From @scalzi: "Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg."

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

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@dangillmor @scalzi
" First, I’m not going to delete my account because I don’t want anyone else taking over my name."
Pretty much sums it up for me.
@dangillmor @scalzi Yeah, on the bright side, some new users brought some good content here with them. But they miss what they built there, and I don't blame them.
@dangillmor @scalzi “… having your career predicated on how many followers you have on a single site is fraught anyway” - still he/we struggle/s to break away from this idea
@dangillmor Ir was never a "city with thriving neighborhoods", it was a food court with a lot of customers who mostly did not run afoul of the whims of the mall cops. Or the ones who did, didn't get any press.
@dangillmor @scalzi @skry my favorite part: “Twitter is dead and X has shambled, lich-like, out of its hastily-dug grave.”