It feels this way. I feel like I see the same 10 people who are talking about building and being a 10x developer but have 100k tweets and probably liked by the same 1000 accounts, 20% of them being bots.
On Twitter, I never use to get spam DMs but now it is a daily occurrence. I never blocked anyone over 10 years but now I am blocking multiple people per day. I used to never see anti-semitic content, but now I run across it regularly (even though I don't follow similar accounts). I still enjoy interesting discussions on crypto and genAI tech/trends but that is probably not a broad enough audience to be sustainable for Twitter/X.
They have lost most of their advertisers and serious users, because content has been driven into extreme corners. The platform is now full of bots, scammers and problematic opinions on the political spectrum. Latest I heard, they value of the company has gone down to less than half of what Elon bought it originally.
The only who are doing well on Twitter are crypto-scams, Nazis and trolls. But it seems Elon is now in those bubbles active, so maybe that was the intention all along?
I mean, I used it about 30 mins/day before, now it’s like 10 or less. Personally haven’t felt the need to find a Twitter-replacement, you just do other stuff more, I guess? It’s like dropping a hobby. You don’t replace it with an exact replica, it just wears off.
Works fine when I log on. At the beginning of the Musk era, everyone said the technology would fail. That hasn't been my experience. Plenty of tweets appear when I go to the site.
Now you might argue that the social networks are failing. There are definitely some people who I don't see any more.
But really, there are discussion and I can read them when I want.
It may be my bubble, but so many of my followed accounts have left, or stooped using it mostly, that my timeline is almost entirely US politics[1] and meme videos
Now that discussions are ranked by pay, when you read a tweet thread it seems to be just all onlyfans promotion quasi bot accounts but paid blue check, even on machine learning threads and stuff.
Posts show up, but there are far more bugs, and the general experience is slightly worse in lots of ways. Also, the overload of sycophants, trolls, and obvious bots has made it a lot noisier than it used to be.
Can't read anonymously anymore, which makes it more like facebook/instagram rather than a grassroots news site (which it used to be for a lot of people). It's a big loss I think.
Yeah, I used to occasionally click twit links when friends shared in chats or they were included in articles. Now I just don't bother because I either see the first of multiple posts in a "thread" or nothing at all. Much like when someone posts a link to Facebook or Instagram.
You don't even need SEO chum and AI generated "content" to understand why search engines suck so badly nowadays. The discussions that used to happen on (indexable) forums, blogs, and comments have largely moved behind pay- or login-walls.
The fact that so many people resort to appending "reddit" isn't so much a testament to the quality of reddit so much as it's a result of that being one of the few large, centralized platforms that could still be indexed.
For me Facebook is hit-or-miss. If the post is public (say, a venue posting about an event) I can typically read the main post, but can't click on anything. If I'm on mobile, it tries to redirect me to install an app. Usually harder to see much.
Instagram just shows me a Meta logo or a blank page. Not sure how much this is due to ad-blocking though, and not particularly inclined to disable it to find out. Mostly I just don't click and I ask the friend/whoever to summarize or send a screenshot if it's something I care about. For generic "hey look at this funny post" stuff I just skip it.
Sucks, because links from friends should be fun or useful. It's kinda nuts how many don't work unless you are logged into something snoopy/sketchy.
I do not know about features, that may be true. But unfortunately Twitter seems to be in austerity mode. Unlike most sites, it is not working for wast majority of internet users.
It's doing better than ever IMHO. Much more information due to less censorship and government interference, and the community notes keep things in check with much less bias than the "fact checkers" ever did.
You mean the community notes that have been disabled for the CEOs account? The account that needs community notes more than any other account on Twitter?
> Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk. The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership, according to self-reported data.