About quitting Twitter: Professor Snyder's first two of twenty rules for fighting tyranny from the 21st century: 1. Do not obey in advance. 2. Defend institutions.
Twitter is an institution. We need to show up as per pre-Musk to "not obey in advance."
So I'm with @sarahkendzior@beta.mstdn.cf and @jeffjarvis on this. I've got a foothold in Mastodon, but I am still active on Twitter for as long as possible.
The other eighteen are here:
https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth-century
@davidisen @jeffjarvis An institution is a a "society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose" (Source: Oxford Languages). Twitter is an organization founded for profit that (before Musk) sold the promise of institution. Now it sells the cult of personality of the owner.
@eleland @davidisen Black Twitter is an institution. Many hashtags with their imputed meaning are institutions. Our communities are institutions.
@jeffjarvis @eleland @davidisen And there's no reason those communities can't remain institutions via a different medium.
