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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yep.

Its why I never used Twitter.

Well, beyond creating an account when Elon basically accidentally bought it, to scream at him, untill in all likelihood, he personally banned me.

Twitter took off because celebrities and primarily Democrat politicians joined an used it as essentially a microblogging/messaging system.

Our first social steps into modern parasociality.

They were of course eventually more or less thoroughly routed and out-influenced by hordes of right wing 4 chan trolls, who were much, much more adept at understanding how information flow actually works on the internet.

... anyway, yeah, i more or less see lemmy and piefed and mastadon as the last sort of... strung together set of rafts, floating amidst a sea of corporate sponsored, literal insanity, at this point.