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Discussion on: Why You Should Care About Sneaky Elon Buying Twitter Out

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Jay Jeckel

Everything you list sounds good to me.

  1. One algorithm or a thousand algorithms, corporate tech stacks being open source or at least public source is a good thing. If a company can't compete unless their tech stack is hidden, then, oh well, guess they don't add enough actual value as a company to justify being in business.

  2. The less bots the better. If bot makers don't like the changes, then they can go make their own software that doesn't require someone else's system to operate. No website, system, or developer has any responsibility to bot makers, especially since so many bots are detrimental to whatever system they are attached to.

  3. The less ads the better. The ad-based revenue model is outdated and long past the point where it should have died. Any business still clinging to that model is doing a disservice to themselves and the internet community as a whole. This goes doubly so for those that use things like sponsored tweets and sponsored search results and any other sponsored thing that basically equates to buying your way to the front of a line instead of earning your spot.

Your points all seem to revolve around the idea that twitter owes something to the parasitic industries that have grown up around it. They don't. Their only responsibility is to themselves, their users, and the good of the internet as a whole. These changes would well serve all three.