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And this time - they're definitely leaving. Not like the first time when people tried Mastodon, or the original Bluesky private invite migration, or when Thread

And this time - they're definitely leaving. Not like the first time when people tried Mastodon, or the original Bluesky private invite migration, or when Threads became available to the public, or when Nostr was popular, or when people decided they wanted to write Medium and Substack essays instead of Tweets, or even when Bluesky went public access. Nope, it's all different now. Those people that didn't somehow stop using Twitter when the timeline switched to crypto and then again to extremist politics have absolutely grown a spine now. They're tired of using the first-party Twitter client and not having any API access, they're tired of consuming ads constantly, and they're desperate for the peace and quiet of a social media that isn't dominated by celebrity identities and pissing contests. As someone that has never made a Twitter or X account in my life, nothing is funnier to me than the Stockholm Syndrome of that site's users, who refuse to leave it no matter how unusable the experience becomes, because they follow 2 people they consider important. It was funny when people licked Dorsey's shit-encrusted boot the first time around, and it's even funnier watching those same users claim they don't support extremist politics but do fund it with their ad revenue.

paulpauper 2y ago
Yup, this time we are leaving for good...we MEAN it
noman-land 2y ago
Hear me out. Try, just once, imagining those people who want to leave but can't like you might imagine an alcoholic who wants to stop drinking but can't. Or a teen who wants to stop binge eating and purging but can't. Addictions come in all shapes and sizes, and this attention/information addiction is new enough to where many don't have a defense mechanism for it. Likely most of us will develop strategies to maintain healthy habits and, indeed, some of us have. Some never will. It's not ridicule that people with addiction need. It's help.
- talldayo 2y ago
  America can't help itself. We can't outlaw cigarettes with a direct deterministic study linking it to cancer, we couldn't unhook ourselves from cable news even when the internet threatened to make it obsolete. It's the same people exploiting the same vulnerable idiots from 20 years ago, with a new coat of paint and a few fresh staff members. I can't help these people besides socially pressuring them in a reciprocal manner to how social media pressures them. I don't just scorn their usage of Twitter, I outright do not acknowledge their existence insofar as it pertains to members-only media platforms. If the image of their digital soul being owned by an online corporation does not motivate them to find healthier means of self-expression, they are a slave to regressive machinations I cannot change.

paulpauper 2y ago

Yup, this time we are leaving for good...we MEAN it

noman-land 2y ago

Hear me out. Try, just once, imagining those people who want to leave but can't like you might imagine an alcoholic who wants to stop drinking but can't. Or a teen who wants to stop binge eating and purging but can't. Addictions come in all shapes and sizes, and this attention/information addiction is new enough to where many don't have a defense mechanism for it. Likely most of us will develop strategies to maintain healthy habits and, indeed, some of us have. Some never will. It's not ridicule that people with addiction need. It's help.

talldayo 2y ago
America can't help itself. We can't outlaw cigarettes with a direct deterministic study linking it to cancer, we couldn't unhook ourselves from cable news even when the internet threatened to make it obsolete. It's the same people exploiting the same vulnerable idiots from 20 years ago, with a new coat of paint and a few fresh staff members. I can't help these people besides socially pressuring them in a reciprocal manner to how social media pressures them. I don't just scorn their usage of Twitter, I outright do not acknowledge their existence insofar as it pertains to members-only media platforms. If the image of their digital soul being owned by an online corporation does not motivate them to find healthier means of self-expression, they are a slave to regressive machinations I cannot change.