I Can't Believe It's Not Twitter! imitation social network spread.

And here's the other thing I try to visualize:
Matter - both dark and "normal" - falling like water into these gravitational canyons that we see as giant strings, while the empty spaces in between expand and accelerate. The dynamics of this thing are mind-breaking.

Thanks, I Hate It

This reminds me of something...

What are we going to build?
A PAYWALL!
Who's going to pay for it?
META!

The best people. Just terrific hackers or coders or whatever they're called. Biggly.

Damaged narcissistic minds, misfiring alike on all goddamned cylinders.

I can agree with all you are saying, while also agreeing with the stance that Meta's presence is corrosive by its' very nature.
There will be a sugar rush up front, diabetes down the road.

EDIT: They WILL find a way to insert themselves more severely if and when this thing grows.

Scrunge

Whatever blackout/boycott/migration happens with Reddit, this should go double for Twitter, that's another place I silently dropped like a rock and have never visited again.

When something happens with Ukraine and I feel compelled to dive into it, I've used Nitter, which mirrors the Twitter content but Musk and his right-wing idiocy gets no goddamned clicks and traffic from me anymore.

Back in the late-80s or early-90s, I remember OMNI Magazine ran an interview with a researcher of veracity in science publications as a topic, don't remember anything but a whopper of a quote in which he said that around a third of science papers fudge the numbers, even if just a little bit, to make them fit the hypotheses.

Now there's a The Onion headline if I've ever seen one.

Try Nitter:
https://nitter.net/search?f=tweets&q=%23Prigozhin&cursor=DAADDAABCgABFzW1SryXwAcKAAIXNbUKN1bAAQAIAAIAAAACCAADAAAAAAgABAAAAAAKAAUXNbVLqwAnEAoABhc1tUuq_9jwAAA

I'm going to say what you did, more diplomatically:

While I don't condone extortion via hacking or any other means, I acknowledge that Reddit and its' dysfunctional, incompetent corporate culture - with Huffman at the top - brought this development upon themselves.

In one of those 70s Fat Albert episodes, I think it was Rudy who one day showed up wearing a jacket of "genuine imitation leather". That term has stuck with me for decades.