When this is over, we're going to owe Musk a debt of gratitude for demonstrating not just the folly of relying on sociopath billionaires to give us places to speak and collaborate.

He's demonstrated the danger inherent in all centralized services where one person or company can control what we say and do.

@dangillmor only one problem: will it be over? If so, what will remain of our democracies?
@vincentduke @dangillmor what remains of our democracies now? the courts long ago admitted that money is power and that’s constitutional; giving any power to women or immigrants or the victims of police brutality, is not; justices are literally above the law; corruption is baked in

@sarahgilbert

It's so funny to see you guys considering your system a democracy.

Garymandering, political parties doing everything to prevent people form voting (since ever) and the list goes on and on.

Even when you talk about tw, have a look at this thread, you only see the US from the US. This is the intenet and the whole world is on tw.
Backdoors?

Well if "we" aren't affected ..

People that live in democracies look at your conversations and it's like ..

@vincentduke @dangillmor