I’d argue that the things you don’t like about twitter have more to do with its business model than tweet-form content in general.
None of them, but that's fine. People moving to Mastodon believe that communities can largely self-moderate, by aligning with the owners and kicking out people who don't play by their rules. Twitter is arguably the same, but it tries to be all things to all people and fails. Mastodon instance owners aren't trying to be that. They only want to keep a small number of people happy. That's a much easier job.
I think it works quite well. Mastodon instances aren't ever going to be a platform to broadcast a message to the public to like Twitter tries to be, but that's OK. There's a place in the world for lots of things that aren't Twitter.
It is the bottom that internet communities raced to.
People choosing to leave Twitter aren't convinced that's true. They believe it will get worse.
Not entirely true, my server has a content moderator - it's me, moderating my own content, which is the only content that can be posted on there.
> communities can largely self-moderate, by aligning with the owners and kicking out people who don't play by their rules
What is "kicking out people who don't play by their rules" if not "content moderation"??
The dumbest, silliest, and rudest comments and commenters get promoted on Twitter (and Facebook etc), because that gets the most clicks. Get rid of all that manufactured promotion, and what's left is a quieter space where users can self-organize their own communities -- more like a chill party or friendly conference hallway than a staged political rally.
When you borrow money at an obscene interest rate during a leveraged-buyout, the fastest way to pay your creditors is to cut headcount if history serves correctly.
I have seen no numbers indicating they were losing anywhere near that per day looking at their published financials.
They seem to have lost $221M in 2021[1] which would be ~600k/day but that seems to have been influenced by an $800M lawsuit loss - that would imply they had (theoretical) profits of ~$580M for 2021.
[1] https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-posts-loss-2021-stock-1301280...
I suspect he might be shading things - AFAIK they have $4M/day loss now because of the $1bn debt obligation he loaded with the leveraged buyout.
Like saying you have to cut your workforce because 3 of your 4 factories burnt down when you set those fires yourself...
I am shocked there are as many people here not taking the time to look into the financials of that deal and are assuming Musk is some sort paragon of finance.
Regarding twitter itself, I also think twitter has an uphill battle (to say the least) to be profitable and maintain relevance in this climate. I think Elon will try different routes (some combination of twitch, YouTube for creators) just before call it quits but let's not forget that twitter is still the extra! extra! Read all about it!" Platform. There's no other one to even come to mind when you want to know which news is happening ATM.
Heck, he could enter in some sort of agreement with news outlets and add realtime video capabilities attached to trending tweets, etc...
Firstly, let's assume that we are upset with twitter firings enough to quit twitter. Moderators, accessibility teams, etc - we consider them important enough that we leave when they go, and go to mastadon? Which has how many content moderators?
I'm no fan of elons style, but he's not wrong that a company losing 4m a day is sustainable. And saddled with 13b of new debt to pay off the old owners won't help.
Advertising won't save twitter. That's been tried and failed.
While there are edge cases where twitter is valuable, the vast majority is just noise, and not in a good way. The one-line sound bite has been co-opted by politicians and celebrities, to to little more than gain attention. It panders to the over-simplification, it eschews serious discussion of nuanced viewpoints. It is driven by those seeking attention, when absolutely any attention will do.
It is the bottom that internet communities raced to. Overall I think a world without twitter is better than a world with twitter, regardless of which platform it ends up on.