Twitter was never a utopia, but I can’t see Musk’s purchase doing anything good (if anyone can engineer a social network that runs over some pedestrians and then catches fire, it’s him).

It’s pretty clear where he stands politically, and as a result I’ve already seen a lot of celebrating bigots and trending slurs as the worst people feel emboldened by this.

The question is, how bad does it need to get before we all jump ship? Trump’s inevitable return? When Twitter becomes the next 4chan? Or the next Kiwifarms?

More than anything I think we’re now reaping the rewards of moving all our discourse to closed platforms owned and directed by the whims of billionaires.