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Twitter threads get diluted with 3rd party materials I never subscribed to. This kills the focus and any desire to participate in discussions. Twitter feels so fake and cringy nowadays - a distant departure from the hero of a new internet age it used to be.

I follow 400 people on Twitter and only see the same 10 accounts non-stop. Nobody else. Where is everyone else I follow? Honestly, I think they're mostly shadowbanned or de-ranked. Who knows why.

Have you checked if they’re still tweeting? I still have a twitter account, to hold the username on the off chance that Musk gets bored and divests to spend more time with his car tunnels. At least among my social circle this is rather common; if I look at the ‘following’ tab on that account it’s rather quiet.

Article has 3x-4x engagement on Twitter as Mastodon, actually. So you are having contradictory experiences.

The engagement rate against followers is lower, but Twitter dwarfs everything else in engagement for the author.

In the end, Elon Musk seems to have come through.