Twitter was always disproportionately left before Elon. He comes in and things start leaning right. It should tell you everything about how the platform amplified or de-amplified certain language.
If setting things right causes 20 million people to flee, was it the right course of action? I think so. Maybe not the best business sense yet… but giving a shifting strategy and a long term outlook - it could be.
They’ll be back.
Topical handbrake reaction.
Bunch of trigger happy snowflakes.
It’s interesting that #nostr had a big draw (and maybe it still do) because X (and other social media platforms) was seen as flawed (and very much centralized), and now when, presumably left leaning, people leave X because a single person (with close ties to the government) is running the place #nostr users seem to think they are stupid for it.
