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I feel sympathy for the people who are required to use it for work. Most users could quit it and replace it with Mastodon, though.
I tried deleting my twitter just now.
The website is abysmally slow. I genuinely think they are throttling their deactivate account page to try stop users from leaving en masse.
That or else the site is not functioning correctly after Musk's optimizations'
Honestly, this is a pretty clear case where federation should win out. I answered someone above, but governments using a private service like twitter for actual public announcements imo is broken. I hope that Mastodon and federated services take off and turn into a turnkey style service somewhere. Like, setting up your own Mastodon (or Lemmy!) instance I hope turns into something just about as easy as setting up an email account.
With Twitter's dwindling user base and each, people should just jump ship and migrate to mastodon. It's honestly what Twitter used to be and better than everything Twitter is now nor what musk has turned Twitter into.