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It's Not Yesterday Anymore by Dan Sinker
My hope is that we won't simply replace one monolithic platform with another. That we'll take this disruption in routine as an opportunity to further disrupt a status quo that has needed disruption for some time. That we'll try new things, build new things, find new ways to connect that don't simply replicate the patterns of the past but instead move toward a future that feels better for everyone.
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OK this thing where techbros like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried are defended as "just kids": we are not doing this they are not getting the benefit of the doubt as if they just made oopsies and they get to fail forward like nothing happened. We're just not. You do not get to screw up people's communities and/or their lives and get a pat on the head with a "better luck next time sweety". FFS these are adults.

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Within the last few days or so, I've been seeing tweets via email from a somewhat vocal contingent of blind people on Twitter proclaiming that Twitter killing its API is not a big deal because the native Twitter app is fine. I wonder if it's worth my time to do a write-up in which I explain in detail why this just isn't the case or if I should just leave them to it.

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Elon Musk Is Running Scared From Mastodon; Cuts Off The Best Tool For Finding Your Twitter Followers There by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

People keep claiming that Mastodon isn’t scaring Elon Musk, but it’s pretty clear that he’s worried about the exodus of people from Twitter. With his bizarrely short-sighted decision to end free access to the Twitter API, driving developers over to Mastodon, some people realized that the various tools that people use to find their Twitter […]