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> It's common to blame the move from Twitter on Elon's politics. And that's perfectly valid. I moved away for a much simpler reason.

The bulk of the people I follow (mostly authors, journalists, and geeks) have moved off or drastically reduced their activity on Twitter and it's almost entirely due to Elon's politics and the changes he's making in support of that world view.

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It's funny to see the network effect work in reverse. As users start to leave the platform it becomes easier and easier for others to leave as well.

To be fair, that's because he leveled the playing field that was tilted in favor of the elite establishment consensus. They aren't supportive of a platform with free speech. ie, speech one disagrees with. Team Establishment was happy when it censored opposing viewpoints and it's no surprise, although unfortunate, they migrated to regressive platforms where that still occurs.

> To be fair, that's because he leveled the playing field that was tilted in favor of the elite establishment consensus.

Do you really believe this?

Anyway, most of the people I follow left because of the terrible people and bots, sooooo many bots, clogging up their timeline with right wing nonsense.

Why not believe it if it's true? Twitter was systematically working with the government to ban people they (and sometimes by weird comedy of errors, also Russian FSB) want to ban. They were also systematically banning and suppressing people expressing opinions disfavored by the elite consensus.

Bots don't help of course, but the presence of bots doesn't preclude the tilted playing field.

> Why not believe it if it's true? Twitter was systematically working with the government to ban people they (and sometimes by weird comedy of errors, also Russian FSB) want to ban.

That’s still happening. But what does that have to do “elite consensus”?

Who is banned and who is not is determined by that consensus.

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