When Elon Musk bought Twitter it was the beginning of the end of the platform because there's no such thing as free speech when one capricious sack of dicks is the arbiter of what can and can't be said and he's a bit of a Nazi-loving freak (just a bit). Aside from all of that, he's a greedy weirdo that can't ever be satisfied by the billions he already has.
It took a while but I got away from Twitter, I'd had three active-ish accounts there and the last to go was my baseball one.
But I moved to BlueSky and made the best of starting over again, going from a couple thousand followers to a couple hundred and engagement dropping by 70-90%. And it isn't like BlueSky's an ideal new haven, its got some serious flaws that are being ignored, its got a reporting problem, its got a labeling problem, its got a shitty milquetoast centrist problem.
To that end, I had an abrasive weekend dealing with Zionists and other genocidal scumbags and pushed back hard enough on them that BlueSky has applied a label of Rude to my account which severely limits its reach, exposure and engagement, effectively killing the account without actually banning me. Which means I am once again looking for a social media home.
Looking at supposed alternatives and keep hitting the same problems. Threads is owned by Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, that's a non-starter. Other platforms suffer from other issues including size and access and being owned by greedy fuckbags like Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg. Mastodon has some promise but is fractured and very empty. Reddit is another rich asshole's playground so its out. Discord is just a big fucking mess and makes zero sense to me
Of course, if there WERE a digital public square it would be dominated by the bombastic sack of ignorance, hubris and self-absorption that is Donald Trump because this stupid, stupid country handed him the keys again.
Unfortunately, for the present time being, we're fucked and there's nobody coming to save us.
