[manmal]

I was referring to the favorable state of Twitter OP was describing, which doesn’t hold up IMO.

> Obviously the people who use it think it's worth using

I‘m an ex heavy Twitter user. I primarily use it for keeping up to date with tech, but the signal/noise ratio is not great nowadays. I can see myself switching to Reddit and HN completely.

> the point the author rightly makes is that it will get worse

That remains to be seen, no? What’s the use of writing that a week after an acquisition?

[slantedview]

The author is definitely projecting, but he's basing his projection on real signals: increases in hate speech, advertisers leaving, mastodon currently trending, etc.