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Conflicted if this is actually good.
On one hand, Twitter has become a real neo-nazi platform that openly spreads misinformation/propaganda/rage-bait in the guise of 'free speech' with the owner also abusing their powers by stealing handles and censoring and whatnot. The world would be better off without it if it were to die.
On the other, Twitter is still quite a big name with a lot of influence, with alternatives being much more niche. If every decent person was to leave the platform and all that's left are neo-nazis and "good-faith-neither-left-nor-right-people-who-always-strangely-support-the-right", it's just going to make recruitment much easier.
I don't think so. If people leave and the only reputation you'd hear about the platform is that it's full of shit like that, you won't have any reason to start an account in the first place, since there's no "normal" content with which they'd first hook you in, before they can slowly start changing your views.
If the serious content remains, you'll get people signing up for that content, only to be slowly manipulated into whatever The Algorithm feels will drive the engagement (which is probably fascism). If there's nothing in the first place, you don't have that hook.
Let it die.
Shaming the platform is a great way to make fence sitters leave, even those that are "good-faith-neither-left-nor-right-people-who-always-strangely-support-the-right”" that don't want to come of as that kind of person will leave if staying there makes you look bad. KKK fell apart partially because of a shaming campaign if I remember correctly.