And for the record, that anecdote is not a single data point. It is a single statement based off my observations of the hundreds of accounts I follow. My timeline is less active. That isn't because I use the site less. It is because cumulatively the accounts I follow are using the site less.

I'm using the site more now. Japanese twitter feels a lot more natural and nicer than it did pre-Musk.

Personally, I don't use twitter because I don't like it - and the recent changes make me dislike twitter even more than I did before. I wish more people would walk the walk when they talk the talk. Heheh.

I like reddit because it's like a very popular forum with subforums on gazillions of different topics, and there's a lot of stuff I enjoy on there because of that.

I don't understand how using reddit vs twitter is a political decision (in most use cases). They are completely different tools.

Ironically, probably musk haters.

I had a coworkers who probably despised Trump as much as Hitler, but she literally couldn't stop herself from doom scrolling his twitter account.

You don't need to make the app better to get more users, just increase engagement even if it's through the power of contempt. Just look at news channels that are always trying to make people angry.