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Maybe, but I think enough of the 'cool kids' are exiting now and the tide is turning, but not there yet. I've got nothing but my own feelings here to go on, but
by Balgair 4y ago
Maybe, but I think enough of the 'cool kids' are exiting now and the tide is turning, but not there yet. I've got nothing but my own feelings here to go on, but the 'witch-hunting' of blocking mastodon addresses, shadowbanning, and other petty things makes it feel like you're a 'rebel' to get away from Elon. 'Rebel' stuff is what 'cool kids' do, and so when you leave after you've been 'witch-hunted', that means you're 'cool.' So, as the 'cool' people go, others are going to want to follow them.
- berniedurfee 4y agoI just don’t see another platform for people to move off to en masse. I don’t think it’s Mastodon. I do think there’s a big opening for a competitor to enter, but Twitter has incredible inertia. The best play would be to pay the top 10 Twitterers to move over to some new platform exclusively. Drag a mass of people with them to prime the siphon. That’s not cheap, but possible. Maybe some other billionaire will find it just to troll musk. I think we’re (us humans) stuck with Twitter and Elon for a long time still.