Liam HoganNov 4, 2022
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.
Show threadLiam HoganNov 4, 2022
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.
Show threadBrendan HalpinNov 4, 2022
@Limerick1914 Sacking huge proportions of staff and scaring the best of them away will also destroy it. If he's doing it on purpose, he's burning a lot of money.
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@bthalpin @Limerick1914 presumably he is where he is because he's a darling/pawn of the US deep state. Hence the funding.

Google, Facebook, Twitter are all intertwined with the CIA/NSA or whoever.
Musk is probably the cover for ruining Twitter as a medium for organising and knowledge exchange.

Nov 4, 2022 at 1:46pmWeb