Until now I hadn’t appreciated that were very serious structural problems at Twitter. I thought Elon would make it messy, but it would robustly continue. This below, however, is starting to make me much more concerned.

I came across to Mastodon out of curiosity, fun, sense of opportunity & respect for the concept. Now I’m thinking it’s a vital hedge for us all against serious Twitter risks, including collapse.

@mikegalsworthy If you wanted to damage public discourse, remove the ability of citizens in countries with oppressive regimes to organise dissent and make it harder for information to circulate quickly and widely, how would you do it?
@Permaconfused By wrecking all the main social media channels...
@mikegalsworthy I can't imagine that would happen... Oh.