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I only spectate on Twitter. Much more so since Russia invaded Ukraine. You know what all those accounts that are focused on the war are doing? They're tweeting like nothing has happened.

They're tweeting away and millions are following and commenting and retweeting, completely indifferent to Musk and the takeover.

I'm sincerely happy Mastodon is seeing some growth. But I think that growth is coming from a minority of users and that the bulk of Twitter users simply don't care.

Correct. It’s left wing Parler/Truth or whatever the right wingers exited to. I’m hoping Twitter continues to become a place where the wingnuts on both sides feel unwelcome and go off to their little ghettos to be with their little groups of diehards. For everyone else life goes on.

Also for people that do leave, there will be vacuums created and new influencers will rise into those spaces.

Apparently they are noticing in Ukraine

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2022/11/ukraine-gettin...

Odd how "good day for Mastodon" tends to manifest as the total unavailability of well-known Mastodon instances.

And for Twitter. Free speech deniers leave and Twitter becomes more open and divers. I like it.

Why is Musk refusing to reinstate Alex Jones?

I don’t know, ask him.