My current thoughts of the state of Twitter after Elon Musk’s acquisition:
- Website performance has not suffered – yet. If it wasn’t for the news publicizing the huge number of layoffs, I’d think everything was normal. Automation probably has things on cruise control, but at some point something is gonna break and the loss of institutional knowledge will hurt them.
- The way Musk is handling layoffs and straight up dismissals is unprofessional. Twitter should be a no-go zone for developers at this point.
- Elon Musk’s sympathy for toxic accounts is a pattern now. Whether it’s because of a true belief in zero censorship or just an attempt to drive up the engagement remains unclear to me.
- Some of my favorite accounts have left for good to Mastodon. So far it’s been mostly niche accounts though.
- While the day to day site experience has not changed much, Elon Musk’s proactively catering to right wing trolls makes it harder to justify to stay by the day.
While I have not made a decision of leaving Twitter for good, I have opened an account at mastodon.online/@CesarSantiago to experiment with it.