For all our whingeing, Twitter was special. Mastodon could never compare | Sarah Manavis

Elon Musk’s takeover has seen an estimated million users leave the site. But was it already past its prime?Like much of what has happened in recent years, the possibility of Elon Musk taking over and actually managing to destroy Twitter had the quality of a fever dream: something that would probably be a disaster but would almost certainly never happen. It felt likely that, even in the most dramatic case, he would succeed only in making an already bad platform slightly worse. Which is why