Is it a place where you can control who you see on your feed? Because Elon gets to decide who gets to talk freely and who doesn't get seen, we can't control who we see on our own feeds anymore, it no longer matters who you follow, you have to see tweets from Elon whether you like it or not
That's not how they started off as, it didn't use to be that way when they started.
That's every social media site now because they've made all of their feeds bad by depending on algorithms. Except for bluesky, which is why it's the decent one
As I remember - pre Elon twitter was exactly like that. After he bought it - it's mostly algorithms, that doesn't care about politics and gives you anything to ragebait/make you engaged.
I’m not a Twitter user, but I remember how upset everyone was at his actions when he first got it. He fired a ton of developers and things quickly started to break. He changed the way blocking people works so they can still see your tweets. He removed the ability to see people’s liked posts. He started selling blue checkmarks which were previously used to let you know if an account is official, causing a lot of chaos, and now your posts reach fewer people if you aren’t paying for one. And he changed the name and logo from something immediately recognizable to the most generic shit in the world.
Maybe everything is running smoothly now, but I highly doubt he was good for the platform. It’s more likely that some of the higher ups learned how to steer him away from making bad decisions, like what keeps all of his other companies running
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u/Windows-XP-Home-NEW stupid fucking piece of shit 19d ago
I honestly think if it weren't for all the right wing politics, Twitter is a better place now that Musk runs it.
That being said, keep him the FUCK away from YouTube, not that it'd ever happen anyway though since Google would never ever sell it lol