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I'm trying to acknowledge my bias in that a) I still use Twitter, and b) I don't really see it as demonstrably different in any way than it was a year or two or
by pc86 3y ago
I'm trying to acknowledge my bias in that a) I still use Twitter, and b) I don't really see it as demonstrably different in any way than it was a year or two or four ago, with the exception of a lot of people complaining about it being SO much worse.
So with that being said, what is unique about Twitter in that so many people feel the need to announce their departure like this? I stopped using Twitter for years in the mid-10s after 4-5 years of daily usage and certainly didn't write a blog post about it, and I started my freelancing career there. I've gotten jobs and met IRL friends on Twitter, it was an important part of my life especially ca. 2009-2012 or so.
- meheleventyone 3y agoThis guy is a professional opinion haver (aka analyst/journalist) which is why we get his opinion about it. Have there been many others because this one’s the first I’ve read and seems well thought out? I too left Twitter but just resurrected my Mastodon account and got on with life.
- meristohm 3y agoSome people (speaking as one) like to speak self-righteously about decisions they make. "I think everyone else should do what I do." Seeing that in writing, it sounds ignorant and foolish; how unimaginative to think that everyone else, if they even exist, has the same preferences and ways of interacting with others. To counter this impulse and recognize what I'm feeling so I can better decide what to do, I journal and meditate and go on observational walks, something everyone should of course be doing. Wink.
- lapcat 3y ago> I stopped using Twitter for years in the mid-10s after 4-5 years of daily usage and certainly didn't write a blog post about it, and I started my freelancing career there. How many Twitter followers did you have, and how many people would read your blog post? Evans has 389,000 Twitter followers, so his departure does have some salience to people other than himself.
- jasonpeacock 3y agoMy experience with Twitter was also mostly unchanged, I left because I choose not to support the new ownership. It's a classic example of "Then they came for _ and I did not speak out because I was not a _ ..." Leaving Twitter is how I can speak out, in my small way.
- rsynnott 3y agoThis person had 400k followers, so presumably felt the need to say something, rather than just vanish. Seems reasonable enough?
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- Kye 3y agoEveryone I knew on Twitter moved to Mastodon, Bluesky, or Cohost. Some of them still post sporadically, but it's clear they want people to move over by the URL that's replaced/joined most of their display names.