Keep reading these articles wistfully eulogizing what we've collectively lost on Twitter and I think we're all forgetting that even before Musk
It was a toxic fucking abuse-hole that you could only really survive if you were super lucky
My Twitter account was closed because a bunch of trolls reported me for self-describing as "queer" (it's a slur, you see) and then some well-meaning but actually homophobic academics told me that this wouldn't have happened if I "kept it professional"