Stop worshipping billionaires.
Elon Musk threw away tens of billions of dollars to buy Twitter, and has spent the last year running it into the ground.
When billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech.
It’s a win for oligarchy.
lol you won't even be able to read viral tweet threads or the replies. The people paying to have their replies boosted are going to looooove this.
The best part is that all those "the site functions fine after layoffs!" morons won't realize that it's precisely because of those cuts that the service can no longer handle read traffic and they have to do this.
And the best part is that tracking this still requires write traffic for read status, so he's traded cheap reads for expensive writes.
I am totally new to Mastodon. Long term Twitter user interested in neuropsychology, psychedelics, geopolitics, Buddhism, and supporting Ukraine. NAFO Fella and Clinical Psychologist.
Here’s some of my AI art: