Just last night I unfollowed everyone on Twitter and kept only the lists I use for travel. There are some hard to replace twitter services/accounts related to w

Just last night I unfollowed everyone on Twitter and kept only the lists I use for travel. There are some hard to replace twitter services/accounts related to weather, travel, roads, snow, etc. I have equity in my Tesla. I would replace it with another vehicle that connected to the supercharger network, but no one has taken Elon up on that. Elon’s an issue, but open social and algo feeds are the biggest problem. Not being able to get away from recommended content is an enormous problem. It’s the open dunking, hot takes and karma posting that finally did me in. Elon’s just another tweeter, really. But I don’t need it. I don’t want exposure to any of it. And I’m won’t endure another election cycle on social media. And truth be told, more than half of the posts I write on HN I delete immediately. It feeds on a part of me that isn’t necessary to keep alive. I have some creator accounts. I’m a YouTuber. One of the benefits of that platform is I don’t have a super direct & immediate conversation with my audience or the accounts I follow. I consume a lot of YouTube, but the hard work and displaced temporalness of the content makes it generally more thoughtful and kind. Twitter has this sense that it represents the current global POV, which I never get on YouTube. It is really hard work to put together a 10 minute YouTube video, usually 4-8 hours, and keeping/growing an audience is easier when you aim your tone a bit higher. The disconnect and lack of immediacy removes a lot of the bad temptations. Not all of them… but it’s better for me. It’s not just Elon on Twitter, but Elon was my tipping point.