Dear journalists: Please do not report Musk's ridiculous Trump-reinstatement "poll" as anything other than what it is, a fraudulent fig leaf to justify what he planned to do anyway.
It is journalistic malpractice to treat it any other way. Please don't fall for this.
Social networks need critical mass to sustain themselves.
Part of that is making sure this site has that critical mass by encouraging folks to come here.
Part of that is making sure bird site isn't a place where you provide free content anymore.
There's a good chance when you joined here, you cared more about the first of those as a hedge against bird site dying.
But if recent changes mean you want birdsite to affirmatively die, you'll need to do both.
For the Tweeps that didn’t get the axe today, they know it’s coming and feel that they’re there, at best, going to be used for knowledge transfer and then given the boot.
Maybe you don’t need to give them all the info you know. Maybe quiet quitting starts today. Maybe you think about other ways to push back. Solidarity.