And for the love of God, don’t blindly take voting advice from Elon Musk.
Take a Walk on the Decentralized Side
Twitter may be much smaller than other social media sites, but it plays an outsize role in public discourse. It’s centralized: You log in and are torpedoed into one endless, messy timeline, where political and media elites chew over the agenda of the day. “While the future may indeed lie in a collection of more specialized, interconnected communities served by Mastodon, Discord, and others,” Chris Riley, senior fellow for internet governance at Tech Policy Press wrote last week, “Twitter will retain one great advantage: Centralized discovery and sharing are still very powerful services, and difficult to replicate in a more distributed system.”
Still, now’s the time to explore other social media services. Mastodon is experiencing a rapid rise in users, as Twitter…
