Twitter made me, and it can break me because those are the rules of capitalism and the concentration of wealth in the hands of the 1%. I am concerned that Elon Musk took Twitter into his possession with the entitlement of a medieval lord towards a castle and its occupants fallen to him in battle. No quarter was given to Twitter employees because, in the first week of ownership, Musk sacked 50% of its workforce, and gutted the technical teams involved with removing racists from the site. Elon Musk owning Twitter makes content producers like me feel the new squire of this social media town square will run it like a Gauleiter. He needs to make money fast because Musk paid far too much for the object of his desire, and it is bleeding capital. The terror is that either in panic or rage, he will transform Twitter into the equivalent of a Cern Supercollider for fascism and racism accelerating the end of truth in the news media, politics and everyday life.
Harry’s and your tweets deserve to be read in perpetuity, so I hope that you have downloaded your archive and regularly do so - otherwise you _will_ vanish when ol’ muddlehead gets bored and burns it down. And once you have it, you can make it available freely via Bittorrent for example?
Then come and join us in a corner of Mastodon that you feel comfortable in! Once settled there, Twitter can be the streetparty you can go to when you feel strong enough, but can leave when it gets too much!
Clear headed analysis, John. Thanks.
Harry’s and your tweets deserve to be read in perpetuity, so I hope that you have downloaded your archive and regularly do so - otherwise you _will_ vanish when ol’ muddlehead gets bored and burns it down. And once you have it, you can make it available freely via Bittorrent for example?
Then come and join us in a corner of Mastodon that you feel comfortable in! Once settled there, Twitter can be the streetparty you can go to when you feel strong enough, but can leave when it gets too much!