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Twitter/X -- the site -- is essentially fine.

Twitter -- the community -- is dead and rotting.



Twitter the business pretty much killed itself. The ads in my following feed right now: Temu, Temu, Whatnot, Temu, Temu.

Maybe that's influenced by me blocking a lot of garbage ads? IDK.


Shouldn't ublock origin be stopping you from getting any ads?


App on my phone.


TWTR -- the publicly traded company -- dipped so badly that Musk needed to make it private. It's effectively less of a public commons now than it is Musk's investment on manipulating information.


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>Before Musk takeover certain opinions just weren't present and/or were actively silenced.

Care to provide some examples of "certain opinions" that were "actively silenced?"


Afaik, open nazi were actually silenced on twitter prior Musk. But, you could talking in euphemisms and it would be mostly fine. Also, when you went really really far with harassment.


Yes, that was rather my point.


Opinions regarding masking mandates and criticizing COVID-19 response in general, for example.


>Opinions regarding masking mandates and criticizing COVID-19 response in general, for example.

So they were cracking down on people spreading dangerous disinformation in the middle of a public health emergency. Okay.

What are some others?


I would like to know what you had to mute to make Musk's Twitter tolerable.


Gender-related discourse (both pro/contra), Israel-related (both), Crypto-currency. US election topics.


Does your feed have anything left?




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