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The reason I’m not leaving — yet, anyway — is that I dread “unwinding connections to sources, colleagues,” and over 1.35M followers. The alternatives don’t yet ”offer the same reach, or the rich vein of dissimilarity across social and geographic lines.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-i-quit-elon-musks-twitter
Shanquella Robinson's mother says if it wasn't for Black Twitter her daughter's case would have gone cold. Initial tweets about the case were solely from Black social media accounts. Even, @nytimes ran their very first story about her case *today*.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mother-shanquella-robinson-says-black-191000120.html
“Around the country, countless Americans are suffering a very particular type of Covid grief — a mixture of anger, sorrow and shame that comes with losing a loved one who has consumed social media falsehoods.”