X (Twitter) was experiencing user retention and expansion due to the previous management’s idea of ‘messing up the TL order to play with trends and promote fights’.Next, when Elon Musk pardoned and reinstated the accounts of Alternative Right, advertisers pulled their ads. This exposed the fact that social networking sites that depend on advertising revenue are controlled by the wishes of advertisers.
The cash-strapped centralized SNSs started subscriber businesses using monetization as a substitute for reduced advertising revenue, exposing the fact that “even spam aimed at the number of impressions can be more precious than the usability of unpaid users and all users.
Conflicts based on ideology and taste continue to occur to this day, and the fact that only the greatest common denominator of expression is allowed on a centralized SNS is exposed every day as numerous users’ accounts are deleted.
In other words, the freedom of users to customize the information they view and to say what they like is no longer possible in such places.
