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I know we called Twitter a hellsite and most of us deactivated multiple times but I'm just thinking about #repealthe8th and #hometovote and even the Super Mario red beret thread and how these things couldn't have kicked off on a different social media website.
Even if Mastodon takes off, we have lost something. Or rather, we have had something stolen from us.
@darach yeah I'm trying to process my grief. Twitter was like an extended family for me. Gutted that Musk is tearing it apart 
@TarynDeVere @darach it genuinely is a sad loss but it really does seem that Twitter, as we knew it, is gone.
I’m optimistic though.
The Internet as a social concept, as well as a set of technologies, has a remarkable ability to just route around problems and hopefully, that’s what we are seeing.
Platforms rise, and they fall, but it’s still about people forming communities and a vast chaotic network of interconnections, based on ingenuously simple open protocols.