I think most people focus on bringing back far-right people to the platform, making the application inaccessible to logged out users and the failed attempts at Twitter Premium or whatever it's being called.
the whole platform — users and owners — are just incredibly full of themselves in an _annoying_ way.
now that elon is actually instating a paywall (that isn’t compulsory, and still lets you use it for free) all of HN seems to be thinking it’s the wrong decision.
i’d understand if something substantially happened in the intervening time period to give you the impression the subscription model was NOT the way to go, but nothing of the sorts has actually happened at all.
while it’s better than most sites, the groupthink on HN is insane.
also - i might be wrong if dorsey stepping down was the time when everyone was saying this, but i do remember it very clearly, and i only joined in 2020.
Twitter went from not-profitable to profitable-on-ads. The ad model was proven to work. That's what happened in the interim.