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X's mandatory self-reported figures in the EU show they lost about 6 million monthly active users in the first half of 2024. There doesn't seem to be similar data for the US and UK, but other metrics, like Similarweb, show declines in those places as well.[0]

[0]https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-los...

I just proved your point down below. You don't like voting, do you?

Also, it's advertisers that stay away, and it's X challenging them in court over it. The world is getting weirder by the day.

Do you have an uncle that can't stop ranting and calling people names? People just leave his presence. That behavior is just the worst and we're not born to suffer it, passively. That's the whole point of the free speech fallacy. Now the shouters are in power, so they can pour their trauma down our throats, as if this were some therapy. No, it's just abuse and it's perverse. That's why people leave X. They have a target on their back.

You literally have a "Following" tab where you can have a timeline for only people you care about. You also have both a mute & a block button. Any platform focused on news & politics will have people fighting & insulting each other, learn to deal with it.

Advertisers have left as part of a concerted pressure campaign to bring back censorship. This effort has been coordinated by NGOs that ironically receive funding by the US Gov't as part of their mis/dis/malinformation playbook in order to keep in check populist political movements that may undermine the State Department's interests. As soon as Elon sued GARM, it broke apart, and I bet the Trump admin will target NewsGuard and kill it as well.

You've been duped. Your information environment sounds very narrow, and you may be over valuing information from people who are politically similar (I believe some people call this an "echo chamber", but I'm not fond of that term.)

Strongly recommend you take steps to interrogate your inputs more critically. Or at least change the way you present, because you come across as quite dogmatic and zealous, like a flat earther.

> Also, it's advertisers that stay away,

They are coming back and line up

X is the 15th largest social network by MAU[1], and falling.

And there is some irony in your praise for tolerance.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_...

I may disagree with people politically, but I would never ask to ban them. Heck, I don't even report people who hurl racist insults at me, I just counter-attack, just like I would in real life.

That pretty much sums up X: people hurling insults at each other while Dear Leader exhorts them to support conservatives in unblockable posts.

I get it can be satisfying, but I just walked away from the toxicity, as I would in real life.

Before Elon bought Twitter, if someone called me the n word and I reported it, they took action. After Elon bought Twitter, they tell me no rules were broken. So this is absolute nonsense

X usage may be at an all time high, but it’s mostly “Pussy In Bio” bots.

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