yep, and happy to make everyone around them feel guilty when they got theirs. i strongly dislike people who do this performative crap while unfortunately believing in their right to say it.
x is arguable better than twitter ever was and most arguments are just political bias or elon hate. i feel like x is just as far-right and just as far-left as you make it now because the feed is tuned by engagement and followers, people who call it out or refuse to participate are just using emotionally politically charged points that are mostly untruthworthy because they are not objectionable. i find x to be the closest thing to a truly open platform now minus the expensive api costs and some other annoyances with premium etc(there are ways around it).
when you consider that they don't ban stuff only in rare cases of it being illegal content, articles are clean and easy and have real reach if you know what you are doing, no particular ideology is governing the platform other than if you just don't like elon and you refuse to participate. it's far better than it was prior and i have been a user of twitter/x since 2013. i really enjoy talking to the many people around the globe on x (mostly japanese which have a very rich X community).
that all being said, social media is a contagion for the masses, and i still run 3 sites regardless of having an x account(i deleted instagram,facebook, never used tiktok).
I've found awesome use cases for quick prototyping. It saves me days when I can just describe the final step and iterate on it backwards to perfection and showcase an idea.
Fred is quite literally only known for producing a platform that provides analytics on MMA fighting for the purpose of assisting gambling addicts at making a better gambling prediction, his second venture is writing negative opinion pieces about Tesla and focusing on the character persona that is Elon Musk. The ventures of Elon Musk have quite litreally proven he's a maker, not a conman. He has also won every lawsuit brought against him where half-truths are used in the public eye, but the moment it's in court the whole truth prevails, in almost every case.
He has a lot of enemies, ones he has made on his own, and those that envy what he has accomplished with the people that he has inspired to do the work. He is to some, an easy shortcut to fame because he is constantly putting himself in the public eye and welcoming risks. He has my respect, even with all his delays and set backs, he always seems to deliver eventually and that is not the same as conman with smoke and mirrors behind the curtain.
it's a pretty similar comparison to racial fairness groups pushing to get cops to have cameras and now they are pushing to have to not release the footage publicly because fear of racial bias.