Good summary, Dave. Sums up how I feel for the most part. It's sad, though, as my experience of the internet is now so tied up with Twitter. It's going to be hard to leave. However, it'll be easy to not tweet.
Agreed, Dave. I've found Twitter to be a great source for 'news as it happens' and in Minnesota during the winter, weather and road condition updates. But if I have to leave (for many of the reasons Dave Chen observes, and those that already drive me nuts), I will.
This week, I witnessed news of the DCU beginning anew.
But enough about the David Chen Universe...!
Having enjoyed the Filmcast for many years now (you know it's special when one will strive to watch something only to be able to enjoy the discussion of said thing), I am glad your thoughtful discourse and wry observations on our art, culture and society will continue outside of the blue bird's cage.
I’m still on Twitter for the time being but feel very ambivalent about it. I welcome the opportunity to read more long-form pieces of yours, and also to see how the engagement / conversations go on here. (Several folks I follow on Twitter are gravitating to here and enabling them chat function.) As others have mentioned, your output of writing and talking and editing and etc. is astounding! (I worry sometimes, Dave, that you allow yourself more down time.)
Great to have the newsletter back and you make a very compelling case for leaving Twitter. I barely frequent it as it is so it should be a painless transition.
Great newsletter, thank you David! With Musk threatening to fire 75% of the employees and weird demands (code reviews, get the verification feature done by Nov 7, etc.) I was wondering why any of the engineers would stay at Twitter? How is the tech job market in the US, currently? Aren't there enough well paid, good jobs for everyone to move to?
Enjoyed your thoughts and summary of other compelling takes on the Twitter story. I'm going to stick around on Twitter for now, for reasons that comics writer Gail Simone put nicely in a recent thread. I also think Musk has a near-impossible path to financially surviving this acquisition which will require him to actually *improve* on content moderation and safety, or at least we'll have front row seats to his epic flameout.
I hope my favorite content creators, including you, lead the way in exiting to other platforms. I tried Mastodon recently and it was a total ghost town. BlueSky may be more viable, when that's available. Maybe if a bunch of you got together and did it all at once...
Your output continues to baffle me. I'm not sure how you manage to produce so much in a given week, but I am glad this newsletter is back.
Good summary, Dave. Sums up how I feel for the most part. It's sad, though, as my experience of the internet is now so tied up with Twitter. It's going to be hard to leave. However, it'll be easy to not tweet.
Agreed, Dave. I've found Twitter to be a great source for 'news as it happens' and in Minnesota during the winter, weather and road condition updates. But if I have to leave (for many of the reasons Dave Chen observes, and those that already drive me nuts), I will.
This week, I witnessed news of the DCU beginning anew.
But enough about the David Chen Universe...!
Having enjoyed the Filmcast for many years now (you know it's special when one will strive to watch something only to be able to enjoy the discussion of said thing), I am glad your thoughtful discourse and wry observations on our art, culture and society will continue outside of the blue bird's cage.
"Bad Times at the Elon Royale" yassss
I’m still on Twitter for the time being but feel very ambivalent about it. I welcome the opportunity to read more long-form pieces of yours, and also to see how the engagement / conversations go on here. (Several folks I follow on Twitter are gravitating to here and enabling them chat function.) As others have mentioned, your output of writing and talking and editing and etc. is astounding! (I worry sometimes, Dave, that you allow yourself more down time.)
Great to have the newsletter back and you make a very compelling case for leaving Twitter. I barely frequent it as it is so it should be a painless transition.
Great newsletter, thank you David! With Musk threatening to fire 75% of the employees and weird demands (code reviews, get the verification feature done by Nov 7, etc.) I was wondering why any of the engineers would stay at Twitter? How is the tech job market in the US, currently? Aren't there enough well paid, good jobs for everyone to move to?
It's a tough market out there these days! I wouldn't be surprised if people felt like they couldn't leave.
Enjoyed your thoughts and summary of other compelling takes on the Twitter story. I'm going to stick around on Twitter for now, for reasons that comics writer Gail Simone put nicely in a recent thread. I also think Musk has a near-impossible path to financially surviving this acquisition which will require him to actually *improve* on content moderation and safety, or at least we'll have front row seats to his epic flameout.
Great newsletter Dave!
I was sceptical at first, as usually I like the small bites on twitter.
But this is written in such a fun, easy to read way!
Keep it going!
But don‘t feel the need to produce even more extra stuff, as you put out plenty of content right now!! :)
Just joined the newsletter, catching back up with posts...besides all the Twitter news that’s erupted further since Halloween here’s another interesting development: the devaluation of “check marks” into easily purchased (and unverified) tokens has started to spread to other socials. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451901/tumblr-blue-internet-checkmark-sale-twitter-verification-troll
(oops this didn’t take as long as I thought) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/twitter-quietly-drops-8-paid-verification-tricking-people-not-ok-musk-says/
I hope my favorite content creators, including you, lead the way in exiting to other platforms. I tried Mastodon recently and it was a total ghost town. BlueSky may be more viable, when that's available. Maybe if a bunch of you got together and did it all at once...