I have been following the mess that is Twitter for many years. It has been a dumpster fire for a LONG time. It is now finally getting clean up it needs, getting rid of the pornography, child exploitation and the actual organization of calls to violence against individuals and groups is far far better than what it was previously. Also, Elon exposing the corruption within the ranks of Twitter prior to his takeover has been fantastic. Good to have real transparency. As far as his somewhat questionable tactics for his intimidate actions, looking at the totality, I think it was necessary as there was a high risk of infrastructure destruction and destruction of communication and files if bad actors were allowed to remain in front of the Twitter admin control.

I largely disagree with the takes on the direction of Twitter. I don’t think Elon Musk is making all the right moves, but it is a net gain vs what was controlling it previously. Free exchange of information and allowing the exposing of ideas to be cleansed by the light is the best for everyone.

All that said, I still agree that you can’t put all your eggs in the Twitter basket. I have never believe building your brand or business on any platform alone is a good idea. I think Mastadon or something like it is the future. I would like to see Twitter just be another instance on the fediverse.

Truly, I have a lot more hope now with Twitter, more than ever. So, as far as I am concerned, things are looking up.

It’s not a cracked opinion. It’s pretty well established that Twitter has fell off the deep end. One thing that was not mentioned on DL about the migration of users to Mastodon was the abuse of the reporting system. Something that has been an ongoing issue on Twitter for a long time. As exemplified by Eugene Rochko’s post on a false report. In this example, some one wrongly flagged a post as being a “dog whistle”. Generally a dog whistle is something only dogs hear. In the case of linguistic dog whistles, racists are the dogs. Fortunately for Mastodon, the mods know how to accurately spot these things when deranged leftists see racism in everything.

Let us not forget that Wil Wheaton left twitter because he didn’t like Alex Jones being allowed to stay on, and promptly was banned from Mastodon by a mob of #metoo SJWs. [Twitter rival Mastodon isn’t safe from online mobs either - The Verge]

Twitter a dumpster fire for many reasons, AND we must also be honest that Mastodon has it’s own problems and is not immune to socio-political pressures either. The two will rise and fall based on their merits and the core user base.