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Bluesky Thinking

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Twitter was my favourite social media platform but I am convinced that Elon Musk is deliberately attempting to ruin it as part of a bet or prank. Like the 'Brewsters Millions' gambit of having to lose it all to win even more or 'Trading Places' bet amongst a couple of old rich guys just toying with the fates of others. Please excuse the ancient movie references, just look it up kids. Twitter has brought me so much over the years, information, laughs, surprises, piles of poker prizes, and at times a sense of community but it's become tainted and I want better. While the verification system on Twitter has been well and truly destroyed, I suppose for the most part Twitter is much the same as it was before, you just have the constant threat of dumb changes being implemented under the guise of fighting bots before the changes are quietly undone, things like the limiting of tweets you can see, not being able to look at tweets unless you login and such. But with talk of fu...