Those getting excited about the #Twitter poll #Musk has set up about whether he’ll continue as Twitter’s CEO may wish to consider two things.

1. Musk will still own Twitter. Anyone who replaces him in the CEO role will report to him and do his bidding.
2. Most important, sure, Musk is currently the problem we’re focussing on, but he’s a symptom as well. He’s a symptom of a fundamentally broken, dangerous model where one very wealthy individual can hijack public discourse. If the principles of a free, open Internet hadn’t been compromised, all the money in the world wouldn’t have allowed him to do what he’s doing now.
I get that it’s painful to rebuild our communities, to learn new ways of doing things and to make improvements to the underlying technology which will never be perfect, but this is our chance to learn the lessons of history and do it right this time. We must do all these things so this can never, ever happen again.
The decentralised, federated model, driven by the people, can never be bought. Under this model, we are all the co-owners, on Twitter, we were the product. Let Twitter go. The work we’re doing here at the moment is important, exciting and the way to a better future.

If you're wondering what the #JohnMastodon thing is about...

...here you go. Captured by the Wayback Machine for you, as the author has since realised he'd misread the Join Mastodon account name. 😂

And thusly, the legend of John Mastodon is born.