Walker BragmanElon Musk, the world’s richest man, is actively destroying a critical public forum where journalists, scientists, public officials, foreign leaders, artists, etc. congregated and communicated directly.
It’s criminal.
Eeeee Woooo@walkerbragman entirely possible there’s more to it. Via Capitol hunters who tweeted some Musk-Thiel burn it all down - lying all the way kind of stuff. Thread and all docs are here - https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1zPeWaaCZHqfq0tnkPwc61A6bGHySdj91 (If you must: https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368?s=46&t=DrN6tRdWPgrAmLwVXb8xWw)
sfunk1x@walkerbragman Yes, Twitter is certainly a lesson that services like that should never be controlled by private organizations in any scenario.
John BaileyExactly.
There are things we should engineer to protect them from corporate, oligarch, or even government domination.
It's brilliant in the shift it has the potential to drive - in social media platforms, diversification, resiliency, usage, understanding of those things - and dialogue about oligarch domination of society.
Dan Wentzel 🏳️🌈@walkerbragman And it allowed ordinary people to “tweet” truth to the rich and powerful.
supernal resonance@walkerbragman musk being who he is and people having the perception of him that they do, one wonders how long it will take before they decide all this damage was in fact intentional and in service to a master plan.
Estus for the rest of us@walkerbragman Mastodon is gonna have to beef its servers up at this rate.
Us refugees are here in force.
@walkerbragman I'll this opportunity to say you are truly an inspiration, and I'll always be thankful to the bird app for introducing me to you and so many other amazing journalists, political players and activists fighting for our future.
I shudder to think how narrow my understanding of so many issues would have been without it.
Jen@walkerbragman that’s the saddest part about all of this for me. I learned a lot over there, saw a lot of people really networking, and followed so many interesting people with a wide range of expertise.