It got worse but it didn’t become a truly toxic cesspool until Elmo bought it.
It’s not like the majority of the site was toxic, either. It was THE site for science, comedy, music, and a bunch of other interests until recently. It’s like picking a couple shitty instances/communities we have here and declaring the entirety of the fediverse a toxic cesspool.
Twitter was no worse in that regard than any social media site until the 2016 election.
2016 was 8 years ago, that means by your definition twitter spent nearly half it’s existence as a toxic cesspool
It got worse but it didn’t become a truly toxic cesspool until Elmo bought it.
It’s not like the majority of the site was toxic, either. It was THE site for science, comedy, music, and a bunch of other interests until recently. It’s like picking a couple shitty instances/communities we have here and declaring the entirety of the fediverse a toxic cesspool.