@efesell: All i learned was that twitter was a failing company losing hundreds of millions of dollars in months, Elon put an offer in, changed his mind and was then somehow forced to buy it, he made radical layoffs and decisions that caused many remaining staff to resign, which sucks but when you force someone to spend tens of billions it's hard to argue.
Since then there has been less moderation, either due to lack of staff or Musk's pursuit of freedom of speech, leading to a reported increase in harassment of users on the platform, i personally believe there's an increase in harassment everywhere on the internet so it's hard to just put it down to a suggested reduction in moderation, i suspect many more changes will happen on the platform when they've had time to recover... or actually make a profit (apparently the last time they did that was 2019), Musk suggested he will appoint someone else CEO when he finds the right person.
As far as use of the platform goes for the average user i haven't noticed a difference, part of that might be because i'm not an internet celebrity trying to push my face into everyone's face, but i do check in on various content makers sometimes for specific updates, which still seems to work pretty well, it's been a good way to see direct reports from people in Ukraine and i've seen plenty of charity events organised through it.
I still feel like i'm missing something, i still can't see why people are mad at it but seemingly continue to use it without issue, is it just the harassment? Does Facebook deal with harassment better?
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