Kris who shared her instance, Hachyderm.io, is also currently "shadow banned" on Twitter. Her account is unsearchable, though you can navigate directly to it at twitter.com/krisnova.
You won't see her tweets though, because Twitter is now using all of its content moderation powers to keep people from switching platforms.
Let's own up to the fact that we have (1) cults of personality, (2) oligarchs, and (3) clear patterns of affecting social change via diktat rather than political dialogue, in our midst, in the West. (The latter was the bone of contention of the current 'supreme leader' of Twitter.)
All are usually held to be signs of underdeveloped institutions and culturally induced (with negative connotations).
What could these missing institutions be? (We do -not- want a ministry of truth, so what else?)
Where/how did we fail in our educational and cultural activities to end up with the 'heroic supreme leader' tendencies emerging in the West?
> Where/how did we fail in our educational and cultural activities
The glorification of "contrarianism" is probably a good place to start. Nobody trusts institutions any more. Nobody trusts experts any more. However, they do trust people they see as their "rebel" kin, whether that's Paul Krugman or Alex Jones. That creates an environment ripe not only for political disinformation but also many kinds of profit-oriented manipulation (e.g. yesterday's bust of YouTube pump-and-dumpers). Contrarianism is not the same as true independent thought; more often than not it's just delegating one's thought processes to different people.
This infatuation with contrarianism itself has a complicated history. The current strain tends to be right/libertarian, going back approximately to the Reagan era. But before that the hippies were strongly anti-establishment in their own way. (If you want to see how this kind of left/right shift works BTW, you could do worse than to study the life of Lyndon LaRouche.) From a longer view, this same set of attitudes goes back at least to the founding of the US, with a vision of liberty that was heavy on individual freedom of action but light on things like responsibility or collaboration. The actual Enlightenment philosophers in Europe mostly had a more balanced set of views. Many people who love to cite Adam Smith, for example, are shocked when they see what he actually had to say about these things. Somehow, though, only half of the Enlightenment message made it across the Atlantic. (Quite likely something to do with the religious element, but that's a whole essay unto itself.)
Back to the topic, Musk is very much one of those "anti-establishment" influencers, but becoming establishment himself which is why so many former fans are now turning on him - joining those who had enough historical/philosophical context to see already what kind of person he is. You need look no further than any Musk/Tesla/Twitter story right here to see this happening.
The problem is not so much that institutions don't exist but that they can't exist in an environment where nobody trusts (and therefore supports) them. First we need to draw a clearer line between contrarianism for social capital vs. actual independent thought. Only then can people see which now-dismissed institutions actually support and/or embody such thought, and begin to trust them again. Until then it will just be one cult of personality after another.
To be frank, the quality of the "Experts" I've seen interviewed in these past two years alone spitting at best biased disinformation you can't really blame people for realizing how easily information can be manipulated. It's just too simple nowadays to find counter-proof "verified" examples of almost anything, including medical literature.
What should happen is for education institutions to step in and aid some sort of analytical and critical thinking from the young age, to learn the ability to fetch information safely
And what I mean about that is safe information isn't books=good, internet=bad. There's disinformation literature still to this day passed as institutional axioms.
Musk and Twitter is a really simple recent example of why this won't be possible, because asymmetrical information is power.
> What should happen is for education institutions to step in and aid some sort of analytical and critical thinking from the young age, to learn the ability to fetch information safely
Fully agreed. My fear is that Ai will be given this task of ‘critical thinking’ and we’ll be back right where we started.
You won't see her tweets though, because Twitter is now using all of its content moderation powers to keep people from switching platforms.
Search limited, link banned, timeline disabled.
So much for free speech!