There’s nothing wrong with liking Threads and thinking it’ll kill Twitter. It won't, but you can think that.

There’s also nothing wrong with me thinking Threads is stupid, and that people who like Threads are stupid and making fun of them on Twitter, which, will federate and be fine and be its own thing.

Or, playing both sides for my own amusement and profit.

That’s the beauty of these things called civil liberties, democracy, and freedom of expression and freedom of association, and participation... that the Internet was supposedly built to enable. That was the promise I thought there was.

I know it's very inconvenient, to have to hear that maybe you aren't all that great, and I don't think you're all that clever or interesting... but so long as I am not crossing a line into harassment and keep it above the waist/in good humour/am giving you tough love, it is as much my right to call you a vessel for corporate nonsense and doublethink as it is for you to be one.

If you are a little more open-minded, and humble, you might even take some of that tough love on board, and might listen and achieve actual change, actual progress, and do something over and above a pitch deck to help the structurally disadvantaged.

People are angry on Twitter because they've been dispossessed and are angry and hurting. They need an outlet for their anger because the powers that be aren't listening, keep promising and never delivering. and are too busy tweaking their decks and talking about how "nice" Threads is, without those vulgar and horrible people who say horrible things. I mean, imagine being upset by the current system AND SAYING IT OUT LOUD to the people who hoard all the resources and power and don't share.

The nerve of them. Don't they know who is allowed to speak?

Honestly? I am perfectly fine with you existing on the internet. I am not some dude still holding grudges against AOL from September 1993. I, in fact, encourage it, because I get a lot of amusement and comedy mileage from laughing at you. I want you to have a curated experience, a portal that makes people enjoy the internet as much as I have over the years.

You become my problem when you start telling me that I am not allowed to like Twitter, want to start policing what isn't on your branded portal and Fisher Price Internet, and don't want me to have my own non-bland, non-stupid beliefs and ideas.

So, Threads lovers and Twitter haters, how about you just... leave everyone alone and make it okay for me too and stop censoring people and policing thoughts.

Or, better yet, learn how to coexist on something built for all of us, not just you and your brand partners and Human Resources Managers. How about we all part ways, and live and let live.

One day, you might even learn to step out of this bubble you've made for yourself where you are great, you are right, and everything you do is for the best... and maybe, with a little help, look within and see that maybe, you ain't so great, take the feedback, reflect on the substance and realise that you are actually part of a very big problem.

Thanks.