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LOL WTF are you talking about? The only reason these platforms are able to abuse the absolute shit out of their users is because they refuse to leave. If there's anything we've learned in the last 3-4 years it's that users absolutely do not leave platforms no matter what (at least not in any significant numbers). Not Reddit, not Xitter, not Facebook or IG or Threads, not Windows, and not Discord.
People left MSN Messenger and Skype before, my dude. There's just so much the average user can take.
Remind me: how many million users did those platforms have?
Enough to matter.
Except it doesn't. Twitter and Reddit etc. has done everything they can to drive users off their platforms and still they don't leave.
Actually, they did. 90% of Twitter's activity now is bots. The only people left are either artists who are completely delusional about their numbers (they have like 13k followers but barely get 200 likes), or mega nazis. Everyone else is no longer there and has moved to places like Bluesky or Mastodon. In fact, I myself never made it past 150 followers on my old twitter account and I had that one for 12 years. My current one has 82 followers and never climbed past that. Bluesky tho? I already have 170+ followers in less than two years of owning the account, and many other artists reached their Twitter follower count in a tiny fraction of the time.
A good portion of reddit threads are also riddled with bots, so it LOOKS like nobody left.
LOL is Joe Biden a bot? Clinton? Obama? Corey Doctorow? Molly White? Every politician and public figure in existence? Where's your evidence for this?
You have multiple search engines at your disposal, my man. Just search for it. Also, almost every single post of those politicians has thousands of bot replies and the pattern is always there every time someone with a high follower count posts.
Ah ok, thanks for confirming you have no evidence.
I'm not your nanny. Google it. The actual estimates back in February 2025 were around 70%. Right now it's probably even worse.
I'm not Googling anything because (I don't use Google and) I already know you're wrong.
Okay, keep on believing that real normal people are still on twitter. I'm sure you'll have fun with denying reality about how everyone you see in there is either a meganazi or a bot disguising as one with the occasional furry artist who deluded themselves into staying.
Ah yes the notorious meganazi bot Joe Biden...