My timeline has just been all about Musk, I hide posts and so on but it's no use. He wants to be the main character and people are giving him attention. It's annoying and I have not that much interest in it.

People hate on Mastodon but there you can actually find insightful content with hashtags and see what you want, I spent a good amount of time curating my twitter TL but I don't see much use in going there right now. I don't preach to just migrate to mastodon or other places but Twitter seems like it has run its course, for me at least, I hope it improves since there used to be a lot of great content from developers once you block/mute people playing the algorithm.

Additionally I'm getting DM requests all the time from bots, today alone I got 3, I don't understand what's happened.

Like the post said, this isn’t the first time Elon has acted this way. He posted the same sort of stuff years ago, also on Twitter. People who ignored him then can ignore him now.

But, just like when certain Twitter users enter public office, Elon being the CEO of Twitter has shined a giant spotlight on him, even outside of Twitter (like this very post we’re commenting on). Elon hasn’t changed, and honestly, not much of Twitter has either. But, by using Twitter, you are ever so slightly increasing the ad revenue the company receives. If that’s not something you can stomach, leave. If you don’t care, stick around, not much will change. Up to you. The author of the post is in the former group.

I think it's probably pretty dependent on who you follow and how you interact. I'm not tweeting anymore, but still have my account (I harbour some vague hope that it'll eventually do a Tumblr and get resold to some more competent steward). My timeline has gone pretty quiet, and pretty meta (a lot of it is _about_ Twitter). There's a lot more random crap suggested than there used to be; I'd say at least two thirds of my feed is suggestions or "[someone] liked". Until I blocked him, Elon tweets were inescapable (I'd never followed him, but til recently he never made frequent enough appearances on my timeline that I felt the need to block him). The ads have gone very gambling and crypto-oriented (though, interestingly, right now they're not appearing at all).

All in all, it is not what is was; on the contrary Mastodon has gone from a ghost town to having most of the stuff I liked from Twitter; in many ways it's the Twitter of 15 years ago, and that's largely a good thing.

I believe that this is more related to a political point of view than Twitter's quality itself.

The ads I get are definitely junkier, but I think they've been getting worse over time, rather than one quick lurch.

So having a self avowed Neo-Nazi invited back into the room, who cannot be reported, is “virtually no difference”?