Well, Elon didn't actually want a shitposting site when he bought a shitposting site, he wanted some sort of "everything"/banking app.
I dunno why he thinks buying a shitposting site and trying to turn it into a banking app is a good plan, but it will indeed lead to KYC of every user, or maybe moving the company to a new country at least.
His stated motivations when buying it were to protect free speech. Then he bait and switched it to WeChat of the West. Anyways, it's his platform, he can do what he wants with his captured user base.
Well, he may think he can do what he wants with the users but the rate the users are leaving might indicate otherwise.
It's emptying as quickly as Myspace did when Murdoch bought it.
I delete mine within weeks.
He definitely lost me too, and the popping up of so many twitter alternatives (most of them centralized, lol) seems to indicate you may be right about users leaving. As an aside, I think the alternatives are all doing it wrong, trying to recreate twitter without the benefit of established network effect. Nostr has a better shot because "twitter-alternative" is just one use case.
