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Graph showing a 30% drop in UK users on Twitter since September 2023, which, the commenter says is on the back of a loss of about a third in the preceding months.
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But there's a difference between a political party ignoring their constituents and a social media platform where people don't want to interact with assholes. Social interaction, in general, is a series of echo chambers. You're not gonna invite the MAGA asshole everybody hates to your birthday to balance out the conversation because he'll rant about out how certain groups of people don't deserve rights when the cake comes out. You're gonna invite your friends who you largely agree with in your opinions and interests. We used to kick those kinds of people out all the time on the internet, and nobody had any issues with "echo chambers" back when forums were still the thing people used.
Social media isn't some public debate floor. It's the local pub.