Excuse the gross comparison, but if a serial public pee-er moves to the same area I live in and pees wantonly all over the place, the answer isn't "just move somewhere without people peeing in public", it's to take some action and complain loudly about the fact I don't like that someone is peeing all over where I live without any repercussion.
Elon Musk has too much in the game to both participate on and run Twitter. The bans in the last weeks are far too convenient to simply be the new moderation staff finding abhorrent persons when there are reporters, parodists, and just general Elon Musk objectors being banned from Twitter without any oversight or reason. Mastodon is not a good alternative, as nice as it might be; the on-boarding and the concept is too much for most people, and ultimately moving to Mastodon is just conceding Twitter to Elon Musk, when openly defying and degrading all stores of value that Elon can influence are a real way to enact change.
Already the biggest Tesla investors are calling Elon Musk out as detrimental to Tesla stock because of his performance on/with Twitter. I do not desire punishment or pain for anyone, but I also don't want someone to be able to manipulate public discourse like I understand Elon Musk is currently doing with Twitter (for my perception, the bans are just far too specific and vague; the tweets and their content are completely non-offensive and the rulings from Twitter are far too specific to be afterthoughts of safety)
Elon Musk is not a great person by any means, he just has money; money should not be a reason to elevate an opinion above another by any stretch of the imagination. The sooner that the world accepts this, the better, and if it means that Elon Musk's valuation tanks, then so be it.
Well there you go. There was a user (jakelazaroff) minutes ago replied her claiming with an anecdote that '...many of the people I follow have talked about moving to Mastodon' as if that is any rebuttal of my comment and he ends up deleting it altogether.
This is exactly how you know that the techies here and the media are driving this false narrative using panic and fear tactics after they realised that Twitter did not fall over as claimed weeks after since it is not been admitted that this article did not age well.
In reality, Twitter has been more alive and still running with its 200M+ daily active users.
I had to listen to the praise orgy for years, I'm sure it'll be a long hate orgy as well. It's just easier to notice when the orgy isn't too your fetish.
