Money. is anyone benefitting from this? alternative sites that are developing or those that are getting increased traffic that are already established? on the margin, mastodon, you see many of the blue checks saying they re going there. twitter had an ecosystem of journalists and finance people and snarky people that all of them by design both loved it and hated it and it s hard to port. call interesting birdie and why did zoom appear out of the ether instead of facetime or skype. twitter has never been a great business. it s been a great meeting of the minds and the snarkiness and that s brutally hard to replicate overnight. does that snark apply to the ....