This whole thing has been quite telling for me. I don’t use Twitter and am not a Musk fan, but seeing someone try something to move away from ad driven seemed like a good possibility for me.

Then I saw how bitter and nasty a lot of the online communities I belonged to were. I mention that advertisers were of course mad, the stated goal is to reduce reliance on ad revenue. I was met with people attacking me as an idiot with clickbait articles of “proof” that ad models were irrelevant to twitters problems etc, as if I was doing anything other than quoting musks official reasons for the purchase. Suddenly Twitter was this great beacon of graceful discussion and Musk has ruined it.

People just love to be mad, no one had anything nice to say about Twitter and in a flick of a switch they’re holding completely opposite opinions. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia, it seems