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belkarx

04:24

@forest When the employee count is cut in half it does kind of make you wonder about stability. While some people are certainly leaving the platfrom over socio-political views, there are a fair amount that are also just predicting some form of collapse because of concrete managerial decisions to my understanding

Journeyman Geek

@belkarx a little more than that I suspect

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belkarx

07:31

@JourneymanGeek if you're referencing the politics-based quits, I can't attest to that - my feed is a combination of neuroscience researchers and random people into infosec/CS, most of which are staying pretty neutral and creating mastodon accounts but continuing to use twitter (often bridging both accounts)

Journeyman Geek

@belkarx more of people working there

I'm keeping my twitter up but also using mastodon...

since if interesting people move I'd want to be there too

belkarx

@JourneymanGeek you're right, number of employees has probably gone down since I last checked

Journeyman Geek

07:44

so my primary concern(s) are whether the bird site'll be around and functional in the long term

my bets are on 2-3 years of epic dumpster fires and musk selling it off once he's bored

belkarx

I also believe that's likely. He'll keep it going for a few months and then things will start falling apart slowly (technologically and in moderation), at which point he'll try to keep it for a few more months, probably attempt to change some core features, people will rapidly start leaving and he'll sell

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A. Hersean

09:13

I do not have any issue with the mods usually present in the DMZ, you all do good work. The issue I'm talking about is with CMs that sometimes are overzealous, never have to explain themselves, and can delete traces of their actions.

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Journeyman Geek

14:15

@A.Hersean Never have to explain themselves is incorrect

We literally don't, nor will ever have enough CMs to to handle all moderation everywhere

and with exception of people like @forest and I who're here anyway, off site mods don't really pop up unless something is flagged

so generally we won't get a CM taking action unless there's an issue escalated by someone

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