I'm a huge Elon fan. I think virtually everything he's done has improved twitter and he did an amazing service to the world by buying it and leveling the playing field in politics.
The external linking is definitely controversial for good reason, but iirc the reason he targeted aubstack was they were pulling the entire database of tweets …
I'm a huge Elon fan. I think virtually everything he's done has improved twitter and he did an amazing service to the world by buying it and leveling the playing field in politics.
The external linking is definitely controversial for good reason, but iirc the reason he targeted aubstack was they were pulling the entire database of tweets to use as a basis for their own service and imo reasonably Elon thought allowing a direct competitor to use your own material against you in that way was undesirable and went scorched earth. It resulted in a worse situation re. linking however, and ideally that would be solved amicably because unlike virtually every other change, it degrades the service for users and creators.
I'm a huge Elon fan. I think virtually everything he's done has improved twitter and he did an amazing service to the world by buying it and leveling the playing field in politics.
The external linking is definitely controversial for good reason, but iirc the reason he targeted aubstack was they were pulling the entire database of tweets to use as a basis for their own service and imo reasonably Elon thought allowing a direct competitor to use your own material against you in that way was undesirable and went scorched earth. It resulted in a worse situation re. linking however, and ideally that would be solved amicably because unlike virtually every other change, it degrades the service for users and creators.