Twitter is appointing Tesla CEO Elon Musk to its board of directors, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk will serve as a class II director until 2024. This is a type of position that can be used as an anti-takeover measure.
At least anecdotally leftists are much more common. I don't know if it will remain that way forever, but communities are given the tools to control moderation and signups such that they can carve out their own space similar to here (hexbear is fedi with federation disabled). Left-leaning instances have been good about defederating from chud instances like gab, etc.
I think my biggest worry long term is that if it becomes popular all the astroturfing and botting will make its way over, but I'm hoping the instance fragmentation will make it more obvious and easier to block.
Even with it being mostly lefties in my experience the platform itself sucks because it's built around the same mechanics as Twitter so it encourages dunking and dogpiling in the same way but due to the instance fragmentation you don't have access to what started the argument originally so misunderstandings snowball out of control rapidly
This is a good observation, and I've seen similar. It's a good reminder for FOSS devs that when you copy some proprietary app you're also likely importing some capitalist dark patterns, as well. Fortunately the underlying protocol is pretty generic and not specific to the Twitter model, so it's not a complete dead end.