LogFAQs > #973144832

Yeah, Dorsey has been open that his biggest regrets about old Twitter was basically "I was forced to have moderators" and was extremely pro-Musk takeover right up until like two weeks into his ownership when Musk backstabbed him and started scapegoating him and old Twitter with a shitload of lies to deflect from the garabage fire he was turning the company into.

IIRC, he has stated a desire to implement crypto shit too.

I do get the sinking feeling Bluesky is probably the best chance of being the replacement thanks to Dorsey being a known/"trusted" figure, the money lining up behind it, and not making some of the rookie mistakes the other alternatives had. Mastodon felt like the best option from what I can tell but they lost any chance they had to seize the moment with how the federated servers worked. Ironically, Truth had the right idea in that it was a Mastodon fork that just basically ignored federation so the end user never had to grapple with questions like "what is the fediverse." Which, I mean, on one hand Mastodon has its own mission and goals so it's not entirely fair to criticize them for not doing a 180 to take advantage of Twitter becoming a hellhole but damn if it wouldn't have been better for society I think.

I feel like the best case scenario is we get old Twitter back. But I think a more likely version is that we get a worse old Twitter that while still better than Musk's shithole takes a far more "libertarian" approach to moderation. Already they seem like they're outsourcing moderation to users unless you're flagrantly violating the law and basically saying "it's on you to block things you don't like, we're not gonna do shit."