I am not ignoring that. Why would you assume I’m ignoring that?
I am aware of that and I am, look at me in the eye, 100% meaning what I’m saying.
There is by any and all framings around this case, zero reason anybody should be on Twitter anymore. It was a perfect death spiral. And there were competitors coming at it ranging from a TON of funding and closed ecosystems (hi there, Threads, someone remembered you exist) to fully open standards.
Also, spare me the back strain of limboing under the increasingly low bar. I was there on Masto when the Twitter implosion happened and nobody was out there lowering expectations and saying it was disingenuous or unrealistic to expect fedi would capitalize. It was a feeding frenzy and a massive party and people were drawing up plans for how to host 200 million people because scalability was a concern. And then that same hype came to Threads theoretically having hundreds of millions of people who happened to have an Instagram account, and then to Bluesky actually building some stable userbase in the old school web 2.0 startup fashion.
And they all stalled. It is not disingenuous to observe that. It is revisionist to pretend that people expected them, and Masto specifically to stall. That was not what happened. Until people started infighting about whether the tone of the place supported activists or minorities or whether federating with Threads was convenient or starting a blood feud with Bluesky because that’s more fun than losing a fight to Twitter, I suppose.
I hate the navel gazing and the excuses and the patting oneself in the back for a good failure. I am so tired of people choosing ineffectual self-righteousness over genuine impact.
Not as tired as I am of normies refusing to drop their bad online habits, for the record. Twitter continuing to exist at all, even if no competition was available, would be a travesty. But the self-serving arguments about why it’s cool for fedi to be unpopular or the endless purity tests in the relationships with Threads and Bluesky are exhausting and depressing as hell.
I am not ignoring that. Why would you assume I’m ignoring that?
I am aware of that and I am, look at me in the eye, 100% meaning what I’m saying.
There is by any and all framings around this case, zero reason anybody should be on Twitter anymore. It was a perfect death spiral. And there were competitors coming at it ranging from a TON of funding and closed ecosystems (hi there, Threads, someone remembered you exist) to fully open standards.
Also, spare me the back strain of limboing under the increasingly low bar. I was there on Masto when the Twitter implosion happened and nobody was out there lowering expectations and saying it was disingenuous or unrealistic to expect fedi would capitalize. It was a feeding frenzy and a massive party and people were drawing up plans for how to host 200 million people because scalability was a concern. And then that same hype came to Threads theoretically having hundreds of millions of people who happened to have an Instagram account, and then to Bluesky actually building some stable userbase in the old school web 2.0 startup fashion.
And they all stalled. It is not disingenuous to observe that. It is revisionist to pretend that people expected them, and Masto specifically to stall. That was not what happened. Until people started infighting about whether the tone of the place supported activists or minorities or whether federating with Threads was convenient or starting a blood feud with Bluesky because that’s more fun than losing a fight to Twitter, I suppose.
I hate the navel gazing and the excuses and the patting oneself in the back for a good failure. I am so tired of people choosing ineffectual self-righteousness over genuine impact.
Not as tired as I am of normies refusing to drop their bad online habits, for the record. Twitter continuing to exist at all, even if no competition was available, would be a travesty. But the self-serving arguments about why it’s cool for fedi to be unpopular or the endless purity tests in the relationships with Threads and Bluesky are exhausting and depressing as hell.