If Mastodon diehards want this to be The Next Place after Twitter, the move is to bend over backwards to listen to disabled and Black community about what they do and don't need in social media space.

Even if it's challenging.

Even if it makes you uncomfortable.

These are power user communities, whether folks like it or not.

RT @[email protected]

"Twitter’s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter. We have asked Twitter for an explanation, and we will reevaluate our relationship based on that response."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1603585773848109057

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see [email protected] or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

The suspensions were internally "direction of Ella" - that's Ella Irwin, Twitter's Trust and Safety head

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

I've stayed on Twitter for a number of reasons, including functionality, archival purposes. and ease of use. I'm also just stubborn, and don't want Elon Musk dictating how I use social media. I use Twitter for me, not him.

After tonight's purge of journalists, that stance may no longer be tenable. I'm honestly not sure what Twitter is anymore, except the plaything of a thin skinned man baby with too much money and too many enablers.

Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy a platform in order to ban journalists for saying things he doesn't like.

Don't ever let these cowards get away with claiming they support free speech.