I'm going to submit it to HN right now

@Gargron For now Twitter is in a bubble where no press can be bad enough that it hurts them significantly. But there is a fine line which they will eventually cross. Facebook is kind of in a similar setting but managed (thanks to Instagram) to have also some positive press.

I really wonder when Twitter will make the fatal mistake that pushes them over the edge.

@Gargron sent to the birdie site as well, thanks :)

@Gargron is this your submission ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508503

@Gargron couldn't agree more - it's like everyone is happy to walk into a shop (like a high street shop) and have their conversations there - and ultimately the shop owner sets the rules, and does what they want with the conversations. -I'm not so comfortable with that.

Yet another reason I've stayed here.

@Gargron seems like many people have a misunderstanding of what twitter is, such as this: https://twitter.com/maliciouslink/status/969400700299030529?s=21

@Gargron how many users are on your instance? Is there a cap? How big is your moderation-team? Is there an easy way (via API maybe?) to report toots to a moderation-team of an instance?

I ask because you wrote that moderation is easy on mastodon

@Gargron

Very true. Twitter is a nearly bankrupt private company willing to do anything for cash. Including, but not limited to, kissing Communist babies and promoting Hillary Clinton for President.