So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

Spot the guy who has never worked with engineers.

Indeed to the last bit: he's going to quickly come up against GDPR, Californian Law and the shifting sands that are Privacy Laws once he starts dícking around with Twitter's data-collection. I'd not be surprised if in a month or two Musk Peaces Out on this, hires a factotum to take over de-facto running of the company and never darkens Twitter's doors again. Much to the relief of those blue-haired weirdos no doubt, agitated by Musk's ... well, musk. 😂

In any case, it's a decision that's entirely up to the employee in question. Personal responsibility dictates that if someone's distaste for any liberal-leaning corporate culture was that pronounced and that aggravating - well, individualism then says: go find a new job. Obviously there are mitigating factors with anyone's work situation; everyone's different. But swallowing a little deference to pronouns, inclusivity - or whatever else is the supposed Fall of Civilisation - is a small ask rarely overlapping. As you say: as long as they let the engineers and devs do the work asked of them - so what? How many in Twitter even care about St. Musk freeing them from those liberal shackles? Probably just that one SRE in the office, the quiet one nobody talks to or likes anyway 🤣

I worked for one of the major gambling companies, despite having severe reservations about the morality of the tech. we were building. Still do. The pay was good, the people in my orbit were good skins (with a whole range of hair colours), and so on. I was happy with the due diligence they did perform to counter addiction - but ultimately I could live with the cognitive dissonance. I've also worked for openly "liberal" American corporations, via the US office, and the few Trump supporters I knew of didn't spontaneously combust with the open political culture on show. But neither company forced employees to engage socially, politically or ideologically - it was always opt-in, always easily ignored. Which is often the point of this: don't like liberal culture? Then don't engage with it.

Meta does own Instagram (and WhatsApp), but they might have shot the arse off that too: Instagram now basically preferences "reels", ie short videos in an attempt to mimic TikTok. The algorithm now actively hides posts, even from those you directly follow, so many small to medium artists and creatives have found their presence diminish to the point of nonexistence. Christ even as I post this Instagram just threw a notification at me about "most watched reels in Ireland".

Here's a photographer I follow lamenting the ludicrously disparity between Instagram and the same photo posted on Twitter, as it happens. This would be a business account too, so an important arm of this photographer's career. Much fewer followers but more engagement. I daresay if a better artists/creatives sharing app came about it might kill Instagram quick enough.

My wife part times illustration work and while Instagram wasn't a focus or priority, she noticed her work plummeting from about 1000 likes per post, to about 100. I can't imagine how bad that'd affect someone actively monetising their account. You have this ludicrous scenario where artists make a video of their still image cos technically that's more important to the algorithm.