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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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539 points donohoe | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source
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leakycap ◴[09 Jul 25 15:17 UTC] 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 ◴[09 Jul 25 18:06 UTC] 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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righthand ◴[09 Jul 25 18:11 UTC] No.44513158[source]▶
I think the “everyone is here” feeling is because the media outlets use it quite a bit. So even though mostly everyone is not on Twitter it felt like anyone who is anyone was on Twitter. I don’t really miss the FOMO that was intended to produce but I imagine if you played along it validated the FOMO some how.
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1. tonymet ◴[10 Jul 25 17:59 UTC] No.44523726[source]▶
i see your perspective. Until Musk , it included the scope of publishers that were 1-3 degrees removed from mainstream media and Hollywood.

Post-musk it’s been rebooted into engagement farms and quasi-right-wing influencers.

For the first few months it felt refreshing because all of the once censored (or downranked) spicy content now received visibility.

Now it’s pretty repetitive and lame in its own way.

Every time I open my mute list I resent using the app.