I like to call it user hostility. You would not believe the amount of disdain Twitter, Inc, has for its users. What's cute is that Twitter has always been a w

I like to call it user hostility. You would not believe the amount of disdain Twitter, Inc, has for its users. What's cute is that Twitter has always been a walled-garden, since its founding. We have better alternatives now. Don't matter though, because there's a centralization/decentralization pendulum in big picture computing trends. If you skate to where the puck is going to be (not where it's been), we're in the middle of a swing to the decentralization side. Look at W3C recommendation ActivityPub (a specification for the federated social web with a vibrant and fun ecosystem of communities). You may know of Mastodon, its biggest implementation. Or, for the free speech* types out there, just host a WordPress site where you agree with the terms of the AUP.