Everyone hoping antitrust cases are going to solve the Twitter implosion are going to have an unhappy time.
The law isn't going to fix it. Antitrust requires finding that Twitter is market-dominant in the US, which is probably isn't, and the EU is very big but very slow.
I get it; it sucks. But there's no cavalry coming to fix it so you don't have to make hard choices. It lives or dies based only on whether enough users choose to leave to break its dominance.
@Pwnallthethings i think we're past the point of no return, anyway.
check out what john bull has written about "the trust thermocline" and think about how that describes this precise moment in time.
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The other element he only indirectly mentions is the state of the alternatives. Mastodon is good, but it's showing some signs of not scaling well (e.g., getting a lot of timeouts, today, when using the search function).
@ferricoxide @Pwnallthethings hypergrowth is never something smoothly handled.
further, mastodon/fediverse is a big ol' distributed system so that's a layer of fun all by itself.
i encourage patience. the entire system is being hit hard today.
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Been using the internet since 1989. Seen a lot of things go through growing pains. *t breeds a kind of patience.
People that have only ever known things when they've (mostly) "just worked" are the ones I'd fear being immediately turned off and bail.
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