https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3v74y/platforms-are-temporary-community-is-forever

“RIP Twitter” was trending on Monday, within moments of it being announced that ultrarich shitposter Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy the social media platform. While conservatives celebrated the move as a triumph for their favorite billionaire edgelord, progressives, queer and trans folks, and other communities lamented what they saw as the platform’s inevitable demise.

In many ways, the reaction was reasonable, given Musk’s long track record of implicit and explicit transphobia, labor abuses, and generally being an insufferable shit who regularly uses his immense wealth and influence to make himself the main character. Combine that with Twitter’s long track record of failing to protect marginalized groups from targeted abuse and it’s easy to envision a future where Musk rolls back even meager protections, re-welcomes QAnon conspiracy peddlers, and makes the platform unusable for large sections of the human race.