I honestly can't tell if it's just a collective expiration date for a culture of wealthy incompetence, or if someone's been manipulating powerful idiots, but it almost feels like there's a coordinated effort to stir an abandonment of corporate platforms.
These platforms can be used to organize protests and things like that. It isn't like nobody would have a reason to want something like Twitter gone. There are the conspiracy theories that Musk was paid by the Saudis or whoever to take it down. Is that likely? Honestly the guy seems like a self centered twat, if not a full blown narcissist, and I can't picture him putting on a public spectacle like this intentionally for show because he is making himself look incredibly stupid but I've been wrong before.
If it was just Musk, it would be a lot easier to chalk up to one idiot. But with so many idiots acting in concert? That sounds like somebody's in their ears. Probably without them realizing it.
I would assume the real surges would be in bluesky and threads. Out of the frying pan and into the other frying pan.
People don't really understand Mastodon and federation (nor do I blame them for that), but those details are now much, much less in your face than they were when Elon bought Twitter. Mastodon's reliability and usefulness has also improved a lot since Elon bought Twitter. Nothing else works quite like sending a few hundred thousand people your way to stress test your product (and some of them are even nice enough to give money, too!)
Another article I read theorized that Threads launching might have increased the awareness of ActivityPub and softened peoples resistance to the "Mastodon is too hard, not worth trying to figure out" messaging in the media. Who knows though, and there's probably not a single answer anyway.
Esketit fediverse let’s gooooo
Good to see. X marks the death
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