I think it's cool that they're actively trying to innovate in this space and relatively in the open.
My favorite is when someone complains about their view count or something and head of product replies with screenshots or stats showing the person promoted some crypto scam or is AI slop. Sometimes he agrees and addresses the complaints.
Compare that to other PR bots that say "sorry you experienced that, send us a DM". What other social network is actually trying to innovate and engage w people in the open.
The move to include people's country of origin was also brilliant. It was eye opening when so many accounts that were v interested in American politics turned out to be from se asia.
Back in the day I had 4 twitter accounts for different interests, I would see tech talk on one, art or photography on others, it was great, each felt like a connected but different corner of the same world.
I left over a year ago when all of them just became dominated by the same nft and crypto posts everywhere. Couldn't scroll my timeline without seeing fake BBC news articles promising "David Attenboroughs best crypto investment " whatever account I was in. I'm not sure cleaning up a mess they made themselves is really "actively innovating", but I'd agree the country thing would have been interesting back when I used it
In turning into a far-right echo-chamber? Of the direct competitors, only Threads is closed. Mastodon has no ~algorithm~ discover feed, Bluesky is completely open source.
I'm sure this is no good deed on Elon's part. Everything he does is some ulterior motive or someone is forcing his hand. Or maybe he just wants to show off for his sycophantic buddies.
Pasting another reply that is mysteriously [dead] without being flagged (maybe a site bug?):
Maybe it would be nice if we didn't apologize for people who throw Nazi salutes in public? Elon doesn't deserve your kindness or consideration. It isn't political to say that Nazis are bad and people who sympathize with them are bad.
Yeah sure, going from an open-source social media algorithm to people throwing Nazi signs (not even the person that published it) is a bit completely out of place but alright, let's stay stuck on that for the next 50 years.
Twitter is a haven for unabashed white supremacy and other unacceptable ideology, owned and run by a fascist who holds similar views. If one uses it, one is, at minimum, expressing that they tolerate those views.
Calling the site and its users out is not out of place, and I will continue to do so until it is no longer such a place or it is gone, whether that happens in 6 months or 50 years.