Fediverse

the entire Fediverse is equal to what, two percent of Twitter’s userbase?

I'd honestly say it's even less and I'd even wager that the amount of bots here are even higher (percent-wise) than Twitter. I'm working on a search engine for the fediverse now, and I was surprised with the amount of bot accounts and mirror servers that I am finding.

you don’t want a journalist’s socials to be in the hands of their boss.

I feel quite the opposite. If a journalist is really independent, then they can go on to host their own content. But as long as they are writing under the editorial guidelines of some larger institution, I want this association to be well defined and transparent.

People don’t want Twitter do die and wither away.

I am fundamentally opposed to any ad-funded business. I honestly believe that moment a lot of the issues in our society can be traced back to the moment that we made it possible for people to make a living by just collecting eyeballs instead of focusing on quality work at a small scale. So, yeah, I very much want Twitter/Facebook/Google to die and wither away.