Elon Musk Destroys Twitter

Thanks to the comments on this article, I shall henceforth refer to Musk as Space Karen.

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Hands off Twitter, Elon. focus on your other shit.

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Canā€™t he just retire and go away?

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Wow, he sounds so presidentialā€¦ so Trump-like.

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Headline - twitter is going to sell it to Musk.

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fuck that shit. Iā€™m leaving twitter (as a user) and going off to the fediverse. I plunked down on mastodon.social, but a friendica instance isnā€™t a bad place to land, if youā€™re looking to ditch bird hellsite

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gotta hope they donā€™t give trump his account back, but suppose its inevitable now, and probably right before the elections.

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iā€™m thinking iā€™m leaving twitter, too, but i am not sure where to go. i need a non-facebook-owned alternativeā€¦

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As @tinoesroho alluded to, Mastodon is probably the most mature open, federated, twitter-like out there. One of the best parts about it is that nobody owns it, which means that Space Karen canā€™t buy it.

Iā€™ve almost signed up a few times, but never really had a good reason since I havenā€™t had a Twitter account for a while and havenā€™t been looking for a replacement. These developments have me thinking about it again. I should probably at least create an account for communicating outages like I have the extremely underutilized @elsewherecafe.

Also, since Mastodon is Free and open source, itā€™s possible to run your own instance. I wonder how difficult that would beā€¦

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Relatively easy.

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yeah, i keep hearing about Mastodon. a friend i have who has had an account for awhile says that itā€™s being crushed today with a new influx of people, so maybe thatā€™s the way to go. i think iā€™ll hang on for a little while on Twitter and see what happens.

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If I do try mastodon, Iā€™ll have to land at a server (node?) with policies similar to elsewhere. Twitter with a lock on dms and lurkers is tolerable but I anticipate a showy shitshow wherever Musk is involved.

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Any of the instances listed in https://joinmastodon.org/ are pretty well-moderated. Only saw ONE dick in hours of surfing the /federated (all servers) real time feed

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iā€™ve also heard that CounterSocial is worthwhile.

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This seems like wishful thinking.

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Musk either is absolutely clueless on both the law and on basic moderation needed to keep a platform like Twitter running, or heā€™s purposefully pretending to be clueless. Either way, this doesnā€™t bode well.

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