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But Twitter is better, leaner, and more popular than ever now, and deservedly so, now that that sinking ship was righted. Reddit doesn't deserve anything like that after this.

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> But Twitter is better, leaner, and more popular than ever now, and deservedly so, now that that sinking ship was righted.

Hopefully this is sarcasm, because in reality the opposite is true (except for the leaner part).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sal...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-is-now-worth-a-third-of...

A company's monetary value is not necessarily tied to how well the app works for its users.

Twitter is better for users now. Because it's not censored to high hell.

> Twitter is better for users now

This is a totally subjective statement. For me its the opposite: All I seem to see there in replies lately are tweets about culture war bullshit talking points that are 100% noise and 0% intellectual value.

> Because it's not censored to high hell.

Except in Turkey, apparently

Seriously? It's worse than ever. If I make the mistake of loading up that site, my only notifications are crypto spam and the homepage has really messed up ads every second post, like stuff I never want to see again (like some kind of effed up mosquito killer appliance which shows them dumping thousands of dead mosquitos onto the ground to demonstrate it works -- WTAF?) ... Combined with suppressing non-"checkmark" users, which basically means "pay to have your voice heard", nonexistent moderation, among countless other issues...

If you say so!

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