What are you talking about? I used to be able to interact with interesting people in the public sphere on twitter, now it's just a bunch of people verified that I never cared who they were anyway, and everyone I joined to follow has been gradually leaving.

My own account is still in a banned state for telling Microsoft they suck for making their OS bloated. Before I was off twitter, because fuck deleting a reasonable tweet to appease some censorship bot and its review team, twitter was less and less 'free' for anyone not worshiping that rich ass-hat.

Twitter was the only platform I could tell our public health director they were doing way more damage with their insane covid mandates than good. I even got replies from the dude. There isn't any other platform out there where you can do this.

So while Twitter is indeed a toxic hellhole, it is oftentimes the only way you can directly attempt to communicate with "the right people" in an organization.

You could do that. It was that platform. As it increasingly loses its universality in favor of incentivizing subscriptions, it will increasingly lose that position.

sounds like a need for something like a utility or public corporation.

Twitter should just be an open protocol like email. I.e. Mastodon.

Literally just RSS.

Twitter was a useful tool years ago... indeed.

That sounds like you were making Twitter a toxic hellhole by harassing a public servant trying to protect people's health. Maybe that's not what actually happened (possibly context makes it seem less bad) but that's what it sounds like

Banned for speaking the truth? Sad to hear of this.

you might have missed the covid era under twitter. or the presential elections. all before musk, all freedom altering events by a scale your "microsoft sucks" is a story you tell yourself to think you a justice warrior.

they even censored the president of your country but no Musk is the evil lol. Somehow I can understand that the average joe is deep into politics and biased because they want their team to win but in HN, between engineers, that like facts and concepts that are abstract can't we just say that censoring the POTUS was something unseen in any kind of social media platform and that was probably the biggest event that ever happened? whatever we think of the guy, he got trough where he was through the voices of millions of american and just banning those is a danger to freedom and democracy

"The Blue Elite" is the most unhinged concept to emerge from this whole thing.

why is that? people that are somewhat famous deserve a blue mark that favors them in many ways vs the normal people? unhinged?