[apparent]

> But Musk proceeded to destroy X’s business model by turning it into an extreme-right, Nazi-friendly cesspool, prompting advertisers to flee.

This is where he lost me. There are still plenty of liberals and independents on Twitter. It is not "extreme-right" and anyone who thinks so is either being dishonest or has no idea what the left-right scale of politics in America looks like.

[tastyface]

Nate Silver with the receipts: https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak...

Most of the top engagement on Twitter comes from the right.

[apparent]

> It’s not hard to notice that Twitter has become extremely right-leaning.

This is very different from X is "an extreme-right, Nazi-friendly cesspool".

[myvoiceismypass]

Try signing up as a new user and see what your new default follows are...

[tastyface]

You think Musk's rhetoric is not extreme-right? Want some quotes?

[apparent]

Did I ever say that? The characterization was of Twitter, not Musk.

[tastyface]

Musk's is the most engaged-with account on Twitter by far. Twitter is de facto his personal soapbox.

[TMWNN]

According to the media and on Reddit, since Musk bought Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads have collectively gained 70 bazillion users on seventeen different occasions, and have caused Twitter to collapse and disappear eleven times.

Meanwhile, in the real world, without Twitter, the video footage of the near beheading in Belfast would never have been seen by the world; yet another example of how it continues to make and drive the news.

Without the footage being available to all, the police and mainstream media would have continued to describe what happened as a mere "stabbing" or "assault" or "attack", as the media did for hours after it occurred. When was the last time anything, anything at all, happened after a Bluesky post?

[tastyface]

Yes, some great things happened in Belfast in response to that post. Boy, isn't it great that the totally centrist Twitter is still relevant.

(History will judge you people appropriately -- as it did the people grinning at lynchings in 1950's America.)

[TMWNN]

I apologize on Twitter's behalf for it no longer obliging in hiding events that go against The Narrative(TM). But, as we've been discussing, Bluesky is always happy to censor as much as you want.

[tastyface]

Enjoy having this content connected to your identity for the rest of time! You might be in for some unpleasant surprises later on.