There's a third option in which Elon gives up Twitter to less emotional management who will hopefully undo some of the platform destructive choices he took.

There's a reason people don't use Voat, reading blue badge twitter is very reminiscent of that.

People don't use voat because it shutdown 2 years ago... Voat had an extremely poorly designed server architecture that cost about 100x what they needed and had frequent outages. The founders were very unreceptive to suggestions and IIRC even wanted to make the site costly to maintain because they thought it would look good to investors.

The problem was never any site architecture issues.

No one used Voat because it was a link aggregator for shrieking hatred and people uncivil enough to get banned from any platform with etiquette rules.

I think you’re both right at different levels: the only way a pariah site can survive is by being cheap enough that a few dedicated people can fund it – 4chan/8chan stuck around for years despite no sensible investors or advertisers wanting to be seen anywhere near them because their operating costs didn’t require huge resources. Sites like Voat or Truth Social, and now Twitter, suffer because they try to be like mainstream platforms but can’t generate the same kind of revenue.

Oh look here today’s idiot

So my option is to choose Elon's right wing echo chamber? (Of course, one doesn't have to pick Threads - the ultimate outcome on Twitter's traffic is the same.)

The Blue echo-chamber* is so, so much worse.

* Because Elon has become politicized, paying for Twitter Blue has become politicized. Because of this, the people paying for Blue are people politically aligned with Elon. As Twitter Blue replies are boosted to the top of any reply section, there is an inherent echo-chamber in Twitter replies these days.

You know what? I was just talking to my mom and she kept asking ”When are we finally going to get that left-wing echo chamber we've been talking about all these years?”