But I decided that my account has basically zero value and it will be phased out after August 2023 (long story on why).
Everything else, a dumpster fire. Especially after these three years.
All I needed to do was mute political threads when they happened (left or right), and I got a lot of interesting stuff out of it.
Now it’s a lot of tribal bullshit.
I wish I could mute Elon Musk and what he does across the entire Internet.
And that’s speaking as someone right of centre. I’m just tired of his antics.
And about muting, I put myself on a smallish Mastodon instance but I've had to mute, filter and block loads of people these days to prevent any inch of politics from appearing in the feed. I hope like this I can have a "curated" experience that is more enjoyable (I used to have an account somewhere else, then the instance turned into political activism and I just deleted it).
You can ignore things but that doesn't make them go away. See 1933.
The press, the journalists, and the "civil society" that prided itself to be the only barrier against the "dangers to society" happily complied. And those who weren't conspiracy theorists were considered at the same level as the true loons (which were always there, but a minority).
All of this with widespread support from the society at large, including the social media platforms like Twitter. I'm not talking about the Twitter Files. I'm talking about a "law of unintended consequences" where independently, most people shared the same mindset and acted accordingly (no conspiracy at all, IOW).
Those journalists that lament the loss of freedom with EM, they may have a point. However, where were they back then? I have a hard time believing them due to this. There are however some exceptions, which I happen to know, that were always consistent in their views, luckily.