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    Are the Libs Really Leaving?

    Twitter would have to become functionally worse, and something else would have to be obviously better.
    by Kaitlyn Tiffany Nov 02, 2022 5 minutes
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    Ever since Elon Musk announced his intention to acquire Twitter, take the company private, and introduce a new era of free-speech absolutism, users have been threatening to leave the platform—a threat that has been likened to those made by liberals during the 2016 presidential election to move to Canada.

    Musk officially took over the company last week and has already been stomping through it . Many Twitter users (including the ) have that they will be abandoning the site specifically because of their disdain for Musk and his values. Meanwhile, various outlets have run detailing available Twitter alternatives, and high-profile Twitter users have announced () their intention to move to Mastodon, an open-source, decentralized Twitter look-alike. That platform has been around for six years, but it’s . Regardless, it is openly on the moment and signed up about 100,000 new users over the weekend.

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