By the end of April, the bird site will be a substantially different user experience. Legacy check marks gone; only Blue in “For You”; no non-blue in polls.

This will have the effect of warping the entire ecosystem towards fascist shills, demagogues, and opportunists.

Now would be a good time to invest in alternative infrastructure, including making sure Mastodon instances are fast and robust. We are going to need them.

@davetroy true, also financially robust i would like to add, because also Mastodon is not for "free".
@ErikJonker @davetroy
Funny, I heard yesterday that the bird site was valued at about 20 billion, less than half of what musky paid for it. Doesn't sound robust to me.
@Neidfyre @ErikJonker @davetroy If it's worth half of that I'd be surprised. If so, it's entirely because corporate news sites and trolls are sticking with their right wing ally Musk, and others just don't understand what they're doing.