Episode 250 - The Bird Flips
As the keys to Twitter get turned over to Elon Musk, Max talks about how the development of the open internet is proceeding. He traces back to previous predictions about the upcoming fallout from short-sighted content politics of the previous social media management, and how the dream of a decentralized communication network is progressing.
Links
WIRED: Twitter Users Flock to Other Platforms as the Elon Era Begins
Decrypt: Elon Musk, Twitter, Dogecoin, Bluesky, and the Decentralized Social Media Race By Daniel Roberts
Decrypt: FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Was 'Potentially Interested' in Buying Twitter with Elon Musk, Texts Claim By Kate Irwin
Decrypt: Crypto Exchange Binance Confirms $500M Investment in Musk's Twitter Takeover By Andrew Asmakov
Decrypt: Binance Will Help Elon Musk Use Crypto to Battle Twitter Bots By Mat Di Salvo
Decrypt: Elon Musk, Twitter, Dogecoin, Bluesky, and the Decentralized Social Media Race By Daniel Roberts
Motherboard Tech By Vice: Facebook’s Monopoly Is Imploding Before Our Eyes By Edward Ongweso Jr
Y Hacker News: Mastodon recently hit 1 million active users. It has about 2.89 million total users among 3,400+ servers.
VERDICT: Twitter’s BlueSky could conventionalize the fediverse for social media By GlobalData Thematic Research
GIZMODO: The Folks Jack Dorsey Tapped to Make a ‘Decentralized’ Social Platform Now Have a Beta
Related Episode:
Episode 211 on Facebook’s Stock Shock
Episode 204 - Free Speech, Moderation, and Censorship with Johnny Nelson
Episode 153 - Decentralizing Before our Eyes
Episode 28 on the Banning of Alex Jones
Episode 6 on the next phase of the internet
