Rod wrote:
it seems basically the same to me pre and post the Musk purchase.
I assume the people who are howling that it is suddenly terrible dislike the fact that I can now go on there and tell the truth about a man being a man without being reprimanded or having my account shut down.
People aren't fleeing to Bluesky because Musk has prevented them from expressing their thoughts. They're fleeing because people with opposing viewpoints are now allowed to express theirs.
you would say that if you were ignorant and living in an echo chamber, curious...
anyway, I can't argue with you on a certain level if you think there are equally valid "opposing viewpoints" on such nuanced topics like "do certain human beings deserve the right to exist?". Or, like, think The Babylon Bee is funny.
but arguing on an online platform level, Twitter is certainly worse under Musk, objectively. For one thing it just doesn't work as well. Maybe Musk is a business genius who correctly assuming that firing a ton of engineers didn't matter because the site would stay up. That's turned out to be true, but it's way more buggy and bot/scam-filled to become not just unpleasant but unusable.
And then for content, it's not really political censorship but the inverse: amplification of verified users. The site has
bias towards them and put them higher in replies, more reach on links (certain domains - Substack for one - are throttled), taking over the 'for you' tab. It just so happens that the people dumb and/or hateful enough to pay for Twitter also are right-leaning