I'm reminded of the phrase 天下为公, which is hard to translate exactly because 公 is doing some linguistical juggling that English has a hard time matching.

I don't think twitter in its current capacity should exist, the storage should be decoupled from the filters and the filters that everyone uses should be a free market with traditional competition dynamics. It may end up looking something like twitter, but without editorializing algorithms and a single walled entry. We can quibble who owns the database I suppose.

It was only a “town square” in the minds of Twitter users, no one else thinks that about a news media propped-up social network. If anything it was a comment section attached to nothing. And comment sections all get bad after a while.

the EU of course, the actually functioning UN

I don’t use it, but some government organizations keep doing it. Why on earth they do that, I will never know, but I’m not making an account to read a tweet.

> X needs revenue to continue

I think that's the point

You don't have a choice when cities, counties, or other government officials decide to make announcements on there.

what else is illegal? adblock?

I just did.

Let’s be honest, They won’t. The users won’t fund it, as they want to use it for free.

This is what happens when people say they will “donate” but will actually wait for others to do it and little to no one donates.

What you are seeing is the bystander effect. It is why projects like Nitter will end up raising capital from VCs as they actually have money.