I suspect if Musk buys Twitter, we'll all get used to grumbling about him, and Twitter will continue to work more or less, and will gradually improve over time, as basic software development principles, which have evolved over many decades, will get Twitter growing and actually doing new things, which will be appreciated.I said to Jeff Jarvis yesterday that we need a Plan B.A paradox I expect we'll learn a lot more about. On the other hand Musk has shown himself to have a childish personality, I can't imagine people who are serious about doing hard jobs are willing to work for him, but apparently enough are to make SpaceX and Tesla very successful companies.I just don't think Twitter's are that much harder. Amazon can deliver packages to millions of addresses in the US every day. Musk's other companies solve bigger problems adequately. Couldn't an algorithmic approach to moderation work just as well? If we're willing to trust our bodies to an algorithm, why not moderation? I think the problem is solvable. My Tesla car can drive it self, somewhat, with my assistance, guidance and supervision. that the moderation problem on Twitter is insurmountable. Turning it into an identity system and an aggregator of lots of sources of bite-size ideas from all kinds of people. My response - "Let's all go back to what we like, and meet up in the middle." Honestly I think that's what Musk must be thinking of.
Taylor Lorenz suggests we all go back to Tumblr, presumably where she started blogging.We could have been talking about this long ago, and be more independent of Twitter now. Finally there's a lot of discussion about where we'll go, which is good.Benedict Evans described Twitter as the "Craigslist of Web 2.0, coasting on network effects, building nothing much, and getting unbundled piece by piece." I think that's a good synopsis of the last decade or so in TwitterLand.Presumably after looking at their lack of success of getting Twitter to grow like other tech industry social networks. The Twitter board is carefully studying the offer. Based on an article in the WSJ, it appears that might happen very soon, maybe even later today. There's a lot of talk on Twitter today about what to do if Elon Musk ends up owning Twitter.PS: Why Trae Young? He wasn't nice to the Knicks last year.Anyway I now get to relax and enjoy the rest of the playoffs, without any goals, just hoping for some good basketball.But for years when the Knicks aren't in the postseason (which is most of them) why not root for the home team that's in contention? # I feel about the Nets the way Lakers fans probably feel about the Clippers.I want to add, I don't have anything against the Nets, I would probably be interested in them if they stopped trying to form superteams and win at all costs "this year." And if they advised Nets players not to openly dis the Knicks because if they're ever going to get fans for the Nets they're all also going to be Knicks fans.Trae Young was ineffective against Miami and the Hawks were eliminated too.If the NBA playoffs were Christmas, I already got the two presents I wanted, as a diehard Knicks fan.