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Musk has done a lot of questionable things, but does anyone remember how actually unusable twitter was before the sale? Musk Twitter has its own set of problems but Jack has proved he has no idea what he's doing

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I remember that before the whole fiasco of a sale Twitter was a place where I could follow interesting tech people. These days those people have left for Mastodon etc. (or stopped posting entirely) and were replaced with hoards of $8 spammers whose only interest is to push inflammatory content to generate the most views and get paid for it.

> how actually unusable twitter was before the sale?

I do not know how usable it was but at least I was able to see the posts. Now I'm not. Well except for some lucky occasion when it shows the post just without replies.

Dorsey isn't running Bluesky, he's just one member of the board.

At this point, whenever I go to twitter, it shows status updates that are years out of date. For example, compare this:

https://ubuntu.social/@launchpadstatus

to this:

https://twitter.com/launchpadstatus?lang=en

This is because you are logged out.

Please note that this is not me advocating for this practice. It has broken the web in immensely frustrating ways.

Given that it appears to be completely broken (last tweet for that account was 6 hours ago, and it's showing a 6 month old cached version), why would I bother creating an account?

I agree. It's ridiculous. I was simply explaining why this behaviour happened.

When you're not logged in, the profile view shows you the most liked posts from that account, not the most recent. Not sure why.

… no? It was very usable before, it's much less usable now.

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