Fascinating to watch the internet get worse and worse in real time. It seems enshitification is inevitable for any big and centralized website
We’re just swinging back towards decentralization, in 10 years we’ll be going the other way again.
That’s funny, my decision to quit Reddit and delete my accounts there was inspired by my decision to quit Twitter and delete that account.
Imagine cribbing notes from a guy that has seen the social network he purchased drop in value by 2/3rds.
Yeah, I still can’t figure out what sort of mentality makes that seem like a good idea.
For Musk there’s at least a chance of some sort of thought process going on there. Narcissistic people tend to think that everyone else is just like them (although maybe a lesser version of themselves.) Musk has had a very serious addiction to Twitter for a long time, therefore everyone has a very serious addiction to Twitter, therefore we can charge people a ton of money for their Twitter and since they can’t leave they’ll have to pay for it. And legal repercussions? Why, he’s never seen those in his life!
Maybe spez is the same, just with a bunch of alt accounts so that he can post in /r/jailbait or whatever. I can see why he might want to turn reddit into 9gag if that’s all he’s ever used it for himself and isn’t capable of understanding the concept of other people having different uses for it.
But at some point he must notice that it’s not been going well? Right?
the Twitter subreddit has been constantly full of people complaining about the changes to Twitter for the last few months lol. i can’t imagine having access to that and thinking that copying Twitter is a good idea or something that would be popular
Even I dislike Elon Musk now, used to be a big fan, was difficult for me to come to terms with.
I also used to be a big fan of musket until i realized what his beliefs were
Musk has just ridden on the coattails of others genius and then taken credit for it. His behavior over the past couple of years is borderline moronic.
Sadly i didn’t know that back then
This is pretty much confirmation that the API change is just the beginning. I give it two months until users have to pay to become mods.
Whale whale whale
When would tech companies realize that layoffs NEVER increase efficiency? The amount of work getting done is directly proportional to the amount of people at a company, because if a company can increase its work efficiency during normal operations it would have done so already.
That’s not at all my experience of 25 years in Tech both in that industry (Products, Services and even Startups) and others (mainly Finance).
More people (or more time - i.e. overworking) most definitelly do not mean more results and in some case can even mean less results.
If seen departments 3x as large producing less than half the results, and way more so when talking about small teams (in my area 4 senior devs familiar with each other can outproduce a whole department of mid/junior-level devs).
Curiously Tech Startups were especially inneficient, probably because they tended to hire young and enthusiastic people (“With a tendency to run really hard whilst not knowing were they’re trying to get to”) and don’t really have much in the way of software development processes whilst well established (but comparativelly boring) companies hired the kind of people in their 30s or more with families who want a good steady salary, and had well established team structures.
But don’t take my word for it, just read books like “The Mythical Man Hour”.
I think you misunderstood me. My point was if your company/project was already running incredibly inefficiently, cutting more people would not make the remaining people more efficient somehow out of fear, because what caused the inefficiency is still there, you just have more things for each of them to do now.
The way to increase efficiency is to figure out what part of the whole process is causing waste and aim to minimize that, but that is HARD because it requires understanding your process, which is why they just do the lazy thing and fire a bunch of people to appease the almighty shareholders, so that they can say they did something.
The amount of work getting done is directly proportional to the amount of people at a company
This is absolutely not true.
This is one of the most well known writings on software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Besides, its not just about efficiency, but about scope and use of resources. In economic boom cycles there is more capital to play around with non-essential ideas. When that access to capital dries up, so does viability of keeping extra resources for things that are not essential.
Again, we are talking about how cutting people during regular operation absolutely would not make the team more efficient, not adding people to a project last minute.
Late projects is just a theme used to convey the core ideas, as it is a common thinking/pitfall, but the reasoning of why late projects because later equally apply to initial software estimates.
The core idea is that software cannot be simple divided into “man months”. That is, saying this software will take 80 manhours, and therefore 10 engineers can do it in 10 days, and a 80 engineers could do it in a day. The reasoning being 1. Software tasks are complex and not easily partitioned, and 2. Software projects require a lot of communication and the more people you have the communication channels needed greatly increase. Essentially what happens is when you have too many people, more time is spent communicating what needs to be done and whose going to do it than doing the actual work.
In any case, efficiency is not really relevant because what happens in layoffs typically, is that entire teams/projects/or initiatives are dismantled. So its not about serving the same projects with less people, but reprioritizing whats essential.
Elon: running a successful company to the ground.
u/spez: Taking notes.
Here’s a Nitter link for those who don’t like giving Twitter clicks:
CEOs are psychopaths, especially tech CEOs. they’re all either publicly or privately glad elon took the PR hit of being the first to cut off 3PAs and make the site fucking garbage
Sociopaths. But yes I otherwise agree with you.
They’re both extremely similar words so it’s no surprise people get them mixed up, like psychologist vs psychiatrist. However I don’t see a sociopath ever becoming the CEO of a successful (at any point) company.
I don’t even know that spez is a psychopath, but he’s absolutely panicking and in way over his head.
Small nitpick, but psychopaths do not lack empathy. In fact, they have a high level of empathy. It’s how they can exploit and manipulate others so well. They would not be so successful if they were not aware of other people’s insecurities, and how to manipulate those insecurities to their advantage.
From my understanding, they have a sense of cold empathy where they can very easily identify the feelings that someone is feeling in order to manipulate them, but they do not actually feel those feelings themselves, so they aren’t actually empathizing. They don’t feel sad when they see someone crying, but they can certainly understand they’re sad and they know how they should react to it.
I mean that describes me but I don’t try to manipulate people.
Any chance you’re on the spectrum? We tend to feel it differently. Actually there’s like 5 major disorders that could be described the same way.
Also some psychopaths don’t make it a game to manipulate people, and can come off as basically normal people. https://youtu.be/u2V0vOFexY4
There’s definitely a good chance people would consider me on the spectrum. I learned how to be sociable though and I feel pretty normal for the most part.
I dont agree with analysing human behavior under such a lens though and I think psychology will completely reconsider its approach in the next 50-100 years as it has in the past.
