@davidaugust the concept of a public digital square should be treated as a utility. A public utility. Like Mastodon :)

The minute a boneheaded guy like Elon puts his mitts on it, it’s over. He has too much power over it now that he owns it.

Remember before he bought Twitter the free online community kicked his ass regularly. Notice how that is pretty impossible now with the blue checks and the rate limiting and now the users needing to be logged in to read tweets.

It’s become his dungeon.