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It's only weird, if you attempt to parse it with a straight face.

This is some B-grade best-effort spin on what has been uncontrolled chaos with predictably awful effects.

The only thing keeping Twitter rolling is the majority percentage of the casual niche user in non-political and non-technical niches, who haven't been paying attention to the chaos; and who by virtue of being casual users are not notably surprised at everything that has broken both culturally, wrt safety and content, and technically.

Unfortunately for Leon the money comes from corners who HAVE been paying attention and not only see what's happened, and ongoing—they see through this kind of comedic college-try at handwaving around it.

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Twitter has never been more fun, useful, and engaging for me.

I signed up for an account after years of refusing to do so after elon took over

Then, if I may ask, how do you have an idea of what it was before?

I was a lurker before, I read twitter all the time with out an account. It as a pain because they kept trying to force you to create an account so I kept having to find ways around their account signup walls which was fun...

What's funny is they no longer try to force you to create an account. I used to use nitter.net to browse someone's history, but now I can do it on Twitter apparently with no restrictions.

What specific communities have gotten more fun for you since Elon took over and what is making them more fun? Genuinely curious.

That's because you're a right wing troll, no? You're exactly the target demographic Musk is rolling out the red carpet for, so it stands to reason you're having a great time with it. This clearly doesn't refute the OP though.

Will certainly be interesting to see if there are enough of y'all willing to shell out $8/mo to have your speech boosted above the free variety to make up for the lost ad spend of the Pinochet-helicopter-meme-adverse.

>That's because you're a right wing troll, no?

I am an independent libertarian that strongly believes in free expression, beyond the idea that only governments can censor people.

>>speech boosted above the free variety to make up for the lost ad spend

I think the reduced ad spend is temporary and in some ways unrelated to Musk whom they have used as an excuse to virtue signal for something they were already going to do in the first place

Also I think the plans are to expand twitters revenue model beyond Blue and ads so it will be more interesting what Elon plans to expand twitter into

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