Chris TrottierSubstack is not a suitable alternative to Twitter.
If Elon Musk can buy Twitter, he can buy Substack.
However, Elon Musk cannot buy the Fediverse. No one company owns it. It is not for sale.
At this point, if a social network refuses to join the Fediverse, I’m not interested.
Anyone trying to build yet another proprietary walled garden is just a mini-Musk.
You do not need a billionaire or a VC fund to use social media.
They are just middlemen opportunists trying to insert themselves between you and your friends.
The Internet was built to make it easy for you to connect with others, and that is getting easier with protocols like ActivityPub.
You don’t need Elon Musk. You don’t need Mark Zuckerberg. You certainly don’t need any Silicon Valley tech bro to let you use social media.
Lily Star@atomicpoet I am old enough to remember when FB allowed some federation. Probably before Thiel.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@starlily @atomicpoet Are you thinking of when they allowed XMPP clients to connect to Messenger?