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I'm increasingly of the opinion that Twitter will suffer catastrophic failure before EOY, possibly much sooner. TLDR: I recommend Mastodon, and would look forward to seeing all my follows and followers there.
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@anng27 Again, totally understood. As for me, it seems like the computer-industry half of my social network has mostly landed there, along with a growing chunk of the remainder.
My best guess is that you will already find a lot of familiar names there.
@anng27 Agreed that Discord is okay for siloed community chat, but I wouldn't want to use it beyond that.
Yeah, I use the term "fediverse" as an umbrella but do specifically mean Mastodon as the closest analog to Twitter.
@anng27 Totally understood. My take is that the fediverse is the current best choice for "agoric" style social network, despite — no question about it — many flaws.
So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.
I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.