We're also so very much socialized to believe that What Happens Online is the end/all be all. You can theoretically measure your influence on an app like Twitter, but you can absolutely calculate lives lost because of what Musk does with that influence.

so I guess the question is, is it really worth having higher numbers to be part of that? And it's not leaving a country, and I'm very tired of all this "twitter refugee" talk. It's actually pretty easy to stop participating in Musk's social media genocide. An audience isn't worth that.