Musk is already trying to make twitter into a social media/streaming/payment processor/whatever else he can think of and Zuck is working on herding everyone into the meta-verse, so my guess is the latter.
frankly in my opinion musk becoming the massa of a new ultra niggercattle plantation would be a bad ending, he sketched me out more and more for years now and I was happy with him buying twitter because honestly it would have been nigh impossible to make that hellhole worse than it was under the previous regime. If he would create a combination of old twitter, youtube, paypal (every sin they have committed), venmo, and what else have you with practically unlimited power over information I fear he would create the darkest plantation that only tariq nasheed could imagine
Ultimately twitter though due to popularity and the massive support musk has been able to gain from rightists that can now enjoy the smallest taste of uncensored speech (keyword, small), combined with his ruthless crusade of efficiency in the company his birdcage is likely to survive the mass extinction.
As for zuckerberg, boomerbook has been coasting off of sheer inertia for a long time now, with how spectacularly the metaverse failed and the fact the entire company has been playing the game in sandbox mode for far far too long, combined with zucc's poisoned reputation (and his subsequent attempts to make himself look cool through those shitty photo ops that serve a better purpose for memes). I dont see them surviving TNPD, or atleast staying around with the massive popularity (if you could call it that) that it has now
yeah, i think most if not almost all of silicon valley is funded through easy money. i can guarantee you that the days of these tech giants hiring 100s of useless trannies and having huge open offices is a thing of the past. im wondering how many of them are going to decide that having office spaces in some of the most expensive cities in the us is no longer worth it? if you are struggling with funding, is paying premium san fransisco or washington real estate really a smart use of their budget?
The rise in WFH, the sudden extreme success sofar of AI, the mess a lot of these big tech supercities are in now (along with a lot of other cities with a big white collar presence), the already extreme cost, and now that many tech companies need to make dramatic budget adjustments just for the hope of survival, well if you ever see taxi driver pay attention to how much of a shithole new york was in that movie, because its going to get about that bad.
America's hegemony is slowly crumbling and the Fed's money printer is reaching its limit, so I doubt they'll be able to consolidate those various platforms into a giant hellsite. With any luck, the internet will return to its decentralized nature.
Ive been kicking the idea of what will happen to the web post TNPD for a good amount of time since it became clear a tech crunch was happening and it depends on a lot of variables. The fuckery of western governments trying to keep the niggercattle fed a healthy slop of manufactured consensus (focus specifically on the EU and their lust for censorship, cant forget uncle sam being evil either), tech megacorporations who have a concrete solid presence (google, microsoft, amazon) being able to survive and start reconsolidating and rebuilding the niggercattle plantations (specifically google and M$ since they control the search engines and all alternatives either suck or are russian, he who controls the index controls the web), increasingly locked down hardware by the aforementioned giants (phones are getting locked hard, TMP 2.0, Pluton, probably more im forgetting), Web infrastructure being more easy to impair and mess with (kefflas and liz fong dong were able to bring to bear more power and tools to assault this place than I thought possible, and those were two rando transexuals who just had a lot of clout, it can only get worse), the chingchongs deciding to move aggressively and building/buying their way into rebuilding the plantations under their direct control (I have minimal confidence western governments would make any real effort to stop that if it were to happen), the wildcard musk becoming the new massa (god only knows what he has in store for us, probably nothing good). That and throw in the likely chance things will get a bit wild and unhinged politically with the rise of populism and the establishment flailing around violently attempting to keep control.
Maybe we will luck out and the plantations will stay burnt to the ground and the cattle will be freed, but with google as they are now I have strong doubts. Phones also being inherently awful for anything other than megasites doesnt help.
One last concerning detail, AI has shown itself capable and may be able to function as a robotic janny, M$ has already released an AI to censor text and images, in the name of "hatespeech", with development not slowing thus far on AI im worried uncle ted's dark prediction of computers will come true, hostile algorithms and copyright snitch software has shown us a mere taste of what could be done with AI for information control.
