Don’t wonder, it’s obvious. When you turn on the light you see the cockroaches. Any transparency changes incentives. Look how the dynamics have changed overnight. Next, Twitter has to do something about the rage engagement payola.
Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.
I mean, if I owned the house, I wouldn't want the lights coming on and the cockroaches being visible. To me the question is less about whether this was a reasoned change, or whether this was an Elon idea, like banning people for posting their Mastadon/bsky handles that'll be rolled back.
I welcome this change. I wonder what the actual resulting impact will be, however.
Don’t wonder, it’s obvious. When you turn on the light you see the cockroaches. Any transparency changes incentives. Look how the dynamics have changed overnight. Next, Twitter has to do something about the rage engagement payola.
Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.
I mean, if I owned the house, I wouldn't want the lights coming on and the cockroaches being visible. To me the question is less about whether this was a reasoned change, or whether this was an Elon idea, like banning people for posting their Mastadon/bsky handles that'll be rolled back.
We get to see this:
https://www.threads.com/@timmy_tostada/post/DRaGc3PDwSh
In six months they'll make hiding your location a feature of the paid subscription.
Well, a hidden location would be a signal too