Lots of smart thoughts and tough questions in this piece from Erin Kissane as folks flee Twitter for Threads:
I personally think Meta’s machinery is so implicated in genocide and a million lesser harms that it should be trapped inside a circle of salt forever, but even I recognize that there are billions of people around the world who have no other social internet available. These are the trade-offs.
Thankfully, I don’t need to rely on social media to sustain Good Morning, RVA, but I have started experimenting with using Instagram as a way to share the content more widely. Now I’m reconsidering how I do that (and maybe looking for my salt cellar)…