Gregory's ServerWondering how much longer it makes sense to stay on Twitter. On the one hand I only post about ways to get off Twitter. On the other hand.......... holy shit it's getting really bad over there
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@fred the moral cost of even having an account over there, given who is running it, seems higher every day @darius that, I can see. I catch myself opening the app and thinking "but what kind of hell am I deliberately walking into?" And then I close it. I do, however, miss the people that are there and never left. @darius I was just thinking about how you had the right idea with friend camp years ago. I've been off twitter for a month now and it feels great.  @roadriverrail I just wonder if I can make my presence a net loss for him. Maybe I can't @darius @roadriverrail I look at it this way: he actively brags on mere engagement numbers. Any content on that site, favorable to him or not, is pure numbers. You can't tweet him into submission. Plus I've found the reprieve from the site to be much more peaceful At this point the only appeal of Twitter is the trainwreck itself. It's hard to look away. @darius i moved all my follows who have masto accounts over today using fedifinder, and deleted the app. I’m trying to leave it but leave my account there as an empty husk. It’s hard to break the habit, may take several tries I want to say that this is not about staying in touch with people over there. I have other ways to do that and Fediverse has been my main social media since 2018. This is about weighing the good I can do over there as a fediverse ambassador versus the various harms of staying there  @darius I wasn't good at using two similar social media platforms, especially when the other one started to suck in comparison. Left my profile over there, but changed the name, description and URL to lead here. Nowadays only retweeting Mastodon related tweets and that's it. Haven't been missing it one bit. @darius I've been thinking the same. I realized that outside of one niche group that I haven't figured out how to get over here, 75% of my Twitter usage I want to retain is consuming notification feeds (e.g. National Weather Service, local fire incidents) that I'm sure I could get in here/another consumption tool easily. If more journalists moved over, that would be the other 25% I want to keep. I think my goal will be not to log in again after March 31st. @darius I’m not clear on what would have material impact on the billionaire chaos agent, if anything. Still not convinced he’s not ripping it all apart for the benefit of his banks  @darius send a tweet for me, let it say "if you are reading this, you're supporting a fascist right now. log off" or similar verbiage
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 @darius i almost impulsively did it today while making lunch, but realized i wanted to have a think first lol but probably joining ya this week as well
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@brook my thought is that it's important for me to not dignify Twitter as a canonical namespace. Let a million impersonators bloom and let Twitter become as canonical as clownpenis.fart/tinysubversions As I said elsewhere in this thread re: "what if someone takes your old username and impersonates you?" I've given this a lot of thought and I've realized that it's important for me to not dignify Twitter as a canonical namespace. Let a million impersonators bloom and let Twitter become as canonical as clownpenis.fart/tinysubversions  @darius wait if you’re not clownpenis.fart/tinysubversions, who have I been sending all this Venmo money to? @darius The decision I made is to deactivate my account. It doesn't permanently delete until 30 days later. I am checking in every 2-3 weeks and then deactivating. It is interesting after being off of it for nearly a month. I recently checked in. It's odd and uncomfortable. There are things trending there that are somehow boosted in my algorithm trend that I have absolutely no interest in; and I do not see these "trends" percolating out to the real world. It really is an artificial trend bubble. @vruz you will notice that I said "it's important for me". Anyone else can do as they please. I am speaking from my experience and in fact was very careful to word my statement in a non prescriptive manner. @darius This is a good way to look at it! ^^ I think it's harder for a lot of folks who have included their Twitter handle in all the media/content they've created over the past few years. So disengaging from an old username isn't as simple for them. :\ @Rheall I object to "isn't as simple for them" because I also did this for ten years of stuff I've made. Totally understand that it's hard though and not for everyone! @darius in all my years of reading twitter, I've written nothing. But I still feel like retaining the tag, idk. Here in the fediverse I might write something.  @darius this makes a lot of sense. I just stopped engaging in the platform and posting since he announced his intent to purchase, but I have been hesitant about deleting my account because of breaking links. but maybe I should accept that those links are effectively broken already...  @darius it feels like a bad horror movie with an ending going on way waaay too long when I just want to get dinner and go home @darius Once I didn't have a twatter account, and took the app off my phone, I stopped getting the pushes to (re)sign up, too. So, still available for perusing, but I can't upvote or reply, which isn't much of a burden.  @christa yeah. Although even my posts seem to be going into a void over there so enough of my network might be gone such that I can't usefully amplify things anymore anyway @darius I made the mistake of checking in over there and you’re not kidding. It’s basically all Elon all the time. @darius the problem I have with quitting entirely (as in, deleting my account), means that someone else can then grab my handle. I don’t want some memelord running around calling themselves numberless. @darius I dislike the experience every time I go, I don't know why I keep visiting. FOMO I guess. Considering blocking at the router to break the addiction. |
@darius not disagreeing, but: in what ways do you define "getting really bad over there"?