But what of all those who so publicly stated they were leaving eXtwitter for Bluesky and Mastadon?*
From Bloomberg, May 5:
- Twitter co-founder’s decentralized network has yet to take off
- Dorsey’s apparent endorsement of X came after regret over sale
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. It suggested an apparent warming of relations between X’s owner and Dorsey, who had posted on Bluesky a year ago that “it all went south” after Musk’s takeover and radical transformation of Twitter.
don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights.
— jack (@jack) May 4, 2024
defend them yourself using freedom technology.
(you’re on one)
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*From the introduction to an October 2023 post:
Things I Did Not Know About Twitter
I am not on Twitter, having been counseled that the platform would offer me far too many opportunities to make a damn fool of myself.
I do however keep tabs on it as an opinion/editorial channel and as a crude measure of the zeitgeist. And since Mr. Musk's purchase of Twitter I observed many users state they were leaving Twitter and asked a young lady who knows about such things what was going on.
Apparently there are two memes that are used as explanations: 1) Twitter is not an airport, there is no requirement to announce your departure. and 2) the people who say they are leaving are attention whores trying to convince the world they are important. Interestingly many don't actually leave Twitter or do leave and are back in days/weeks. They just want to bleat: "you're sure going to miss me when I'm gone." The meme attached to this is: "How can we miss you if you won't go away?"
Yesterday she sent me a thread that is a bit less lighthearted....