Re:What do I think about Community Notes?(Vitalik Buterin)
by Fnoord on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:47PM
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I'm one of the 20k, but I never said I would leave. I just removed my account, simple as that. And I'm probably not the only one who left without fanfare. Why would I announce to leave?
The best estimate I've heard is that around 20-30k people really left, based on reported numbers over half a million. That seems about right, to me. 500k said they were going to leave, only 20k actually did.
Of course, why that pushed the site more rightward is likewise speculation. If those numbers are accurate, I'd guess that the people who did leave were the most politically or socially aggrieved, so they would be the exact people to have outsized impact on Community Notes. And given the actual impacts that I've observed, anecdotally, that tracks pretty well with how much further right Twitter got. Not "much" but noticeable to anyone not making excuses for it.