People pissed off at Twitter, or X, or Elon Musk - or even Trump - or simply not getting their way, or not seeing their agendas prosper and grow.
Basically little more than some unhappy people (the left? maybe extreme left?) stamping their feet at what social and political agendas are occurring (particularly in the USA), and crying that they're going to take their ball and go home.
Which, on a tangent, poses the question, once the political agenda(s) - plural because of both Canada and the US - swings back to the right, will we see more social media platforms for the woke spring up?
We have seen this shift already happen in Europe. We are now witnessing this shift happening in the USA with Trump. We are about to see this political shift in Canada soon as well; Trudeau and the Liberals are finished, and it will shift and swing to the right.
But it's not all political. In our collective Western society, whether we like it, or admit it or not, we are ultimately educated by entertainment and movies - yes, fiction. And our entertainment and movies over the past couple years, have consistently lost money measured in the billions (yes, with a "b"). Hollywood and Disney are creatively bankrupt and in some serious trouble. And the mighty dollar speaks loudly. We will likely see this shift in our entertainment as well.
Could it have less to do with pissed off people and more to do with fear? The perception that their social or political beliefs and positions are threatened or not heard, or not being listened to? Are we at a moment when the feared great silent majority are speaking? I can't say, and I don't know.
I don't want to sound too one sided. Whether it's people pissed off or whether it's people driven by fear, is irrelevant. At the end of the day, social media platforms are not society itself. Social media platforms are tools. Nothing more, nothing less.
Mastodon and Bluesky are dull, rusted tools in the Broken Keys Publishing & Press' toolbox. Twitter (X) has never been a strong platform for us. (And Facebook is slowly becoming a dull, rusted tool as well). Social agenda and politics are not our wheelhouse. We are not interested in the wares they are peddling. And as such, we will be exiting both Mastodon and Bluesky.
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