Back in the news net days, there used to be a parable about a Berkeley hot tub. The owner would give out the code to people, and it would be a good party with a rotating cast of characters for a while, until eventually a few people ruined the party. Then the code would change, and a different crew would start coming through.<p>Pre-Elon, it seemed that Twitter was doing a pretty good run of keeping a single social network running for a long time. As has Facebook.<p>But for lots of dedicated communities, the new owner has such direct contempt for them and has focused on ruining the party.<p>Bluesky will work for now. Already science Twitter is having a huge renaissance now that links are no longer suppressed and discussion has lower noise:<p><a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-151688877" rel="nofollow">https://substack.com/home/post/p-151688877</a>