Anecdotally, it seems like most of my acquaintances have stopped using Twitter as a social network. Not out of principle, but because their feeds just stopped

Anecdotally, it seems like most of my acquaintances have stopped using Twitter as a social network. Not out of principle, but because their feeds just stopped having interesting conversations and the bad parts got worse. They still follow creators and news feeds, but their use seems passive and read-only. I was never the biggest Twitter user, but I wouldn't be surprised at a similar kind of outcome for Reddit. I've already noticed a nose-dive in the quality of my feed - it's mostly dominated by the smaller subreddits that didn't join the blackout, overall activity seems to have dropped off in an absolute sense, and when a larger subreddit makes it in my feed the conversation is just...nastier than it was a few days ago. I had to come out of HN-retirement to find a decent conversation about tech.