Michael StancliftTwitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
Toddo 
@vmstan There’s a weird trust of big corporations (over small, independent anything) kinda baked into our neoliberal/late-capitalist moment. It is baffling to me.
@toddo indeed. I tell people my instance costs about $50 a month and a bunch of us are chipping in … but they would rather see a “business” behind it even if it’s $44b in debt.
Riley S. Faelan