@lauren

The last time a CEO destroyed a brand so completely so quickly was Gerald Rattner, CEO of a UK jewelers who called his products 'complete crap' in a private industry after dinner talk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner

I think the real problem here is Musk has been under severe financial pressure for 12-18 months and the Twitter purchase was intended to be a pretext for dumping $20B of stock at the peak without $TSLA cratering. I think Elmo figured it was worth paying $1B to cash out $20B.

Most big companies try to prevent bubbles in their stock price because what goes up, comes down. I remember back in the day the $MSFT folk talking about hiding a chubby etc. They were deliberately understating their results to avoid creating a price bubble during the dotcom boom.

SpaceX hasn't done anything on Starship for a year now. First sign something was up was when they lost their ability to launch at Boca Raton because they didn't bother to file the paperwork.

Tesla is in a huge cash crunch, the Chinese factory has cost billions and production is hobbled by zero COVID.

The really puzzling part is going after Dorsey now. Dorsey has the personal means to dump whatever it takes into Blue Sky just to spite Elmo. And he might even get the clue that Blue Sky should be a part of the Fediverse.

Regardless, my plan is to take the Threshold Key Infrastructure I have already built and work out how to apply it to take the Fediverse to the next level: Portable Internet accounts.

Mesh contact assertions are signed and can contain an update URI. So if we exchange our Mesh contacts, we each have each other's Mesh credentials, OpenPGP, S/MIME, Code Signing, Git commit signing, SSH authentication, etc. etc. And if we add or change something (Signal? Whatsapp? Everything?) then those are automatically added too.

Its all open source and open infrastructure. That is, you choose your Mesh service provider but you get to change at any time without penalty. And because Mesh contacts automatically update, the fact that Mesh accounts are portable makes all your other accounts portable as well.

Looking for for collaborators if you are looking for projects. Not looking to make anything commercial right now, this is like the Web, it is infrastructure and has to be an open public good to be useful.