For people with interests or opinions that were heavily censored by pre-Musk Twitter, the end of this censorship alone compensates for the countless new annoyances.
I used my account to (mildly) troll some guy who shared my same name until I got banned a few years ago. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605212
But despite what some people claim, they did not unban everyone, I checked and I am still banned.
outgroup to outgroup lol
Still hoping the site collapses so the two cases mentioned above stop happening.
Also an extra lol @ people learning why user-content sites need moderation, even 4chan is moderated.
Does it account for the 13 new sex bots following me every time I log in, or my DMs full of crypto scams?
Great point, I guess.
There is obviously illegal content (child porn, ...) and copyright infringement, you have to censor it or you will get sued and lose. Related is libel, doxxing, harassement, revenge porn, etc... that may also get you in legal trouble. And there are countries other than the US with different laws, for example many European countries ban some categories of "hate speech", and if you want to do business with them, you need to follow their laws.
And there is spam, if you let all of it pass, it will simply drown everything else.
And at some point, you may want to make money. Usually, you start with advertising, and if you want people to advertise on your platform, so you have to be at least somewhat socially acceptable. You also have to please payment processors, if you bring the wrong kind of people, Visa and the likes won't want to deal with you. On that last part, considering Elon Musk past, he may have workarounds, but the reason Visa has a problem with porn is not just because they are prudes. That's because there is a lot of fraud happening here, and it will happen too on a socially unacceptable network.
And yes, even 4chan is censored.