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I feel you're looking at twitter from 5-10 years ago and pretend it was exactly like that pre-Elon.

Twitter months pre-Elon was pretty hard on steering the public discussion away from things Twitter didn't want

Ignoring that the major media orgs were still able to post links without being completely blackholed, Substacks and other blogs were still prominent and viral at the time as well. "Steering public discussion" is only partly related, which is why I said "some subset".

Now there is practically nothing on the algo feed that links out of X.

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