From my perspective Twitter has become more censorship prone than ever before after Elon took it over.

Also, for whatever reason, the quality of conversation has declined on Twitter since Elon.

'Censorship regime'? In the time since Musk took over twitter I've gotten right-wing tweets forced into my feed despite not following a single right winger and a ton of high profile people have been banned for speaking out about him.

Not to mention that old Twitter never hamfistedly censored people by straight up shadowbanning users for using the words 'mastodon' or 'substack' in their tweets.

You literally said Twitter is less of an echo chamber and that makes me upset. I enjoy seeing a wide spectrum of ideas.

I said nothing of the sort. Before Musk took over I pretty much exclusively avoided political content, now smoothbrained right-wing content is artificially forced into my feed. I pretty much stopped using twitter all together due to that and the api being locked down, it just isn't worth using anymore and I only ever end up there to read something someone links me before I immediately close the tab.

Your “Following” feed only contains who you are following so the smooth brained right wingers shouldn’t show up there. If you see a smooth brained right wing tweet in the “For You” feed you can mark it as “Not Interested” and the algo will stop suggesting smooth brained right wing tweets.

Your snark isn't needed. I'm obviously not a user of the 'for you' timeline and still got those artificially promoted tweets from people I don't follow and were not retweeted by those that I do. It's why I stopped using twitter and I see no reason to change that.

Watching the increasing polarisation of the public's opinion of Elon as he's inserted himself into the culture wars has been such a bizarre experience.

I guess by now he probably appreciates people going off the deep end for/against him.

That 'censorship regime' (your words, not mine) was doing a very good job compared to the clown running it today.

Everyone likes the censors when they are on their side.

Yes, but Twitter was arguably doing a reasonably good job of that part of their mission. You can debate about the business side, it's not easy monetizing something like that but they showed rather a lot of restraint and if they messed up they fixed things.

The people that see this differently are typically the same people who believe that 'the Twitter files' were revelatory, when in fact they weren't. Strong overlap there with eternal Trump supporters and various complot theory proponents, I'm not sure what degree of evidence would be able to convince people like that.

Somehow Elon's Twitter is even worse for anything remotely queer. I run into the "sensitive content" click walls any time I follow a link to anything on furry Twitter these days, and it's never a tweet that remotely warrants it.

I wasn't expecting anything different from a company run by the archtypical techbro. Musk is doing a lot of damage in a very indirect way: plenty of people see in him their justification for being jerks.

Am I right in that it's Poe's law[0] that's getting the workout today?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law