I never found Twitter to be particularly useful and basically forced myself to use it. After Elon took over and 3/4 of my feed is him posting stuff, or stuff about him, I haven’t opened it in months. I have zero interest in some other company’s knockoff.

I’ll post a positive option to mix things up:

It’s a polished product, with no ads, no TikTok style video knockoffs, high quality photo uploads, and a decent recommendation engine. It has all the ingredients it needs for success.

Now, don’t get me wrong, Meta will likely ruin it eventually by A/B testing it to death to maximize revenue.

I agree with you! Imo it would be amazing if people would use the fediverse (i.e. mastodon) for their twitter experience but sadly for whatever reason it hasn’t worked. A lot of people who went to mastodon went back to twitter (I think? I read that somehwere so not totally sure)

But yeah I read a BBC article today that quoted Zuckerberg on some of his goals for the platform. The keyword I remember is ‘friendly’. And I liked how he talked about his vision for the platform in general.

Ofc Zuckerberg isn’t a saint but imo he isn’t anywhere near as bad as that loud mouthed prick Elon so if my favourite celebrities move there instead I’ll be happy :)

don’t give a shit

Literally couldn’t care less. I don’t use facebook if I can help it, I don’t use Instagram unless I’m linked to it, and I can’t imagine ever purposefully using the new thing.

“It’s like Twitter, only owned by Facebook.” Yeah no thanks man.