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X persists because too few people want to leave it. It is not uncommon to see someone post there about a damaging change to moderation policies, a viral lie, or some hateful content, and then continue to contribute to the site. As if they were somehow not part of the sequence of events that led to the damage done. They are not stuck in traffic – they are traffic. Progressives, left-wingers and liberals continue to supply free content and free engagement to Elon Musk’s company, which then sells their eyeballs to a still substantial number of advertisers. That sustains the baseline level of cash required to keep shifting the rules of the site so that they favour Musk’s cruel, hateful and racist right-wing ideology.