Oh I didn't think you were calling me crazy.

I've just been told that by many Americans who are actively losing their minds trying to balance their car payment, insurance, recent medical disaster, loss of income, etc, all while spending 6+ hours a day on whatever particular algorithically designed and manicured for them slop content app telling them who to be angry at and what items to buy to give them the desired personality.

I very much agree the fediverse is very important...

But I think that Elon actually primarily bought Twitter out of a massive, massive sense of insecurity.

He needs to be widely loved and adored and seen as 'a cool guy', so he just bought the platform so that he could be in control of his own personal adulation/worship machine.

In my opinion at least, everything else is secondary to, is an outgrowth of, is a cynical tactic that may shift at any time... all to primarily prevent his own ego from collapsing.