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My Zoe is pretty accurate in summer. ZE50 R135 version, WLTP quoted range 238 miles. In summer I regularly see 240+ on long trips (A22, M25 Uckfield-Uxbridge). And on one perfect day when everything came together managed closer to 270 miles on the home leg. Winter it drops massively (more like...

So another key aspect: Musk has far less personal control of Tesla. That company is somewhat insulated from his more ... problematic ... decision making foibles. For starters, he's only a minority owner today. And while he is CEO, there are checks and balances in place that prevent him exerting...

It's the problem with going thematic. Mastodon = ancient elephant ancestor = "trumpet"? Trump? Trumping? Can see why they didn't go there! So they landed on Toots and Tooting. Forgot to reply to this bit earlier. The initial "exodus" was more about people going and trying an alternative...

I think Tesla will be fine. The big problem with Musk at Twitter is that he's trying to apply what he's learned from previous successes to Twitter, but Twitter is a very different beast. Tesla is more of a "clock" problem. Although AI uses in transport are shifting that a bit, it's still...

<boring> Posts on Mastodon are called "toots", so it'll be tooting. </boring>

From what I'm told, it doesn't matter *that* much. Advice I've seen is to go for something in your local region so you get content relevant to that region by default (so, a UK-based server should be first choice for us). You can still follow people, and see content, from other servers. And you...

They could, but it would take time and money. More likely that many of them will find roles in alternative companies. Some of them will end up getting involved with Mastodon.

Twitter is a lot more than a FE app. If the BE systems start failing, the FE app will also begin to fail. For context: I'm a product manager for a team that works on a (smaller scale than Twitter) social media platform. Cannot understate how important it is to retain staff who know how the...

Guaranteed. My understanding is that Twitter (like Amazon) made significant use of test-and-learn processes where they would roll out lots of small changes to small numbers of users, see what impact those changes had, and then either revert them or implement them fully.

@beorhthelm The software to make Twitter work behind the scenes will be a massive tech stack. And unless they've been extremely careful over the years as they've layered in new features, there will be significant interdependencies in the code base. Setting aside Twitter itself, with such a large...

Saw a rather good theory for where Musk is going wrong. It uses something called the Clocks and Clouds theory (originates from Karl Popper). Boiling it down, there's two types of "problems" in the world: Clock problems, and Cloud problems. Clock problems are ones where you know when you've...