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I use X and to be honest it just hasn't changed that much, at least from my perspective. I feel that the drama around it's "collapse" or "rebirth" is widely a p

I use X and to be honest it just hasn't changed that much, at least from my perspective. I feel that the drama around it's "collapse" or "rebirth" is widely a proxy for signalling your particular political views, and it really isn't that different to your average user. I don't pay for anything; not really worth it to me as a casual user. I follow a few hundred accounts and maybe a couple dozen have announced their departure. I find new people to follow often before and after. Seems there's a bit more spam lately. But it's not something I'm super invested in so the changes don't bother me enough to justify spending the time to curate a new list of followers on a new platform that might die in a year or two itself. Who knows what X holds for the future but if I had to leave I wouldn't stress over it either.

Grimblewald 3y ago
so basically your follow list is holding you hostage?
- chrisfosterelli 3y ago
  That's not quite what I said. The product experience has not changed sufficiently such that I'm motivated enough to pay the 'cost' of trying to find a better product experience elsewhere. 'hostage' is a strange word to use.
  - Grimblewald 3y ago
    Fair enough, I more so meant to ask if the core reason for you staying rather than transitioning to an equivalent service was the follow list. For example, if a tool existed that let you simply export/import your follow list to an equivalent platform, would you still stay for something you believe twitter does uniquely well? My big concern with twitter is it's main selling point was trustworthiness, which it has lost. Right now the one thing it seemed to do better than other platforms was combat misinformation, but now it is the same as other platforms, if not somewhat worse than some.
    - chrisfosterelli 3y ago
      Gotcha. The short answer is I'd stay, but not for something I believe twitter does uniquely well. A tool like that would make it easier to move away from Twitter for sure, so the motivation threshold for doing so gets lower. But the core reason is that I'm just not motivated to move away from it. It still does what I want more or less like it did before and it doesn't seem that any other platforms are doing it obviously better (at least right now).

Grimblewald 3y ago

so basically your follow list is holding you hostage?

chrisfosterelli 3y ago
That's not quite what I said. The product experience has not changed sufficiently such that I'm motivated enough to pay the 'cost' of trying to find a better product experience elsewhere. 'hostage' is a strange word to use.
- Grimblewald 3y ago
  Fair enough, I more so meant to ask if the core reason for you staying rather than transitioning to an equivalent service was the follow list. For example, if a tool existed that let you simply export/import your follow list to an equivalent platform, would you still stay for something you believe twitter does uniquely well? My big concern with twitter is it's main selling point was trustworthiness, which it has lost. Right now the one thing it seemed to do better than other platforms was combat misinformation, but now it is the same as other platforms, if not somewhat worse than some.
  - chrisfosterelli 3y ago
    Gotcha. The short answer is I'd stay, but not for something I believe twitter does uniquely well. A tool like that would make it easier to move away from Twitter for sure, so the motivation threshold for doing so gets lower. But the core reason is that I'm just not motivated to move away from it. It still does what I want more or less like it did before and it doesn't seem that any other platforms are doing it obviously better (at least right now).