Everyone hoping antitrust cases are going to solve the Twitter implosion are going to have an unhappy time.
The law isn't going to fix it. Antitrust requires finding that Twitter is market-dominant in the US, which is probably isn't, and the EU is very big but very slow.
I get it; it sucks. But there's no cavalry coming to fix it so you don't have to make hard choices. It lives or dies based only on whether enough users choose to leave to break its dominance.
While Elon is yelling at Tim Cook over social media, and still finding a way to blame the Democrats for everything, everybody seems to have forgotten Apple, Google, and Twitter are global companies.
He’s sacked Twitter’s entire European digital policy team. The Democrats are puppies compared to how friendly the EU is going to be to Elon.
I think there is more than a 25% chance Google and Apple aren’t going to have a choice about keeping Twitter in their European app stores.
He's the richest man only because Telsa is a memestock.
Once people realize Tesla's value is high for the same basic reason FTX's was*, it'll normalize down to something a lot smaller.
* people put money in, and number go up; and because number go up, more people put more money in. All while paying lots of attention to the brand and the memes but without paying much attention to the fundamentals of the business
"Federation" now apparently means "DDoS yourself." Every time I do a new blog post, within a second I have over a thousand simultaneous hits of that URL on my web server from unique IPs. Load goes over 100, and mariadb stops responding. The server is basically unusable for 30 to 60 seconds until the stampede of Mastodons slows down. Presumably each of those IPs is an instance, none of which ...
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