the ruins of the age of proprietary social media will resemble Fallout's fictional world: sealed vaults, each with an entire civilization that grew, developed, and eventually died. many buried forever beneath the dust, undiscovered. the rare ones that an adventurer finds their way into offer a unique petri dish of a society, a frozen moment in the flashbulb of collapse.
twitter will not be accessible in this way, it has already been rendered inexcavatable. millions of people deleted their accounts for entirely sensible reasons, severing threads, consigning innumerable interesting and even historically valuable conversations to oblivion.
i don't blame them one bit for doing this. the decision was not truly theirs. it was musk, him alone, who burned the library he'd bought, hoping he could turn it into Biff Tannen's Alternate 1985 Hill Valley.
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