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I’m it sure it’s true. My feed right this instant:

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So what’s really going on here is Musk wants to turn Twitter into a payment platform, and Apple is reminding them that all payments via the iOS app will incur a 30% surcharge, like they do for everyone.

So Musk is going to war with them.

The problem I have is that I both hate Musk and Apple’s 30% surcharge. It truly is ridiculous and limits innovation.

Can they both somehow lose this battle?

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Thanks for this, convinced me to finally have a look, and the link you posted has quite a few interesting channels, if ‘channels’ is the right word.

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Shocking that when your company is based in California that most of your political donations end up being to Democrats.

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So… donating to the party of your choice is against free speech? I thought money was speech? I’m so confused now.

Also, the tweet says “Apple’s donations” but the chart says “employee’s donations”. So, I guess Apple’s decisions are made by the employees and not the executives? That seems unusual. Maybe they could fire all the executives and save a lot of money!

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Narrator: But wait, it gets better…

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Watching his CHUDs explain how Tesla is “different” makes you want Putin to launch everything.

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I’d be willing to sacrifice Twitter to do away with Citizens United, lol

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I’d be willing to sacrifice Twitter just to see it die

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Beau on Twitter and replacements.

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Honestly the biggest issue for people is that no one is sure where to go.

If there was one definite place, or even two, it wouldn’t be a big deal.
But there are like 4 or 5 and most people aren’t sure which they’re going with anyway.

For example if Twitter dies, I’ll miss a lot of the Law Twitter people I follow and am in some cases followed by.
I know where like… none of them will end up, if anywhere at all.
I’m sure I’ll find Popehat if he pops up someplace, but the rest of them could just vanish into the ether forever.

Which is in the “well that sucks” category for me, but for people in more tight-knit groups I can see it being a scary thing.
Beau’s points are good ones. Great ones, even. People who change their pictures and names are basically impossible to find or recognize, even within say Twitter. I’ve had a person I followed get banned and then remake an account, but until you happen to stumble onto them again through a mutual, they might as well have died or disappeared forever. Which is probably fairly traumatic if you’re close with them and especially if you aren’t super tech savvy.

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Go to twitter, type in “mastodon” into the search and click on the “people you follow” radio dial.

EDIT: This search will also bring up replies where they said they don’t have a mastodon account, and the one on mastodon is fake - which is good to know as well!

@JonRowe Popehat hasn’t really been active, even though he immediately got 25K followers to follow him when he created the account. If just ~50 of the high profile accounts like popehat moved, it would be an exodus.

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For most of them, they’re in the “I’m riding this thing to the bottom” category.

Which, so am I, but when it does explode, well that’ll be too late.

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Yea, it’s like Google+ all over again.

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Probably more efficient to set Elmo on fire.

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The problem with all the Twitter replacement candidates so far is that none of them are Twitter. Some have a few better features, but all of them are deficient in spots, or have a hurdle to getting onboard. Part of Twitter’s success is that there is almost no friction in creating a starting account and following some folks.