DISPATCHES FROM THE BLACK HOLE #2: On Social Media and Emerging Mastodons
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Have you been on Twitter lately? There’s more than a little ‘last days of Rome’ vibe about the place this last week. We all know why. Elon Musk finally sealed the deal to buy Twitter, confirming he has more money than sense, and has systematically set about imploding it. Free speech rants, blocking parody accounts, trying to create a new blue tick income stream - the list goes on. This is probably only the tip of a very large iceberg too. And people, as you might expect, have been leaving in droves, or at least weighing up their options.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLACK HOLE #2: On Social Media and Emerging Mastodons
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLACK HOLE #2: On Social…
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLACK HOLE #2: On Social Media and Emerging Mastodons
Have you been on Twitter lately? There’s more than a little ‘last days of Rome’ vibe about the place this last week. We all know why. Elon Musk finally sealed the deal to buy Twitter, confirming he has more money than sense, and has systematically set about imploding it. Free speech rants, blocking parody accounts, trying to create a new blue tick income stream - the list goes on. This is probably only the tip of a very large iceberg too. And people, as you might expect, have been leaving in droves, or at least weighing up their options.