jack never got about running even a modestly large online platform. nobody came hard for jack because they knew, implicitly, he was a god king of twitter. if they did, i bet he nuked them. but protecting "little people"? not for him