Over the years, Mastodon has occasionally seen the number of incoming users shift from a flood to a trickle and back again. While the flow of people jumping over from Twitter now is slower than it was shortly after Musk’s takeover, as of this weekend the “fediverse” microblogging platform now has over 10 million registered accounts across known server instances. Some Verge writers are among those registered — if you’re looking for someone to follow then here you go.
“It’s not like science is going to be held hostage by a guy that played himself into burning $44 billion on a website that makes no money, just so he could force all its users to read his shitposts.”
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/
So... the summary is that for all the fear some people had that taxpayers would "bail out billionaires," and the corresponding fear that companies had that "a ton of our money could evaporate and destroy the economy with massive downstream impact"... FDIC/Treasury stepped in and did the right thing: depositors made whole, no taxpayer funds, bank assessment to make up any difference, & SVB equity/unsecured debtholders (mostly) wiped out.
A very good result.