Thinking that the need for social media must be met by a single monolithic corporation is a failure of imagination. It's like being on AOL, blissfully aware of

Thinking that the need for social media must be met by a single monolithic corporation is a failure of imagination. It's like being on AOL, blissfully aware of the wider Internet, and thinking the need for email must be met by a single monolithic corporation. The cycle you're referring to isn't inevitable, we can do better and we must. I happen to think Mastodon can be improved on architecturally, but if Twitter were to close up shop tomorrow, I reckon more people would move there than, say, Parler.