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Does anyone else feel as though Twitter-now-X has somehow gone, in recent times, from being a questionable but tolerable hotspot of widely used, observable huma
by crtified 3y ago
Does anyone else feel as though Twitter-now-X has somehow gone, in recent times, from being a questionable but tolerable hotspot of widely used, observable human interaction, to becoming a tacitly hostile, alienating door-closed-in-your-face non-entity?
I was never an active user of the thing, but at least I interacted with the site - via links, etc - on a regular, if minor, basis. It was a Thing, it had (for better or worse) global influence, and even a form of purpose, in the name of fast, ubiquitous human intercommunication of news and such.
Now, it's like the whole thing just doesn't even exist anymore. Or barely. Swathes of its purpose (such as it was), brand, and presence have just been ... wiped out. The only news on X that seems to make it to the mainstream any more, is news about X - such as this very topic.
It is difficult to fathom.
Surely Elon would enjoy his life more had he never become involved with the whole thing.
- bravetraveler 3y agoI'm with you. I was never really a user, having an account but never signing in/posting. Now... any references I see to it are entirely not engaging (ie: no threads). If I go to the home page I can't see anything, I can't log in. I deleted my unused account at the news of a change in ownership. Not due to some strong beliefs or anything, I just thought - why keep an unused service when their terms will surely change? Anyway, I must be linked to get the slightest morsel. Sure, some people may follow the pattern and sign up - but I (and others) don't, so it's inherently insulated. This limits the impact both to/from Twitter. It generally feels less significant; at least to those outside, but maybe my FOMO is broken.
- nradov 3y agoNo. I haven't noticed any changes in the accounts that I follow.