It's kind of interesting and frustrating to see how the whole twitter drama is screwing with my mental model of the "culture wars" in the US. I'd really, reall

It's kind of interesting and frustrating to see how the whole twitter drama is screwing with my mental model of the "culture wars" in the US. I'd really, really thought that principled conservatives would look at Mastodon (actually, any open social media platform) as an an opportunity to exercise their free speech. I would think they would say "oh, look, we don't need Twitter anymore. Here we can have our places, no one can censor us, no one can try to find any bullshit excuse to silence our side. Let's use it. We can make Twitter irrelevant." Did any of that happen? No. Of course not. All of the conservatives are just "glad" that Elon is taking over. The whole thing has just been a fight over control of the corporate channel. When the Babylon Bee got kicked out of Twitter, I thought it was stupid. I reached out to the Dillon brothers, asked if they were interested in putting together a Mastodon instance, or at least integrating their site with some ActivityPub feed. No response. Now, every other tweet can be summarized as some variation of them sucking Elon's dick. Then, this week. I read that Claire Lehmann and Sam Harris both quit Twitter. Both were part of the "Intellectual Dark Web" that rose to some prominence (along the same time Jordan Peterson got popular). Why were they leaving Twitter? The answer is "TDS". Reinstating Trump was too much for them. Really? Of all the things that has been happening at Twitter (and Big Tech in General), this is what drives them away? Are they going to Mastodon? Apparently not, because that's only the place where "the libs" go and "we can't own them there". It's just ridiculous.