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And absolutely nothing of any value was lost. Unless you're a reporter needing a low-effort article, I guess.
Look, I know we used to call it the hellsite but I miss Twitter. I followed a million amazing artists and musicians and and Podcasters municipal politicians and activists and journalists. Real people doing real stuff.
Twitter was the place to follow all the Internet Famous creators.
And now it isn't.
Lemmy/Reddit is still the best workflow for following topics, but Twitter's flow was the best place to follow people. And now that's been broken up into Mastodon, BlueSky, Threads, and Twitter. Sucks.
People used to do RSS feeds. If you want that constant feed of information, you should subscribe to some--they still exist.
Tumblr is the hellsite