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leakycap ◴[] No.44511088[source]
When I saw this news, my first thought was that she lasted about 1 year and 11 months longer than I expected after the first few weeks.

I know Twitter had many terrible aspects, but I do miss the world voice old Twitter provided for quotes that could be engaged with in an "everyone is here" kind of feeling that doesn't exist on any other platforms right now.

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tonymet ◴[] No.44513115[source]
Can you drill into "everyone is here"? Prior to twitterfiles, Twitter felt overly corporate .

I agree it's pivoted into another community. A lot of the mainstream and left leaning contributors have been downranked or moved to other platforms.

But Twitter hasn't felt like raw, egalitarian conversation since 2009

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aorloff ◴[] No.44515584[source]
> Prior to twitterfiles, Twitter felt overly corporate

Your take on a highly selective propagandized "expose" done internally by a corporation raider who just raided the corp that he is exposing, is to say that before oligarch took over things felt a little "corporate" ?

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1. tonymet ◴[] No.44523607[source]
Social media is obviously censored and editorialized. Twitter files was just a turning point – I’m not saying it was a liberation.

Yes it’s been corporate for a long time. Now it has a different sort of editorialization – hard to describe it. Yeah maybe influenced by a cabal of techno-libertarian VCs like Musk & Theil – hopefully that will be better revealed in a follow up expose

It was certainly corporate beforehand, though. Maybe you preferred that version if it– that’s fine. (Edit: grammar)