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The Whiteness of Mastodon

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The Response of Twitter Users to Elon Musk's Takeover of Twitter

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and the promise to civilize say the digital commons is kind of a misnomer because all he's doing is actually executing his own vision of what corporate control digital commons should look like. Black Twitter as a phenomena emerged by means of the affordances of Twitter through how things like quote tweets, retweets and hashtags allowed black users to engage in black digital practices which are the performances of black offline culture.

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