diff --git a/blog/twitter-2022-04-25.markdown b/blog/twitter-2022-04-25.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..378e4ba --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/twitter-2022-04-25.markdown @@ -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. + +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. + +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 + +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. + +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.