• Garbagio@lemmy.zip
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      23 hours ago

      Honestly I wonder if this skews the data at all. 10 people use Twitter, 1 of which is fascist; 5 decent people leave, and now the site is 10% more fascist. Is that driving users more rightward, or driving off more left audiences?

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        20 hours ago

        Interesting. But the ratio and total users would both change. Are ppl actually quitting Twitter at all?

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          13 hours ago

          Since Musk bought it? Yes-ish. Per Business of Apps, Twitter has maintained around the same user counts, but that is through gains and losses across demographics. Women have fled the platform; what used to be fairly equal is now 2:1 men to women. US users are down 15%-20%. What has grown commensurately is right wing international users, further skewing the average political slant on the platform.

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    2 days ago

    Which was the purpose of Elon Musk buying it all along.
    The algorithms are fucking designed specifically for that purpose!

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      2 days ago

      There’s a surprising number of very stubborn and slightly delusional (they’ve convinced themselves they’re doing good by staying on Xitter and “fighting”) leftists on there unfortunately.

      I thought the Nazi salute would be the nail in the coffin but apparently those people can’t comprehend social media isn’t just a space like the person who owns it literally can control everything and easily manipulate you.

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        24 hours ago

        Celebrities they worship are still on there so another reason they refuse to leave.