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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by 1270018080 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @02:52AM (#36583110)
The persecution fetish many right wingers had over twitter didn't really play with the vast majority of users. Twitter existed for normal people acting normal, not for "lefists".
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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by saynay on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:47AM (#36584873)
It existed for advertisers. All the "censorship" being moaned about is because brands would stop advertising on the platform if Twitter couldn't give reasonable guarantees that their ads would not run next to extremely toxic content.

This seems pretty self evident, since most of them left as soon as Musk took over with the promise to stop policing the platform.

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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by DANmode on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:52PM (#36589267)
> Biden campaign flagged tweets in lead-up to the election

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/12/03/elon... is where a summary of the most neutral analysis on this "debate" can be found.

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