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Top replies to tweets are from blue-checks (nowadays, generally the worst posters) so to see any good interactions you either have to scroll pretty far or have used a blocklist. Twitter Blue is now completely tarnished - even if you just want to pay $8/month for the ability to edit posts or include longer videos in your tweets and don't care about "verified" status you're going to be lumped in with a really odd group of people and mocked for your blue check (i.e. he turned a consumer choice into an unpopular political statement). I'm not personally a heavy user anymore (moved to mastodon when they killed Tweetbot's API access), but either there's a lot of downtime or I've been really unlucky when I have returned as I've encountered a lot of issues with accessing the app - being completely locked out for a couple of days once. Also he unbanned a bunch of really pretty shitty people, who have picked up where they left off in directing their substantial following to abuse whoever they feel wronged them (usually someone in the LGBTQ+ community).

It's still largely usable as a service, but it has absolutely gotten worse and to describe it as "sabotage" is definitely not a stretch.

This isn't really my experience. Lots of accounts with Blue whatever are fine.

Tech twitter has changed somewhat, with some people leaving.

But my other interest remain mostly the same.

> he turned a consumer choice into an unpopular political statement

Only a few people on tech twitter and some hard core rightist actually believe that.

> It's still largely usable as a service, but it has absolutely gotten worse and to describe it as "sabotage" is definitely not a stretch.

Yes it is. Outside of Tech twitter shitshow over Twitter itself Twitter has mostly been mostly the same before and after.

Maybe this isn't the case for LGBTQ+ or other communities, I can't judge that.

But overall to say Twitter is 'sabotaged' is kind of nonsense.

I think you're mistaken in believing I am on "tech twitter" as you understand it. I had a serious account under my real name (which I barely used and followed serious tech people) and a fun account under a false name (which I heavily used and followed no tech people at all). I've no idea what "tech twitter" thinks about anything, last I checked on my serious account everyone was just getting on with their normal stuff without engaging in any of this, so it's something different from what you mean.

Also:

>> he turned a consumer choice into an unpopular political statement

> Only a few people on tech twitter and some hard core rightist actually believe that.

No, many legacy blue checks have observed it first-hand and talked about it, it's become a very common talking point - see "this mf paid for twitter". You must have a very sheltered existence on twitter and on the internet at large if you haven't seen this. Frankly I felt a bit cheap re-using that line because it's paraphrasing something that had already been said hundreds of times already.

I guess then we just don't really have the same experience. Hard to believe a account not involved in technology or partisan politics has a huge amount of discussion of these issues.

> see "this mf paid for twitter".

Ok so hardcore anti-Musk people and rightist believe the same thing and it reinforces each other. Great, I don't care.

Neither of these groups are interesting or relevant and such discussions mostly happen under popular posts, not most things I follow.

What's the actual stretch is your denial of reality.

Alright I’ll bite, what reality am I denying here? I could’ve gone further but I thought in the interests of not aggravating the few remaining Elon fans I’d keep it simple, but apparently that didn’t work.

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