One of the people who did the most to help make Twitter popular -- because his application made it better -- calls it quits after Musk and minions pulled the plug last week on him and many others. He sees great possibilities in the protocol underlying Mastodon, and I can't wait to see what he and people like him do to restore a truly decentralized web: https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/109695112387770838

"What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what’s going on. We had no chance to thank customers who have been with us for over a decade. Instead, it’s just another scene in their ongoing shit show.

"But I guess that’s what you should expect from a shitty person."

--- Craig Hockenberry on Elon Musk

https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/

The Shit Show • furbo.org

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

Furbo.org by Craig Hockenberry
@dangillmor
And what you should eventually inevitably expect if you buy and think you 'own' a Tesla.
@Silversalty True of almost all products today that have embedded processors and network capability.

@dangillmor
And required charged connectivity (GM).

Difference is the, at this point, known 'qualities' of the unit in control.