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I do not understand the amount of Gen-X people who are upset about Musk. Most of those virtue signalers spoke in exactly the same manner on Usenet until it was expedient financially to pretend otherwise.

You don't have to take everything Musk says seriously. He speaks like people would speak in 2000.

On Twitter everyone has his own page. There is no reason why anyone should feel associated with political content from others. I would not feel associated with Ahmadinejad (who was uncensored all the time) any more than with a purported far right poster.

The whole thing is a storm in a teacup by people who want government censorship and cannot tolerate different speech on pages other than their own.

How about leaving all .com domains because there are a couple of right wing ones, too?

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> I do not understand the amount of Gen-X people who are upset about Musk.

It is not about Gen-X people. If you pay attention what he has promised and failed to deliver on. He promised to get rid of bots on Twitter and all that he has done is to make the problem worse and saying that he owns the contents of the tweets so AI companies needs to pay for access to create more sophisticated bots.

He's also just genuinely made Twitter a worse platform. The vast majority of Twitter's social cachet was based on people viewing tweets, or hearing about things happening on Twitter, without having an account there - Twitter's actual user-base was tiny compared to it's influence.

Now, if people can't view tweets without being logged in to Twitter, there's absolutely no reason to share them at all (i.e. this has led to r/worldnews switching to Mastodon links to share Ukraine war news, which in turn is a convoluted path of telegram and cross-posting from various sources).

The attempt to monetize the blue checkmarks showed very fundamentally he has absolutely no idea what Twitter's value actually was.

Weird to say, but I kinda like the new Twitter. At least in my corner it's a pretty cozy place, which is not how I would describe the platform before the sink was let in.

If things continue to improve this way I may just buy a blue check. Not because I need it but because I think the platform is actually going in a good direction.

He doesn't speak how people would in 2000 at all. It's weird corporate pandering but more politically neutral than bombarding people with identity politics as usual.

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