Hello world. Twitter migrant and new #histodon #librarian here possibly leaving behind approx 60k good souls on the platform that sold us all out to Musk. I put in a lot of time and work on that site for over 10 years and made many great friends & contacts, so it’s sad and a bit surreal to have to start again.

But such is the nature of the unregulated social media industry, where global information systems can be upended on the whim of an erratic, uncurious and narcissistic billionaire.
It’s clear to me that Musk purchased twitter in order to destroy it. The blue checkmark is a verification mark for authenticity. This is particularly important in terms of identifying sources. To make it pay-to-play is to burn twitter's reliability as a news source, and it's reliability in general, to the ground.
@Limerick1914 I wonder how much (monetary) value his plaything will have when he is finished. How much money is he willing to burn?