As is only right, people are on the platform’s burial ground (i.e., the bird app itself) to give its eulogy.
Both threads revealed long strings of Twitter’s greatest hits, the small moments that have, since 2006, made the site what it is. And while many celebrated the Twitter That Was, others—the ones who weren’t suggesting alternative platforms—spoke of ways to use the site’s existing functionality to keep the trolls at bay.
It’s these moments people are most afraid of losing. Because even as Musk talks of wanting Twitter to be a , he’s also got some hairy ideas about content moderation, ones that could dampen, or outright drive out, the voices vital to the platform., bot watchers saw an uptick in right-wing accounts in April after the Musk deal made headlines.
. If it happens—something that may still be a few years off—it “might give rise to the next iteration of the social internet somewhere else.” Digital culture remains in flux, as it has to, and there’s no need to stay on a platform that’s already a nightmare. Still, in this moment, it’s hard to hear the requiem being sung on Twitter and not want to sing along.
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