My, perhaps #controversial, #hottake is that I prefer idly browsing #4chan now to #Reddit. For as crude as it is, 4chan is at least human in a way that Reddit just isn't anymore. 4chan is vulgar and crass but vibrant. Reddit is full of people that appear to just #seethe online all day, regardless of their political leanings. Eternally hurling insults from afar for the approval of fellow defeated seethers and bots.
People focused on their own individualism shouldn't get involved in #opensource projects. Why? EGO! When you care more about your credits than the evolution of the project, there's a big problem.
Similarly, when you reject a review or an idea that's better than yours coming from a minority group (e.g., #trans people), being clearly transphobic and taking the discussion of an issue to #4chan, we have a problem. ++
Look I truly don’t care what happens to #twitter now. It’s #4chan at this point. Feel free to stay, but it’s a Nazi clubhouse and you gotta make your peace with that.
But please stop repeating Elon’s DAU/MAU and new user signup numbers as if they’re verified facts. He’s a pathological liar with a vested interest in creating the perception of a healthy and growing platform. Nobody who still works at Twitter is in a position to correct that data and Elon has zero problems lying and letting the government come after him.
Stock traders should be cut off from technology more advanced than clocks and stock tickertape. Genetic cul-de-sacs that can't rationalize human emotions other than FOMO shouldn't have access to this much unregulated dopamine.