It wasn’t about video length, it was about the Twitter leadership at that time being categorically incapable of monetizing any of their products.
Combine that with the orders-of-magnitude higher cost of running Vine compared to the bird, and it was always either going to be sold off or shut down.
It’s easy to forget that this was back in the time when these companies thought they were changing the planet for the better and drinking their own Kool aid by the gallon.
Great summary, but I want to point out that the reality of why they’re doing this is to pander to racist voters who were told their opinion by a highly effective villification campaign against this woman in tabloid newspapers.
Once these things gain traction, politicians always kowtow to the loudest public opinions
Which is also exactly how Signal works too; I migrated both two days ago. Process was virtually identical.
I much prefer Signal, but can’t judge WhatsApp to harshly on this tbh.
What in the actual fuck
Mark Zuckerberg needs to tread carefully or he might have to spend another afternoon answering the nonsensical questions of a bunch of geriatric luddites.
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The useful idiot certainly keeps himself busy doesn’t he
I mean, yeah, doesn’t everyone?
already paying more than 30% of their income — the standard threshold
See how they tried to normalize that hoping you wouldn’t notice?
This is also slightly off. It was primarily to eliminate third party apps from the existing landscape. Reddit want money from users in one of two ways:
Due to the extortionate pricing, (2) was only ever hypothetical. In reality there was no sustainable model for this for any third party app, even as a non-profit.
The case around AI does exist, but it was smoke and mirrors for Reddit pulling the same nonsense that Twitter did once they realized they might get away with it, regardless of the short term damage it would do to their public image.
They should change it to “reject and swerve”.
Yes it’s called ‘You left your carbon footprints on my heart’
nothing purrsonal kit
Shave the beard from your neck, it’s draining your humanity
I hope he takes this firing as a window of opportunity. With the right attitude he can really ground himself.
Move then?
Great, now I have to worry about this every time I order a curry
His actual goal is in the final sentence of the article and has nothing to do with moral intent.