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Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky. (iandunt.substack.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let me get this straight:

  1. Person A makes a social network
  2. People flock to it
  3. Person A sells the social network to person B
  4. Networks does a 180, destroying communitie; people outraged.
  5. Same person A makes a social network
  6. People flock to it.
  7. [surely we can predict what is going to happen here, right?]
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

This doesn't really change your point at all, but I remember reading the tech news surrounding the Twitter sale to Musk as it was happening. If memory serves, Musk literally made the $420/share purchase offer as a joke, a joke that several lawsuits were filed to decide it was a serious and legally binding offer.

He memed his way into owning Twitter against his will, and then burned down everything to assuage his ego. But because he's a goddamn billionaire there are literally no repercussions.