There's a reason Elon Musk bought Twitter and killed it and then turned it into an undead abomination. It's because it was a powerful force in creating and reinforcing cultural norms and it was predominantly not driving things the way he wanted them to go.

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Sometimes people come together to grieve. Sometimes people come together to build something necessary. Sometimes people come together to change something that's wrong and harmful. And it's not less real if it's online instead of offline.

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I think the idea that social media is "supposed to be" any one thing is unnecessarily exclusive of people for whom social media is many things. It's like saying "physically being with other folks in your community is supposed to always be fun". No, sometimes it's supposed to be something else.

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The important thing, which you point out a lot, is that this is supposed to be FUN. I'm not here to persuade some MAGA Republican, or a Russian bot pretending to be a MAGA Republican, or anyone at all. I'm here for cat pictures and silly memes, which is JUST FINE.

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Also, you know. Bluesky is not a fucking Nazi bar.

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