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I don't regret being on twitter while it was good, but I would regret being on twitter today.

• jacquesm 9mo ago
  I regret giving it legitimacy that effectively enabled Elon to gain a bigger mouthpiece.
  • SideburnsOfDoom 9mo ago
    You don't ever know the specifics of the trajectory such as "selling to Elon", but the general arc under commercial pressures is predictable - that's the thesis of "enshitifcation". I understand that not signing up in the first place is a valid choice. But I also feel that using these services, on the understanding that they don't guarantee to remain good, and so you don't guarantee to remain there at all when they succumb, is also valid. You don't owe them that. Another one will be along in a minute. That's why we went from MySpace to LiveJournal. "legitimacy" is not binary nor eternal, and Elon's mouthpiece is leaking it's remaining legitimacy.
    • jacquesm 9mo ago
      Yes, but it is a massive investment in time to establish a presence and if it is all going to be used by some asshole billionaire in the long term then I'll just opt out.
      • SideburnsOfDoom 9mo ago
        Sure, if you feel that your presence is that valuable and not portable then that's a valid choice. I follow many people on BlueSky that I followed on twitter, and I don't feel that I have a valuable brand, that's not what I do.