twitter, mastodon, rasengan

Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@christine.website>

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+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.