What happens to your reach on X after you get into a fight with Elon (even if you are right wing) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon-musk-x-suppression-laura-loomer.html

Related, I liked this lens of decentralization "if I owed founder a lot of money, would I use their chain?"

Perhaps this is the social network equivalent: "would I risk my audience to get into a fight with the owner/founder of a social network?"

@lex_node @SquigsCat 40b in stables issued on tron.  The only decentralized part of the network the issuer needs is to run a full node.  That’s sufficient to ensure that even if 100% is the rest of the network is faulty that the issuer is safe.  It doesn’t matter what the economic security of the

someone who owed lots of money to Justin Sun would not hold their money on Tron 

someone who owed lots of money to Vitalik would still be willing to hold their money on Ethereum 

someone who owed lots of money to Coinbase would currently not be willing to hold their money on

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Related, I liked this lens of decentralization "if I owed founder a lot of money, would I use their chain?"

Perhaps this is the social network equivalent: "would I risk my audience to get into a fight with the owner/founder of a social network?"

https://x.com/lex_node/status/1914841403093303597

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Currently: WhatsABI

Yup, "no one cares, until they do" precisely because this is not something we worry about until it's too late.

The one thing I would say is that I’m not sure these people realized at the time this was the choice they were making