Johnathan Flowers on white flight from Twitter: "If they can force you out of a digital commons online, that gives them a good reason to assume that they can force you out of a commons in public using the same tactics. For my money, I think that’s one of the scariest things about Musk’s takeover is the ways in which it demonstrates how one need not change the rules of the common, one need not do anything to the broader forward-facing moderation policies ... [1/2]
@pbinkley I don't see it as being forced out. Twitter was a place I wanted to be and now it's a place I don't want to be. It's a choice to move on to something else that fits my needs. If the choice is taken away it becomes forced.