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September 20, 2023, 3:46pm
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–aaaaaand I just deleted my Xhitter account.
Casting about now for a really good alternative. Have been lurking on a bunch of Mastodon instances. It’s… complicated… and the people I was following aren’t all locatable in the Fediverse. Yet.
My time as moderator here has convinced me thusly: Mastodon will never achieve any sort of real success at replacing the Twitters or Facebooks of the world, for two reasons: 1) the same reason Twitter can’t get rid of Nazis, and 2) Elon Musk (or well, folks like him.)
There are too many people who genuinely don’t care about what they post or what others think. Nazis post on Twitter because the odds that their words will ever have consequences are slim to none, but the very nature of twitter a…
Thanks @orenwolf for calling it early, and often.
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