I agree; the haters have politically-motivated brainworms. The actual user experience is a lot better now than when Dorsey was in charge, especially if you live outside of North America.
Musk is actually making HN and Reddit worse because people cannot stop talking about him.
At some point, you have to ask yourself if it's worth typing out and posting something that would be ChatGPT's response to "write a Hacker News comment decrying Elon Musk".
As a pretty avid Twitter user, I'm still enjoying it.
The article is about another part of the twitter ecosystem shutting down. If talk of twitter’s decline annoys you, maybe there are better places to spend your time?
In terms of actual content it's a very marginal difference for the vast majority of people I'm sure.
Slightly more people posting angry outraged tweets != twitter content being significantly worse.
The technical failure complaints/predictions will probably find more purchase on HN, despite the feeds being much of the same.
I'm very skeptical Entertainment Tonight style negative PR for Twitter's business ops is what is bad for Twitter as a product for normal day-to-day users. Note: I'm not talking about what's bad for society, if that's what mattered The National Enquirer wouldn't have topped newspaper sales long ago.