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Twitter is a microphone connected to a mixer owned and controlled by Elon Musk.

If you understand how microphones and mixers work, you also understand why you can’t “stay and fight.”

Will Palmer

@aral the problem is not merely the type of space that Twitter happens to create, it's the structure which allows such spaces to be created. Even if Elon Musk's views, policies, and capacity, lined up exactly with what I wanted, then Twitter is a space which is intrinsically and intentionally built to allow the desires of specific stakeholders to be enacted. We should always be wary of systems which rely on those stakeholders being good actors.

@aral @wpalmer My continuing problem with Tw’ is that it remains popular, therefore influential. So I’ll continue to share truths in the face of misinformation, promote charitable causes, and campaigns. But that’s all - For anything else I ask myself ‘is this promoting the platform?’

@aral @wpalmer I have other problem that Tw’ was a significant outlet for self- promotion. So now if I share anything of my own work, it takes this form - a promo to find more elsewhere