RT @Cornelius_007
@ClaireBerlinski Why isn’t @apple or @google right now preparing a Twitter substitute that would let people easily transfer their follows and followers to the new platform? An ton of normies would leave Twitter quickly and turn Twitter into a second Truth Social. And leave Musk poorer by $44b.
@toomas_ilves @apple @google@mastodon.social I mean, recent developments with the fowl site have only happened over the course of a month and a half, and that's not enough time to build a Twitter substitute.
Plus aside from YouTube Google doesn't currently have many social media properties, and IIRC Apple has none. It's well known that moderation of social media at the scale of Twitter is **impossible** to do well; why would these two companies subject themselves to that?
@toomas_ilves
As for Mastodon (or rather Fediverse in general), it's not a single big site, but thousands of different sites all talking to each other through a common protocol. Instead of one moderator crew dealing with 8-10 million people, you have people on smaller severs responsible for just their own site's users. (You also have better moderation tools for individual users as well.)
