Personally I don't use Twitter/X anymore, it has no value to me, but I understand some people find it valuable.
Twitter cannot survive at current scale with any reasonable subscription price. If advertisers come back and it shows enough ads to turn a profit users will get sick of the ads, it will turn into Facebook.
Twitter can survive with zero subscriptions and no advertisers. It’s owned by the world’s richest man.
Twitter was not bought to make money. Twitter is expenditure for narrative control.
FWIW it's not really fair that everyone interesting left just because they didn't like Musk which turned twitter into boring place, basically self reinforcing cycle.
Musk didn't want those interesting people on his platform to begin with, and he he did everything he could to drive them away.
Elon jumped into conspiracy theories a bit later, tho I don't see his tweets anymore for some reason.
And for nazi's - you'll find them everywhere if you squint hard enough.
There were definitely waves of jumping ship. Some people left on day 1, presumably because, well, life is too short to have to deal with Musk. But IIRC the biggest boosts to Mastodon traffic (for most of the early period Bluesky was invite only so not a useful metric) were around when it started banning a bunch of journalists (this later seems to have been abandoned as a strategy), brought back a bunch of particularly egregious lunatics, and nuked the third party API. Those inciting events were scattered from late 2022 to early 2023.
Also kinda amazing even anti-elon bots haven't been stopped - https://x.com/teslaeurope/status/1831622360656421294
New owner is actually the best option in my opinion too , but I don't think anyone is willing to buy it for 44b .