Prior to Musk it wanted your access. Literally couldn't read other comments, or navigate it, without signing up. You got some crosslinked searches, via links, and browser searches. It started long before Musk. It wanted your details as it created more and more bots. Then as you signed up, it wanted to tell you what to say.
Musk provided a little more freedom of speech than its past assholes. But it's a confined illusion subjected to its rules and they amount to telling you want to say, collecting your details and otherwise surveillance of you, and your opinion. Of course Musk wants to profit off it. Subscriptions provide which advertisers and fees for businesses etc.
This is what media has become. It has become a larger joke.
The rest of your speculation is nothing else. Naive. Redundant. No public. No X. It was becoming such prior to Musk buying it. Less and less, people, bombarded by bots unless they praised the advertising in undying worship. It was banning everybody else, attacking them for everything they said. As it manipulated some of the most obnoxious narratives this Planet has seen. It amounted to pointless gossip.
It always was a surveillance platform.
Prior to Musk it wanted your access. Literally couldn't read other comments, or navigate it, without signing up. You got some crosslinked searches, via links, and browser searches. It started long before Musk. It wanted your details as it created more and more bots. Then as you signed up, it wanted to tell you what to say.
Musk provided a little more freedom of speech than its past assholes. But it's a confined illusion subjected to its rules and they amount to telling you want to say, collecting your details and otherwise surveillance of you, and your opinion. Of course Musk wants to profit off it. Subscriptions provide which advertisers and fees for businesses etc.
This is what media has become. It has become a larger joke.
The rest of your speculation is nothing else. Naive. Redundant. No public. No X. It was becoming such prior to Musk buying it. Less and less, people, bombarded by bots unless they praised the advertising in undying worship. It was banning everybody else, attacking them for everything they said. As it manipulated some of the most obnoxious narratives this Planet has seen. It amounted to pointless gossip.