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There are substantial differences in the way the site works. It no longer privileges genuine celebrities; the "blue check" is for sale cheap. And it's heavily

There are substantial differences in the way the site works. It no longer privileges genuine celebrities; the "blue check" is for sale cheap. And it's heavily used by people with deeply unpleasant opinions, which tend to be more heavily promoted. The network effects of communication mean that your entire experience becomes more filled with that unpleasantness. People left because Twitter was no longer enjoyable to them. The changes shifted the equilibrium that made the community work, and they left. Some of that was just exemplified by Musk himself, who is a deliberately abrasive person, and made changes that amplified other abrasive people. He made a big deal about the right to speak, and so he has it. But he seems to have missed that other people have the right to not listen, and people's fear of losing that right drove them off the platform even before their feeds degraded.

Podgajski 3y ago
> And it's heavily used by people with deeply unpleasant opinions, which tend to be more heavily promoted There’s absolutely zero evidence for this. It shipped to the community all right it shifted it from being biased to being more open. I know people don’t like that, but I would prefer an open conversation rather than one dominated by a particular bubble. There is no right not to listen that exist anywhere. But there is a right to free speech. You can still block people on Twitter all you want are you can even not go onto Twitter. But if you want to be in the public Square and you’re an advocate for free speech, then you can’t tell other people to shut up because it’s invading on your “right to listen“. That has to be the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard and you’re probably one of the people who left Twitter.