It was the Easter weekend, and fortunately, the Elon Musk-Twitter saga took a break.
However we lastly received to listen to one thing about current developments from Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, ex-CEO, and outgoing board member, who weighed in on the difficulty with some non-direct tweets.
A few of them have been directed towards the corporate’s board, and the way it has operated over time, and a few of them talked in regards to the potential decentralization of social media.
Whereas the Bitcoin evangelist doesn’t totally agree with Musk on how Twitter needs to be operated, there’s some similarity of their imaginative and prescient. Let’s see how their visions evaluate.
Musk and Dorsey each hate the Twitter board
In the previous couple of weeks, Musk has been very vocal about Twitter’s shortcomings as a platform. He almost joined the corporate’s board, however determined in opposition to it inside days.
His justification was that the corporate needs to be taken non-public with a purpose to “undergo the adjustments that should be made.” So a board seat wasn’t sufficient for him make an impression on Twitter’s roadmap.
Over the weekend, Musk responded to a tweet that listed Twitter’s board members and their proportion possession within the firm. He mentioned that when Dorsey departs, the board owns a negligent quantity of shares, so their financial visions may not profit the social community or shareholders.
Wow, with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns virtually no shares! Objectively, their financial pursuits are merely not aligned with shareholders.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2022
Dorsey had a much less direct criticism of the corporate’s board. He positively responded to a tweet that had a quote about unhealthy boards killing corporations. In the identical thread, he indicated with one other tweet that Twitter’s board has been continuously a dysfunction of the agency for years.
huge information
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 17, 2022
it’s constantly been the dysfunction of the corporate
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 17, 2022
no
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 17, 2022
Notably, the Twitter co-founder was fired from the CEO submit again in 2008. He returned in 2015, and loved an extended tenure. When he give up as CEO final yr, reviews speculated that former board member Elliott Administration had a major hand to play on this transfer.
Perhaps we’ll see Dorsey open up extra in regards to the Twitter board as soon as he’s formally retired from it.
Opening Twitter’s algorithm
Final week, talking at TED 2022, Musk mentioned he wants to make Twitter open-source, and put the code on Github, so there’s extra transparency about what motion the corporate takes on them.
This doesn’t actually remedy any issues with moderation or hate speech, as Twitter follows totally different guidelines in varied nations and conditions. As people making moderation-based choices have a contextual understanding, it’s onerous for an algorithm to guage these complicated situations.
Dorsey agreed with a few of Musk’s criticism of Twitter (and social media), however he had a barely totally different take than simply internet hosting the code on Github.
Earlier this month, he admitted that he has performed a component within the centralization of the web.
the times of usenet, irc, the net…even e-mail (w PGP)…have been superb. centralizing discovery and identification into firms actually broken the web.
I notice I am partially responsible, and remorse it.
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 2, 2022
Over the previous couple of years, the Sq. (now Block) co-founder has been a giant proponent of decentralizing social media and giving customers decisions by way of content material discovery algorithms.
When he was Twitter CEO, he introduced a brand new enterprise referred to as Bluesky in 2019.
Twitter is funding a small unbiased workforce of as much as 5 open supply architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized normal for social media. The objective is for Twitter to in the end be a consumer of this normal. 🧵
— jack⚡️ (@jack) December 11, 2019
The challenge, now an unbiased entity funded by the social community, goals to construct a decentralized and open protocol for social media that may remedy issues like centralized enforcement of content material takedown coverage to selling content material that sparks controversy.
Over the weekend, he responded to a tweet that identified a submit encouraging Twitter to open up its algorithm, indicating that he’s been wanting to try this. He additionally argued that it’s the one massive social media service that has allowed folks to show off the algorithm, referring to the characteristic that allows you to swap to a reverse-chronological timeline.
yep
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 15, 2022
Dorsey opined about eradicating folks from social media platforms too. He acknowledged that everlasting bans are a failure for a social media firm, even when they’re the fitting choices at the moment. Dorsey identified that decentralized protocols may convey amicable options to deplatforming.
as I mentioned in a thread on the occasion, I consider all everlasting bans are a failure of the corporate. However doubtless proper determination for the the corporate. Fallacious for expertise underlying the service. Therefore @bluesky
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 16, 2022
In one other tweet, he supported Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s view that rich people shouldn’t personal social media or media companies.
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— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 16, 2022
I’m don’t consider any particular person or establishments ought to personal social media, or extra usually media corporations. It needs to be an open and verifiable protocol. The whole lot is a step towards that.
— jack⚡️ (@jack) April 16, 2022
Dorsey, nonetheless on the Twitter board, is already immediate in criticizing the corporate’s present path. He may not agree with Elon’s absolute imaginative and prescient for Twitter, however his tweets indicated that he’s not considering in an other way.
Each of those tech personalities joined fingers final yr in criticizing Web3’s imaginative and prescient. I hope we each of them get collectively over a reside dialogue about Twitter on Twitter Areas. Make it occur universe.
