Stop trying to make "the only ethical choice is to leave Twitter" happen unless you've made the choice to not listen to the Black communities who have explained why it's still important for many.

Yes, the owner is clearly, at a minimum, openly friendly with fascists. Now wait until you hear about the everyday lives of Black Americans in predominantly White communities and workplaces.

Make your choice but do not proclaim it to be "the only" reasonable choice.

#BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon

@mergerson

FWIW, I'm in touch with techies some of whom are ex-Twitter: Twitter WILL collapse technically, in a few months. It will also collapse financially according to the business sources I follow.

Now is the time to prepare other spaces, because Twitter is just not going to be usable by this time next year. This is not an ethical argument, this is a pragmatic argument. The only viable choice is to build somewhere else ASAP.

@mergerson I still have my Twitter account for advocacy but I know the countdown to demolition has started.

@neroden What if I told you that Black Americans are extremely tech savvy and well-informed as to developments, and can make their own judgments as to timing and next steps?

@mergerson @neroden So much of the "only reasonable choice" crowd comes across like, "I made a choice based on my religious fever, and you must now accept my religious faith and do as I did or you are now the heathen!"

Sorry folks, I don't do the techno-religious thing. I favor posting here, some I follow will stay on the Bird Site for their reasons. If that isn't good enough, we all have to learn to live with world world world world world world world world. world world d sometime. Today is that day for those making a religion of leaving Twitter.