Chris TrottierOn Mastodon, there's two groups of people:
1. Those who want to recreate Twitter
2. Those who want to bury Twitter, then pave over its grave
I'm of the second group.
Dave Winer ☕️i'm in neither group. I think Mastodon is useful and interesting, but it isn't Twitter.
I'm also hanging in there for Twitter, it's too valuable to let it go without some kind of effort to preserve what it is.
@davew I used to be a big believer in Twitter. I even helped build the #1 3rd party Twitter app. In fact, Twitter has benefited me materially in many ways.
However, after witnessing the ugly side of Twitter last March—specifically, how it can be used to harass people with inconvenient narratives—I resolved to work towards its demise.
As far as I'm concerned, the only benefit of Twitter is as an archive of past data. But even that has problems.
JucaI don't have any hope for Twitter as long as Elon owns it.