The only parallel I've ever seen to Twitter's current self-destruction was the Digg 4.0 fiasco.
At one time Digg had ~450 million users. Then they tried to push an extremely unpopular update that caused users to leave en masse.
Where did they go? Reddit.
And now Reddit is one of the biggest social media sites on the planet.
By the way, a whole lot of Internet users have forgotten about Digg -- or don't even know it existed.
Twitter could be Digg but on a much larger scale.
Going to try to post some stuff that is not about tech policy, not about the other site, etc. You know, just fun stuff.
So here: if you like card magic (hell, even if you don't think you like card magic), you should watch Dani DaOrtiz's performance on Penn & Teller's Fool Us this weekend, which shows why he is the greatest card magician in the world right now. It's not on YouTube yet, but I think it will be soon.
How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:
1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit