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Truth of the matter is before Elon ever gets Twitter another tech giant will buy it without hesitation.

They should sell to him because all he is doing is either buying Twitter at fair value or doing pre-launch hype for a competitor which will include the accumulation of other platforms including Trump’s Truth social, shit like substack, which he can easily get for less than 10 billion, Mastadon, etc.

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You can't buy mastodon, the software is licensed AGPL and the network is run by it's users. You could buy stewardship of the software and the trademark if it's registered, like google did with android, but you never own GPL licensed software, only the users do.

I think you still understand my point. This guy roughly says if there’s no electric car, build your own. If there is no reusable rocket, build your own. If big tech is stifling free speech …

All successful people continuously repeat what worked for them in the past.

I get your point, I just figured I'd point out your misunderstanding of mastodon specifically, to you so you can better understand it. It isn't a just a twitter alternative.

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