forked from cadey/xesite
twitter, mastodon, rasengan
Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@christine.website>
This commit is contained in:
parent
05135edcbe
commit
ad2f5c739f
|
@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
|
|||
---
|
||||
title: "Twitter, Mastodon and The Parable of rasengan"
|
||||
date: 2022-04-25
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- twitter
|
||||
- reaction
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
So a lot of things happened today. The threat that Elon Musk made to
|
||||
buy Twitter seems to have been true. As I write this, my current
|
||||
understanding is that the Twitter board of directors is in the process
|
||||
of accepting the offer that Elon Musk to buy the company.
|
||||
|
||||
<xeblog-conv name="Cadey" mood="coffee">This was not on my bingo card
|
||||
for 2022. I'm starting to think that I got a dud bingo card. I was
|
||||
hoping that "Alien Invasion" would win out but it looks like that
|
||||
won't be the case yet. Damn.</xeblog-conv>
|
||||
|
||||
I genuinely have no idea how I should be reacting to this news. I
|
||||
spend a lot of time on Twitter. It's a lot of how I talk with people,
|
||||
network in the tech community and generally shitpost. I do so much
|
||||
idle shitposting on Twitter that it would probably count for a lot of
|
||||
the non-work written word I produce on a weekly basis.
|
||||
|
||||
I'm really not sure what I feel about this, but the feelings that I am
|
||||
getting remind me of [what happened to
|
||||
freenode](/blog/series/freenode). A while ago someone I follow on
|
||||
Twitter made a tweet that said something like:
|
||||
|
||||
> Elon Musk is to Twitter as rasengan is to freenode
|
||||
|
||||
<xeblog-conv name="Mara" mood="hacker">For context: rasengan is the
|
||||
person that single-handedly destroyed freenode by apparently buying a
|
||||
worthless holding company and then inciting a lot of
|
||||
drama. For more information, check out the book Closed
|
||||
Projects.</xeblog-conv>
|
||||
|
||||
I have made my book [Closed
|
||||
Projects](/blog/closed-projects-2022-03-24) free for the next week.
|
||||
This contains my moods, reactions and emotions as I was processing
|
||||
everything falling apart around me. I feel this may help you
|
||||
understand the emotions that you get watching this shitshow unfold
|
||||
with Twitter.
|
||||
|
||||
For a direct link to the sale page, click
|
||||
[here](https://itch.io/s/69916/elon-bought-twitter-sale). I will
|
||||
donate proceeds from this sale to charity. If you choose to send me a
|
||||
couple bucks for my book, I will donate them to the [Orca
|
||||
Conservancy](https://www.orcaconservancy.org/).
|
||||
|
||||
I am also on Mastodon at
|
||||
[@cadey@pony.social](https://pony.social/@cadey). Should something
|
||||
happen to Twitter such that I can't participate there anymore, I will
|
||||
be on Mastodon. If Twitter really starts falling apart, I will
|
||||
probably be a lot more active on Mastodon. And probably writing a lot
|
||||
more.
|
||||
|
||||
Let's hope things turn out well.
|
Loading…
Reference in New Issue