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They're leaving Musk, but they're not leaving his financial backers, and they're entering into the same kind of "possibly sold to a fascist despot at a moment's notice" situation they just left.
It's short sighted, perfirmative, and doesn't actually make the Internet better at all. It just tells us that people prefer a closed Internet owned by billionaires.
Maybe these people need to feel the cycle first hand a few more times and that's okay. ActivityPub will be even stronger when it comes around again.
Yeah, what's stopping the richest guy in the world just buying blue-sky as well?
Nothing, and it's already run by web3 folk