The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.

This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.

Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.

Workers > Billionaires

In less than 2 week the amount of registered accounts on #Mastodon went from 6 to 7 million. What an incredible achievement!

Congratulations @Gargron and the whole crew.... and a big thank you to all the admins of the various instances all around the world. You guys rock!

Oh and please don't forget to support these guys. Donate to your admins because they are the ones who brought us together.

And last but but not least: thx #elonmusk for being Mastodons biggest promoter 🙏

One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.

That there are systemic traps that trap workers in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.

hearing about mastodon.social being put on mute/block on other instances has me worried about being able to meet & interact with others!!! but i also have a ton of choice paralysis in considering the volume of possible places to relocate to

do we have like, a Beef Chart so i know which instances have blocked out which other instances so i can pepe silva my way through this process?? can we get that added to the api for masto or