At least it’s explicit policy. FB messenger likes to fail to send signal URLs, mark PushBullet URLs as unsafe. Deprioritize YT links in the FB feed too. It’s not an official policy, just plausible denial secret policy.
I respect Elon for making decisions quickly. I’m sure with good hypotheses behind them. And especially how he is always doing it very much in the open.
Transparent, decisive, opinionated leadership won’t make everyone happy but at least it’s a short feedback loop with someone who cares.
And if you think this is anti competitive, I ask you to reconsider your priorities. How about the digital advertising industry eliminating most other software industries by taking giant losses to provide complete suites of apps for free?
He started off by acting like it was because links to the plane tracker existed on Mastodon though. This "transparency" is reluctant and lags behind the actual policy change.
Again, you are benefiting from transparency of his opinions to form your own opinion. I think you being able to disagree is valuable, and I’m not really trying to change your mind either.
He lied, got caught since it was completely obvious what he was actually doing, and had to fess up to to. That's not transparency and calling it that is giving him way too much credit
I respect Elon for making decisions quickly. I’m sure with good hypotheses behind them. And especially how he is always doing it very much in the open.
Transparent, decisive, opinionated leadership won’t make everyone happy but at least it’s a short feedback loop with someone who cares.
And if you think this is anti competitive, I ask you to reconsider your priorities. How about the digital advertising industry eliminating most other software industries by taking giant losses to provide complete suites of apps for free?