Why is Twitter so important for people to freak out about? I can understand its founder inflating its value to a "public good" but it is really just a web app that common people mostly use for shitposting. Why are abstract and expansive concepts like Freedom of Speech being brought into discussing corporate politics of one goddamn company that owns one dying fad of a social network?
Putin aside the dubious claims of everyone involved just wanting a multipolar world: from a technical point of view isn't a "decentralised and open Twitter" mostly a solved problem?<p>With the kind means the new owners have access to, how long could it take for it to become a polished and heavily moderated Mastodon instance if they really wanted to?
TL;DR: Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk are secretly planning to destroy democracy and make Putin the supreme world leader.<p>Is this parody? I hope it's parody, I would hate it if the author was actually this crazy. Hilarious either way