This ferver demonstrates to me that Musk was right. Some people want Twitter to be exclusive to their own politics. They don't care about who they follow, they care about who other people are following.
People are not leaving Twitter because of politics, they are leaving because they are finally seeing the cesspool that Twitter is.
This is 95% of social media, including HN.
I stayed up until now. Clearly the new owner doesn't want us around. I won't stay where I'm not wanted. Since most of my friends already made the jump to Mastodon the decision isn't very hard...
There seem to be a lot of people who not only want to control what they see on Twitter (understandable) but also want to control what others see.
> But although Trump was a serial “main character”, as president he was unlike the all main characters who went before: he was fundamentally unavoidable.
I encourage people who want to mould their own experience or echo chambers to use the block button.