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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.
@darach ita definitely been stolen from us! Even in last few days I'm noticing so much vitriol. Aw remember the Matt Le Blanc memes. 
@darach things change, social media platforms like twitter, Facebook never 'belong' to the people using it, and creating content. That's the big different in open source, not for profit. We 'used' twitter in those instances for positive change, as other countries and communities have done. But we were always sitting in someone else's farm, without tenant rights.
@darach absolutely, even if this works out it's not going to be the same. Definitely a loss
I'm a recent (on-route) migrant, too.
I'm not sure we have had something stolen. I think we've just seen a transit of power from a benevolent & largely ineffectual dictator to an ideologue making loads realise the structure of Twitter: a top-down information freemarket. When the market works for you, cool. When the dictator's benevolent, fine.
When it isn't/doesn't, tho...
Doesn't diminish what happened on there - much of which was impressive BECAUSE it happened there!