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Substack is not a suitable alternative to Twitter.

If Elon Musk can buy Twitter, he can buy Substack.

However, Elon Musk cannot buy the Fediverse. No one company owns it. It is not for sale.

@atomicpoet Maybe. Google sort-of took over Usenet - most users of Google Groups probably don't know where it came from.

@TimWardCam Weird because I was just on Usenet recently, and required no Google services to do that.

In fact, Google does not own Usenet.

@atomicpoet I know that, you know that, I'm just saying that most users of Google Groups probably don't.

Chris Trottier

@TimWardCam Not very many people use Google Groups nowadays so that’s a red herring.

@atomicpoet @TimWardCam

I didn't know google groups was still even around, it became so useless I stopped even trying.

The story of the DejaNews acquisition becoming whatever is left of google groups is a textbook example of Doctorow's enshittification theory.