Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter will end it, and the successor is clear: Mastodon. But Mastodon is different in its content and tone, but it's also organized in a way that makes it fundamentally different from virtually all other platforms. What was Twitter? Like almost all other things that called themselves platforms, Twitter is a for-profit US corporation at the service of investors, just like Facebook, and Facebook’s subsidiary Instagram, as well as Google and its subsidiary Youtube. TikTok is unique among these big platforms in that it is not from the US but is a subsidiary of the government of China.
Mastodon is here to stay!