On Whatever I'm talking about the name change of Twitter to X, what it means to me and others, and why I'm going to be on that site much less from now on.
(Also it means Mastodon will be a beneficiary, as probably a lot of things that would previously had been tweets will now become toots. Although I will have to remember to put a hashtag on the political stuff, I sometimes forget that)
@scalzi really nice to have you here on Mastodon. Like you I mourn Twitter’s devolution into Elon’s Fascist Funhouse. But when we worked at AOL I was mourning the pre-web internet of the late 80’s. The early internet was a freak show in the best possible sense. I get a similar (non-algorithmic) vibe here. Platforms come and go but there’s always a weird crowd somewhere if you know what to look for.
“Find the Others”
Scalzi
Bill O’Luanaigh