My hypothesis on this is that the zeitgeist has moved on from microblogging. Post Muskification, the whole thing fragmented into Mastodon / X / Threads, and no new leading platform emerged because the kids are all on Tiktok anyway. You can't find your friends on microblogs anymore. Meanwhile, professional conversation has migrated to LinkedIn.
> If important people would just quit fucking using it, it wouldn't be an important site.
Yeah, and if everyone would just agree to pinky swear to never engage in wars again and then fully disarm, we would achieve eternal world peace. All they gotta do is just stop doing those things.
Unfortunately, things don’t quite work as simply as the way you imagine they do in the real world.
Unfortunately, and astoundingly, nobody has bothered to create anything remotely competitive with Xitter, even at this late date.