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Everyone's job should be to eat shit when they fuck up. That was the basic human contract up until about ten years ago.

Right! You are here to make your customers lives better, not prank on them. Even George Clooney keeps his shit to his friends.

there was *plenty* of goodwill until they pissed it away with bad choice after bad choice after bad choice!

have... they?

you're not doing that because you don't think that morality requires you to have an allergic response to seeing the name "Jesse Singal"

You can get away with a lot more stuff if the community believes you care about them. The problem isn't Jay's tone, the problem is that the community does not believe that she cares about us.

and 'eat shit' here really just means coping with feeling bad about something without lashing out in anger a lot of people have figured that out it's not that hard

the bluesky team joked about how trans women talking about singal was the only thing that made him relevant, he was since cited in antitrans legislation multiple times and got published in international media. you are dumb as fuck.

You dont even have to be a CEO of a huge platform. Being an admin or mod on a medium large forum (10k+) in the early 2000s would have been the same thing. You dont get to push boundaries if you are the one setting them.

Twitter circa 2021~22 was peak. There were so many layers of bureaucracy and redundancy and no one was identifiable as a primary actor behind any decision. At a certain point no human can function under that much scrutiny

Or just get an additional anonymous account

Until it gets outed as Elon's blatantly obvious burner.

Go console yourself with that bloated CEO package you got.

They signed up for the job fully informed, because we have all known it for well over a decade. It's not a surprise so just do the work you signed up for.

a lot of people get paid a lot less to eat bees

Oh another thing leadership probably shouldnt do is like posts saying Bluesky doesn’t owe its users anything!

The bartender can't be the one also doing shots!

Of course, the incentives of social media weigh heavily against that - he'd have to give up his gazillion followers and rebuild a network the slow way.

Don’t say anything on your alt that you wouldn’t want to see on the front of the NYT/Washington Post/Wired/Fast/Company/industry specific news outlet, but sure. Like, Mitt Romney’s alt, forgot everything about it other than the fact that it happened, so that, even if you’re more interesting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjzq...

To quote the ceo of reddit from several years ago, "popcorn tastes good"

this really is the root of the entire issue.

oh, biskey is dying again? who'd they not-ban this time?

"What do you mean I have to be a leader of the people that I cultivate my following around? I just want a lot of money!!"

anything a CEO does is punching down, including nothing, although "nothing" is usually the last harmful choice

Yes! For sure have fun if you can do it while still engaging in an intellectually honest way and taking your lumps as appropriate

I think it’s part that and part how terrible moderation was here in the days after the incident in Utah a few weeks ago which was the first time a lot of people had seen a very deliberate self interested thumb on the scale from moderation here

I get that they have more ambitious goals than a centralized social network but that's what they have right now.

From an old friend to n finance “professional CEOs are professional actors. They have to embody the corporation 24/7. That’s the gig. We do keep a different classification for founder CEOs, because they didn’t understand the gig when they started. But that only goes so far.”

Appreciate it :)

@bsky.app I meant to say 'can't unsee' so now I'm tagging you to ask for an edit button anyway.

That's the whole thing here, right? You aren't a poster who incidentally attracted a humorless response from a passerby (aka a waffles interaction), you are a CEO who a user sees and thinks, "Hey while I have you, and I don't think I'll get another chance, there's an issue with your service."

Yeah. Jay's starting to give me some serious flashbacks to the "constantly being bullied" rant from the other twitter's owner

Running a platform isn’t fun when millions depend on you. Responsibility often collides with chaos—just like lithium quietly reshaping global power behind the scenes glassalmanac.com/a-rare-earth... Who really holds the leverage?

It’s not fun! It’s a trade off, being an adult is all about trade offs and not joking about waffles or whatever

Here's another example of the same principle: Don't go into officiating if you love the competition aspect of the sport. You can't talk with your friends about it. You can't hold any public opinions about anyone or any decisions that are made. … and you eat shit on all decisions you make.

"won't somebody think of the rich and powerful"

💯💯💯

Yessss! I'm so tired of Perpetual Sarcasm being their native language. It's deeply unserious in an unhelpful way!

I’m reminded of Paul Ford’s line that “irony doesn’t scale” - when you have a big microphone, you have to be boring/straightforward in your communication

she should make an anonymous account to have fun on

this was how Something Awful worked, and it very much did not work

I think the problem is they know their only likable quality is being in a position of power, its not good posting that they get the engagement dopamine from.

lol why didn’t I ever do that

Because if you make a mouse an alt, he'll use it to praise his main for being such a great father or something

We DON'T need an Elon Musk on the left.