Except it's not, as the article goes on to explain: he does not want attention, he's not part of the attention economy (any more, as he assures us), he just wan

Except it's not, as the article goes on to explain: he does not want attention, he's not part of the attention economy (any more, as he assures us), he just wants to hang out with people like him, of which there are "thousands, not millions". And the attention economy is "threatened" because "thousands" want to do something else? With these kinds of posts I always get the feeling that the people leaving Twitter (leaving, you hear me, I'M LEAVING) and swearing how they never wanted any of that attention economy thing and being the center of attention is the least of all things they'd ever want ... spend a lot of time being offended when someone suggests that their new favorite community will not replace Twitter. Twitter is no longer part of their identity, now Mastodon is, and therefore Twitter is old and terrible and people who don't think Mastodon is the greatest thing are doing it for bad reasons, and they must explain to everyone why that is. Because they must reassure themselves that they are right?