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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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People really treat these platforms like sports teams.
My giant megacorp owned by a billionaire is better than your giant megacorp owned by a billionaire.
My sports team owned by a giant megacorp is better than your sports team owned by Saudi oil billionaires!
“My Xbox/PlayStation is superior to your Xbox/PlayStation.”
I treat them as sports team insofar as I hope that the stadium catches on fire and collapses on both of them in the middle of the match.
Egging them both onto collapse is the only reasonable perspective
True in society at large, but to be fair, I don't think this post is trying to be "Team Threads" as much as it's trying to point out the consequences of the very different decisions they made. And hopefully in the future, some stupid CEO will think twice when trying to implement shit like Elon Musk did.
I don't believe threads was made in 3 months. I also think the scale of Facebook is insane compared to twitter they have a tech empire and can dump 20b into something and shrug it off when it fails. Facebook also still regularly lays off 1000s of staff including engineers.
Twitter is a platform that's never made profit. I don't think Twitter should have fired 90% of engineers but they definitely needed to lay off some percentage.
We are tribal animals and will do this with just about everything. See also: politics, religion, ancestry, food, computer platforms, smartphone platforms, clothing brands, astrological signs, science fiction franchises, choice of pet, which way the toilet paper goes, etc.
We need to redefine our tribes.