This piece by @maria, on social media after 
, is a great read:
https://popula.com/2023/05/28/the-ourobouros-of-succession/
There is so much fantastic stuff to quote from it, that I would just implore you to read it in full!
But below, here are the bits that got me good.
Edit: here's Maria's own post on this, people should be engaging with it instead!
https://thelife.boats/@maria/110446928318020725
h/t @emilybell
> The questions to ask as replacements for Twitter emerge are the ones we should have been asking all along: Does management have ties to fascists or autocrats? Are there white supremacists involved? Profiteering monopolists? What safeguards have been put in place against the potential incursion of malevolent forces?? These are questions we’ve not been encouraged to ask.
My lord, this is so 
% on-point!
> But if you’re willing to trade the gloss for better values, so far Mastodon is the venue of choice. Yes, it is relatively difficult to find your friends on Mastodon; it’s difficult to get the hang of what things like “defederation” mean, and as yet there no meaningful way to search, because the global search that makes life so easy when you want to find someone makes it easy, also, for bad guys to target marginalized communities.
Thank you @maria for writing this:
https://popula.com/2023/05/28/the-ourobouros-of-succession/
Emily Bell
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