I’m sure the Saudis who bankrolled The Muskrat’s purchase of Xitter had nothing to do with that.

A great situation to point to when someone asks why decentralized social media is important

If you want further verification of that, look at where the money that he used to purchase Twitter came from.

It came from the Middle East, it came from oppressive regimes with wealth inequalities equivalent to the difference between a newborn baby that has to pay the hospital bill for its own birth and Elon musk.

It came from areas where people who were unhappy with the extreme laws that they were forced to live under used Twitter to organize so that they could vote and push for laws that brought them greater equality in life.

The fact that Elon is also using Twitter to fragment the American population and prevent them from unifying in a vote or having a single location where everyone can go and talk about the things that they are interested in is secondary to that but also serves the purposes of Elon who profited immensely from the Republican tax cuts from 2016 to 2020.

Elon went from a net worth of $11 billion dollars to $70 billion dollars in 4 years, and from $70 billion in 2020 to $219 billion dollars today, because the tax breaks that Trump instituted during his presidency have not been repealed or adjusted.

Some governmental entities have started setting up their own Mastodon servers. I think that’s really the way to go. There’s no reason emergency services should depend on Musk’s goodwill and technical competence.

Ours sends normal texts through the emergency system. Works ok.

Websites are going to know not to embed tweets anymore

They'll forget within two weeks.

Who the hell doesn't just use a fucking screenshot?

Which of them goes back so far?

I doubt the pictures were deleted or anything, they just fucked up the link shortener.

On the bright side if you go and twat now "screw you future historians trying to figure out stuff" you might manage to annoy someone in a thousand years.

Hmm come to think of it. People should be make random references right now to really mess with the future. "I saw Zoey today, her brother John is called the Messiah by some"

Pronounced "shitter".

Back then Twitter was much more open and there were places like the Library of Congress archiving everything. Things with historical significance will live on.