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Given St. Paul's reputation for left-wing activism, kinda surprised they were still on Twitter for this long.
There are a lot of leftists still "fighting the good fight" on Xitter, even if the platform is pitted against them and all they do is drive engagement to it. I never understood why some people can't bring themselves to leave. I left reddit for much less.
Habit is one hell of a thing.
Also for a lot of people, their social circle is partly there.
i.e. I use discord because my partners do so even if I know that it sucks.
Discord at least has community moderation tools. Xitter is just a town square where all the Neo-nazis and conspiracy theorists get louder megaphones than everyone else.
But the "my friends are there" is such a weak argument, imo. BlueSky exists. Spoutible exists. Mastodon exists. If they're IRL friends, they can just regroup elsewhere. If they're only online friends, you can make new ones pretty easily.
"My friends are there" is just a tacit admission that they don't mind sharing space with Neo-nazis.