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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by fossuser on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:56PM (#33497037)
The Twitter status quo was one of stagnation (took them ten years to ship edit to a handful of people) - they're a good example of how you can basically do everything wrong, but if you have product market fit it's hard to fail.

He's trying to pivot them into a focused company. I think his actions make sense in that context.

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Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:17PM (#33541337)
There's no context in which many of his actions make sense. He ranked people based on lines of code written, immediately fired thousands of them based on that objectively stupid metric, than immediately tried to rehire a bunch of them because the company couldn't function without them. "Random flailing" is the most charitable way to characterize that.
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