Whoa, he has some ability to realize what he has taken part in creating.

“The days of Usenet, IRC, the web… even email (with PGP)… were amazing,” Dorsey said on Saturday in a tweet spotted by Mashable. “Centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I’m partially to blame, and regret it.”

  • beansniffer
    15·
    3 years ago

    I realize I’m partially to blame, and regret it.

    Then open source the code behind twitter, remove barriers to decentralization, encourage self hosting of twitter instances by making it easy for even normies to achieve. Twitter has the funds and ability to achieve this. Put up or shut the fuck up, Jack.

    • electrodynamica@mander.xyz
      7·
      3 years ago

      It’s just like all the capitalists virtue signaling about Basic Income when literally no one would work for their shit companies if there was a basic income.

      • beansniffer
        5·
        3 years ago

        Wouldn’t UBI improve working conditions because companies that had bad working conditions would find themselves unable to attract workers and thus go bankrupt because they couldn’t make money because they didn’t have any workers? I can’t tell if your comment is for or against basic income.

        • electrodynamica@mander.xyz
          5·
          3 years ago

          It absolutely would improve working conditions, competition, and innovation. Right now everything is up to the whims of the capitalists and so there is no free market.

          My point is these oligarchs like to pretend they are for basic income when basic income would completely obviate their shit business models and wipe them out.

          The whole thing with Twitter and fediverse is the same. He can pretend he is for fediverse all he wants but Twitter would have no reason to exist at that point.

    • Whom
      4·
      3 years ago

      Didn’t he leave Twitter a while back?

        • Whom
          3·
          3 years ago

          It’s certainly possible that that was the order of things, but given that Twitter started out somewhat more idealistic and open, I wouldn’t be surprised if as soon as the financial ties and responsibilities toward Twitter fell away, he had a chance to look around at the state of the internet and feel genuine remorse.

          Fuck him regardless, but I don’t think he necessarily planned it to be this way. It’s reasonably likely that we’re watching a monster finally start to process how much harm they’ve caused the world.