I love love love this insanely heightened rhetoric. Some are acting like something important is happening, when in reality it's just a shitty place that has largely been an echo chamber for left of center commentary and a slightly different way of consuming pornography and sports info than the rest of the Internet, becoming a slightly different kind of echo chamber that will still have all the porn and sports nonsense (and even the left of center commentary). Watching the mouth-breathers delight in their favorite dumbasses returning to the platform is almost as delicious as watching the crying from others that their favorite way to completely waste time is changing. The two main categories of interest for English speaking users on Twitter? Crypto and porn. Crypto and porn, and people are acting like the world is ending. This is not something to take seriously unless you work for Twitter and are about to have to go find a job at another company that provides nothing of value.
When McDonald's stopped using lard to make their shitty fries and started using vegetable oil to make even shittier fries, the world wasn't ending - many of us just stopped eating them. Those who kept eating them got even fatter. Twitter is of less significance to the world than McDonald's fries, but here we are acting like the world is ending. And I enjoy left of center commentary, porn, and sports info as much as anyone, but all of it is still widely available all over the damn place (even right here!). Twitter's only value to users was making it slightly easier to navigate. Not much of a loss. I get why many love the place since the orange one and his ilk were removed, it certainly became more enjoyable, but some of you are acting like humanity is at stake.
Twitter was in significant decline long before Musk came along, with its true active users (heavy tweeters) basically abandoning their accounts since at least the beginning of the pandemic. Musk's ownership may well be the final nail in the coffin, who knows? But the one thing we all know is that no one has to use Twitter that doesn't want to. You will not miss out on a single thing that can't be found elsewhere. Twitter was, is, and always will be little more than a shiny paper bag to put on your ugly date before you fuck. It's all still ugly underneath, but some have grown to love the mask as if it has substance of its own. Now the mask is being ripped off and some are crying about having to fuck an ugly date, as if there are no other alternatives.