Aaron RuparDec 23, 2022
Hello everyone! I am now on the @journa server, so hopefully this becomes my Mast forever home. If you want to get up to speed about why I'm finally getting active here, here's my piece from earlier this week on my Twitter suspension and the fallout from it. https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/aaron-rupar-twitter-suspension-elon-musk
The upsides (and downsides) of angering one of the world's richest men

Reflections on getting suspended from Twitter.

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@atrupar

Great to see you here. I'm sure it is tough to walk away from 1M followers, but you did the right thing. People here are very rapidly building networks AND reporting the engagement to be far superior.

Ultimately, Twitter and Mastodon are virtual town squares - and a virtual town square can be recreated elsewhere very quickly. Which we are. I wrote about it here:
https://briangordon.ca/2022/12/16/the-time-has-come-to-abandon-twitter/

The Time has Come to Abandon Twitter | The Way Home

Unlike a physical public square that we can and should fight for, Twitter is a virtual public space that can be remade literally overnight elsewhere. And it is.

The Way Home | From Where We Are To Where We Must Go
Dec 24, 2022 at 1:32pmWeb