“The days of Usenet, IRC, the web… even email (with PGP)… were amazing,” Jack Dorsey said in a tweet over the weekend. “Centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I’m partially to blame, and regret it.”
Bro you don’t regret anything. It was obvious in the late 2000s that centralizing discovery and identity into corporations was going to damage the internet.
It was crystal clear that Twitter should basically become a protocol, just like HTML5 or IMAP, to continue being great.
You don’t regret it. You’re smart. You knew. You’re just now realizing how responsible you are for making Twitter less useful year after year, while allowing so much abuse that some people died.
You’re feeling guilty about it, as you should.