Just to be pedantic, Elon hasn't done anything yet to the Twitter service apart from saying you'll have to pay for your blue tick. I'll throw my toys out of the pram when I actually see some changes I don't like happen and not when they might happen.
@dick_turpin I don't think it has anything to do with free speech BS. It's simplier than that. Twitter needed ad revenue to exist. Musk's uncertainty and inconsistency has scared advertisers, they pulled there spend. He's now in a rock and hard place having lost 1B revenue loss for 2023. Great advantage of Mastodon is not having to rely on ad revenue.
@intrbiz Yep, I can see that. But that doesn't explain people jumping ship. I would have thought fewer adverts were a stronger reason to stay?
@dick_turpin I'm not paying the same price as Amazon Prime to get 50% less ads. But I think the key thing is, he's made it uncool. And given people a reason to branch out by rocking the boat. If he had been slow about it, the rats would not flee the ship.
@intrbiz Yep, kinda what I just said to Tig