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PG just announced he is moving to Mastodon[0][1].

This policy can be rolled back, but the trust is eroding, and it's much harder to rebuild. People will be more and more afraid of spending time&effort to cultivate an audience on Twitter.

For me, it'll require a leadership/ownership change, which is not that likely?

PG can do it, his audience will follow.

Not everyone has that luxury. Especially for those who are at the beginning, and need to be where the community is.

But I see this as a powerful signal of things to come.

[0]: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604556563338887168

[1]: https://mas.to/@paulg



Smart man. Paul has carried water for Elon in the past when few would have done so publicly and for him to call this is a big milestone.


I actually think leadership/ownership change is pretty likely. With the network shrinking instead of growing it's less likely by the day that Twitter is going to be able to make payments on the ridiculous debt Elon saddled it with. At some points the banks will takeover to salvage what they can.


I haven't thought about that angle, it makes sense. But I'm not sure it'll happen in the near future.




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