Continuing to read Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, and it's honestly absurd that the world's richest man bought a 20-year-old-ish web platform, then went around begging tech bros for money just to be able to troll, deprive, and break things with a sloppy codebase. Then started LARPing about open source while running everything into the ground.

Twitter has no real value beyond its influence and data centers. Worst deal ever.

Meanwhile, plenty of Mastodon admins are doing just fine with budgets about 44 billion less than Musk's.

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