[jdaw0]

>You would have thought that the people that most want to leave the site would welcome an alternative model that is specifically un-Twitter like.

I don't think this part is right though. Most of the people looking for Twitter alternatives at this particular moment aren't looking because they're unhappy with Twitter the product. They just want Twitter Exactly But With No Elon -- that's why half the word count of this post about social media is a rant about how the author dislikes Elon's version of futurism.

You're right about Twitter's addictive design, but that's what the people complaining want: to indulge their Twitter addiction without using Twitter.

[lapcat]

> They just want Twitter Exactly But With No Elon -- that's why half the word count of this post about social media is a rant about how the author dislikes Elon

This seems like a very strange interpretation of the article, titled "I don't want to go back to social media", where the first half is explaining why I don't want any alternative to Twitter, including Mastodon, and why social media is like an addiction.

[rchaud]

The concept of doomscrolling has existed since well before Musk. Twitter like all social media networks amplified divisive content, because anger and fear were empirically found to result in more screen time than the alternative of a chronological and predictable feed.

I do agree that people appear to have over-estimated their own appetite for an alternative.