It's a shame that Musk's politics are a distraction from the ways that Twitter has become hostile and worse for non-political reasons. That was the first place I became aware of hyperlinks causing posts to get hidden or downranked.

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xp84 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair, Twitter was always making terrible product decisions. They were just doing it with 3x the staff and spending back then.

	▲	chihuahua 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The book "Hatching Twitter" is a pretty eye-opening history of Twitter from the very beginning. If true, Twitter pre-Elon was run by people with strange product opinions, in a fairly dysfunctional, ineffective way. Jack Dorsey, who comes across as a grade-A weirdo in the book, was first pushed out and later reinstalled in a palace coup.

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steve1977 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One could argue the two (Musk's politics and Twitter's actions) are related

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charcircuit 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

X's algorithm no longer downranks for using links.