An Incredible Day In Internet History
It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.
It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.
@dan @mastodonmigration I feel like the speed with which he tanked his $44B investment was either a testament to how ego driven he really is, or intentional. Both are pretty horrible prospects.
I don't know if a billionaire villain buying his own bullshit and failing so spectacularly is better or worse than him working to destroy a major worldwide communications platform.
@ManiacalV
It's such a relief to see I'm not the only one considering both possibilities. I got shouted down here yesterday for suggesting Melon Usk might just be incompetent, rather than working to a coherent agenda of sabotage. Had a real AITA moment ;)
@ManiacalV @dan @mastodonmigration As soon as he had decided he would radically reduce staff and run Twitter like a start up, it then becomes lower risk to do so quickly rather then slowly.
However he should have offered all existing staff the 3 months pay to leave on his 1st day of ownership and given them 30 days to decide.
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Colin aka ManiacalV
EEAARRGGHH
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