Charlie Warzel, writing for The Atlantic, has a story that most everyone with half a brain already knows.

Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler.

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Twitter has so fully assumed the role of a far-right platform that it might be killing its competitors. When Parler shut down in April, its parent company noted that “no reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more.” Left unspoken is the reason: Twitter has become a right-wing echo chamber.

If Musk weren’t too preoccupied lapping up approval from trolls, reactionaries, and Dogecoin enthusiasts — a few of the constituencies left on his site that still seem to adore him — the Parler statement should worry him. Right-wing alt-tech platforms may attract investors and a flood of indignant new users with persecution complexes, but they are, ultimately, bad businesses.

I get this, but I don’t use Twitter like other people. I have curated my follows and lists via Tweetdeck to be as perfect as can be. I don’t see the crap because it doesn’t get in my carefully crafted bubble.

I’m still on the platform, but I rarely post anymore and have taken off all or most of my previous postings. It’s not fun, it’s hard to use without Tweetbot on my phone although I have found an alternative with MarinDeck, which is a port of Tweetdeck.

If Musk gets rid of Tweetdeck, he’ll lose millions of followers. Including me.