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"They need us. We don't need them:" The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (www.salon.com)
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[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Offline?

If your main social network is on fire, you're probably just going to put the phone down and do something else, especially if you're not on another social network.

The learning curve with getting used to a new one might be a more than what most people really want to do with their time and energy, so they might just be curbing their Twitter use.