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If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.
Couldn't agree more.
Nah, the whole problem is that we don't have any say on the sort of train wreck it's becoming for regular users and the creators that we follow. As much as I could just leave, that doesn't help the people I got there to support to begin with.
What's the problem?
Some people talk of it as if it's a matter of principles. That even remaining as a free user in an unprofitable platform is making it pay off, like Elon Musk wins as long as people stay there, as if it was solely about Elon's pride and not the millions of people who still use it for community or professionally.
Seems like a variant of that generalized disdain that a lot of people have for social media they don't use.
It's one thing to promote the Fediverse, it's another to say that whoever doesn't immediately move over is to blame for everything bad being inflicted on them, which is reductive to say the least.
Yeah, it's really annoying to see other people do that. I'm guilty of the same kind of thinking, but I mostly keep it to myself.
Yeah I think the average twitter hater under-estimates how different a well curated twitter feed can be from someone who just randomly follows hundreds if not thousands of random people and they over-estimate how big role Elon plays in it. I don't go check my twitter feed because I want to actively support what ever Musk is doing. I was there already when hardly anyone had heard about him.
If he makes some changes that dramatically affect my user experience then I might consider leaving like I did from reddit after more than 10 years of daily use but so far he havent. My twitter experience is exactly the same as it was 5 years ago.