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@ eliza
2025-05-28 10:09:00
I actually don’t hate Elon at all. His public presence is so unbelievably suffocating if you are paying attention to him as a public figure that I just try to not pay attention to him or what he is doing in public as much as possible. This has been a good balance for me because I don’t dislike him. I’m neutral. I can actually appreciate aspects of his work and companies when I see it if it’s good. If it’s not good, I shrug and move on with my day.
As far as twitter goes, the censorship was so bad that I came desperately looking for nostr. X isn’t censorship resistant either. That specific issue couldn’t be resolved even under new leadership. I’m grateful that people understand that the censorship on twitter and other corporate tech providers was wrong. It was wrong and it’s still wrong.
What has made X so unbelievably insufferable was their monetization program. It incentivized horrible content. The vibe fell off. So you can technically mostly say whatever on X, if the platform is running smoothly, if the government hasn’t turned off access or done a takedown request BUT the vibe is off because rage-bait, boomer content is incentivized. It’s freeish speech to a bunch of bots and even then you have to pray that you are algorithmically blessed to get an opportunity to speak to bots. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.