OMFG nevermind he's a damned fool.

Why would he possibly do that?

Interesting. I hope this ends up being a pull request or somesuch on activitypub, rather than a standalone competing standard. They're right that migration is a problem on activitypub atm, though I'm not sure there's a good way to build it into the protocol. Maybe have a server tag a couple of others as trusted backups?

This was downvoted but refers to the second part of parent's comment:

> a bunch of ex-twitter folks boot up a crowdfunded mastodon instance.

Don't know about crowdfunded, but this instance is for ex-twitter employees.

But he was at the helm of Twitter for how long? He had the opportunity to pursue all those things. Musk and Darsey’s text message thread was just two billionaires convincing themselves they’re as smart as they think they are.

> Because he appears to be pragmatic and understands the benefits of open standards.

But only after becoming rich on closed-standard Twitter while also enacting artificial barriers for third-party clients along the way?