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