[kwlug-disc] The Fediverse is complicated

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Khalid Baheyeldin (kb at 2bits.com):

> The social media companies are private entities and want to make
> money.  That money comes from advertisers. If there is too much
> objectionable content, they will cease to advertise. It is like "no
> shirt, no shoes, no service". 

"Beau of the Fifth Column" (journalist Justin King of Florida) had a
shrewd if homespun explanation, two weeks ago, about Space Karen and
his rapid destruction of Twitter, Inc.'s revenue model:  As King points
out, Mr. Musk destroyed (_even a fortnight ago_) advertisers' perception
that the bird site is a "brand safe" place to advertise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byazeV3gfis&t=353s

Since then, Mr. Musk actually threatened (in writing) the company's
advertisers in various tweets, speaking of raining legal ruin upon them
for, in his eyes, disloyalty.  

I'm suddenly reminded of Jahn Rentmeister point's, back in ancient Web
1.0 days (1996) about the Germans having a motto that "No one has ever
won an argument with a customer."  http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Web/opti.html

BTW, what you're hearing, there (on YouTube), is apparently genuine
rural-Florida diction and a rural-Florida accent -- with a first-class
mind behind it.  Which I'll admit surprised me (on account of unfair
stereotype problems on my part).

-- 
Cheers,               « Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen
Rick Moen             des loi toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit 
rick at linuxmafia.com   pendable dix fois en sa vie. » 
McQ! (4x80)                               -- Michel de Montaigne, Essais