news.ycombinator.com• Oct 31, 2022• 1 min read
Ask HN: How can responsible engineers shape the future of Twitter?(my first Ask HN attempt failed because I had included a URL, which, I shouldn't have)These general thoughts came to me as part of a small thread on the Logseq community [1] but a variety of follow-up thoughts came to me, which I thought would share with one of the communities that I connect the most with (I might be wrong but that's how we learn).I began to ask myself what does a civilised and modern world look like, with this transactions occurring in it. To see, mainly how we can adapt to this new world of Elon leading Twitter with its high potential and many risks as well.A number of things change, now that Elon is running Twitter. First off, that's horrible news for many. I hope Twitter HR (who should be under a lot of pressure right now) are doing a good job, handling the logistics there.In terms of Twitter product management teams though, I think they can get inspired by serious conversations in the community as to what features they will now put forward and to what degree, will