Or maybe he's playing 5D chess and this was the plan all along.
Actually, there are probably cheaper ways he could have made the Fediverse a viable competitor to Twitter, even if he somehow manages to later sell Twitter for 90% of what he paid for it.
Twitter is terrible. I'm starting a foundation to make Mastodon scale to interplanetary levels, and I'm putting in 420 million dollars to start, and I plan on giving additional grants of 69 million dollars every year it hits some marks, for up to ten years.
That would have cost him a single billion over ten years and have a very good chance of wiping out Twitter.
It wouldn't have worked. What the people quitting twitter want is a "safe-space" for whatever ideology they believe in. As long as these people controlled the platform, why would they go anywhere else?
These people don't care about decentralization, only controlling the message and prevent opposing ideas to foster on their platform, nothing more.
They'll go create yet another centralized social media that is not Twitter only by name.
I agree with you, but the question was "Could Musk have done something more effective with his money?" and I came up with an answer.
I think Musk has fallen into the Evil Overlord list, and has failed to run his plans past a five year old child. Watch for him to try to eat an energy field bigger than his head soon...
1. Your comment is claiming that my comment is overgeneralized? It is not.
2. I will grant my reply may be uninteresting to you. Unfortunately it did seem to push one of your buttons, which may suggest that there's something in it worthy of examination. Whatever I see someone reply so strongly to criticism in meetings or mediations it tells me more about the person than the critique.
3. My comment is not a rant. It was far too brief for that.
4. My comment was not speculation. (I am quite sure the words reflect my assessments of your comment.)
Therefore, saying "ditto" doesn't make sense. I think in your mind you thought "ditto" because you perceived my comment as an attack and you wanted to reply in kind.
My comment stated what I thought of your comment. It was blunt and short but not without meaning. The brevity might suggest to you that I didn't think your comment warranted additional time. I engage more substantively with good thinking. I'm making an exception here because I see you lashing out instead of looking inward.
Take my comment point by point and you have some opportunity to improve your writing and thinking. Or dismiss it and continue on with your current path. Or counterattack again. Some paths will help you grow and some won't. Choose wisely. I'm not your enemy -- ego and defensiveness are.
Don't worry -- so many tech people have tremendous opportunity for self improvement. Myself included.
> My comment stated what I thought of your comment. It was blunt and short but not without meaning. The brevity might suggest to you that I didn't think your comment warranted additional time. I engage more substantively with good thinking. I'm making an exception here because I see you lashing out instead of looking inward.
> Take my comment point by point and you have some opportunity to improve your writing and thinking. Or dismiss it and continue on with your current path. Or counterattack again. Some paths will help you grow and some won't. Choose wisely. I'm not your enemy -- ego and defensiveness are.
Your comment is by definition (bad) meta thus useless, you are not making any point aside from resorting to a personal attack, which is frowned upon here. It serves absolutely no purpose as you're not developing a counter argument, nothing.
You couldn't even make a complete sentence with a noun, pronoun and a verb...
Now stop wasting people time and get on with your life doing something meaningful for a change, you should reflect on that instead of having the audacity to tell people to "improve their writing".
You are lashing out. I'm sorry you feel hurt or insulted.
My first comment did not attack you personally. It criticized your writing and reasoning.
Substantively, I disagree with about 80% of your sentences, but I don't have additional time to get into it with you, because I don't think it will be very productive, particularly with how the dynamic is going.
I do apologize if I sound condescending or mean or judgmental. I know little about you: you may well be older, more experienced, more successful, wiser, happier, or kinder. You may be having a bad day, week, month, year, decade, or life.
I'm trying to strike a balance between being direct and honest without offending you. I'm quite confident you need to hear this message whether you are ready for it or not.
I wish you (and everyone) the best. You may want to have the last word (if you wish), but I don't expect to reply further.
> You are lashing out. I'm sorry you feel hurt or insulted.
You started the inane ramblings on purpose, I don't care about your feelings, you're not even trying to make any point, you're just pilling up on people and trolling them in the hope that they somehow cross the line and they get banned if they go out of line due to your repeated provocations.
Your behaviors are not beneficial for yourself or for this community. You seem to think you are standing up against a troll. But your words reveal a person making a bunch of guesses based on only one point of view. Based on this, you lash out.
I am not trying to get you banned. That would not have much long term benefit. That would not help you either. You would just get angrier I'd guess.
I'm trying to have a conversation to help you see another point of view. So far, you have not answered my questions. You have not asked clarifying questions. Fair?
Are you really so confident in the things you are saying? I think you will benefit if you can at least temporarily reduce your sense of confidence in your assessments. This might help you to not lash out at people that you think are your enemy.
Here are some questions for you to consider privately. You probably don't want to answer them here with someone you seem to detest so much... Why are you so angry? Why so accusative? Have you asked friends or a trusted person to assess your behavior? Do you have some kind of ethical or moral code? What is it? Does it justify your choice of words (a kind of behavior) here? Have you experienced any traumatic life events? Do you know where the hate is coming from?
Answer my questions, at least to yourself? Or continue being angry and not address them?
Your choice. Maybe. Do you have a choice? Could you reply kindly if you tried? Or are you locked in a counter-attack mentality? What could break the pattern?
What would make you happy (or relatively less unhappy) here? For me to admit that your claims are correct? I'm sorry, but I'm not going to say things that aren't true.
I have not insulted you, and I'm not going to. Everything you are doing is quite human, and all of us have done some parts of it or worse ourselves. This doesn't mean it is useful or helpful.
Your ideas, at least as written here, are flawed and quite unreasonable, and that's ok. Improve yourself and start caring, and your life can get better. Believe it or not, I care. Seriously.
I couldn't give a damn about anything you say because there is absolutely nothing you say that is related to the comment I answered to at first place in the thread. Next time instead of trolling people, come up with an argumented rebuttal. This isn't what you're doing, you're just trying to patronize people and you end up sounding like yet another internet concern troll.
Actually, there are probably cheaper ways he could have made the Fediverse a viable competitor to Twitter, even if he somehow manages to later sell Twitter for 90% of what he paid for it.