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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 05:41:25 JST Evan Prodromou

   I am holding in my thoughts the technical and support staff still at Twitter. It's been a hard month.

   I think some of them are probably holding on to keep a well-paying job, especially in the current job market.

   But I think others are holding on because they believe the service they provide is important to society and the world.

   As things go wrong there, I'm trying to keep a mindset of gratitude for the hard work they're doing.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 05:53:37 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Bob Wyman

     @bobwyman Fair enough! I've always had friendly relationships with Twitter technical leadership. @blaine ofc, but also Alex Payne, Ryan Sarver, Raffi Krikorian, and Parag Agarwal.

     At least three of those people supported the idea of a federated social network, or "Twitter as a protocol", as I heard more often.

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     Bob Wyman (bobwyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2022 05:53:38 JST Bob Wyman

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     @evan The folk at Twitter should be tremendously proud of the service and community they built. But, they should also be acknowledge that what they did was fundamentally flawed in that it enclosed a space that should have been open and federated, in much the same way that email and the web are. These two conflicting ideas should be held simultaneously.