I actually did quit Twitter and nothing will be able to make me go back there. Principles and all that. But I suspect that the fraction of people that followed through on their statement that they would leave Twitter is super small. I also haven't gone anywhere else and I feel much the better for it.

I too find democracy and free speech to be a great thing so long as everyone agrees with me, otherwise it kinda sucks /s

This does not follow.

Hey, can you please stop posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments? We already had to ask you that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34972773) and it's still mostly what your account is doing. We have to ban that sort of account. I don't want to ban you because you've also posted some fine comments - e.g. these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36234093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36125818

but unfortunately we have to moderate by the bad things people post, not the good things. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Thanks to LLMs traffic can be artificially boosted to the point where ghost towns feel like they have momentum. That problem just won't be getting any better.