I don’t get all complaining about Twitter moving to a subscription model. Assume it’s mostly Elon bad, so new thing Elon does is bad.

The product will improve if the default experience is you only see subscribers.

My experience with the “only show notifications from subscribers” feed is that it was worthless. I expect to just move to lists. 

Also: it does feel like a public good is getting destroyed, even if as a for profit company it should’ve never acted like one, it will be missed.

on the public good point

1. http://paulgraham.com/twitter.html

2. why we are building Farcaster as a protocol!

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Wow, this shows the scamminess of some VCs. I doubt anyone with a reasonable technical skillset would have ever called Twitter a protocol. It‘s the classic Paul Graham „dream-selling“ he did it with Airbnb too. For real, fuck that guy. I can totally appreciate someone building that protocol. But tell the truth!

Founder /kiwi-news, a decentralized Hacker News

optimist • building the front page of onchain culture at /forage • ENS: richiebonilla.eth

yeah but a RESTful API is not a protocol in my book either.

dick costello is the ceo who shut down the api and monetized the app with ads, not the founders. he couldn’t monetize the feed without centralizing the ux through their first party clients. pg is describing the founders’ intent.