Content is title. What made you determined to leave Twitter, and what alternative are you using?
When Twitter cut off third party apps I switched to the Fediverse. Got a weird sense of deja vu a few months later.
The day I opened the app and it said I had to pay to continue using 2FA I immediately closed and deleted it.
When they upped the characters it changed the character. You can’t have substantive discussion in 140, but in 280 you can be tedious trying.
Twitter was sort of like a code-golf game when it was 140. Annoying, but it was their gimmick… it also made sense when theoretically people posted by SMS. 280 was freer but then it becomes more like any other social media… and people would just post as threads anyway, which was pretty much like a reddit or facebook post with the most confusing interface ever, and the ability to reply to or ‘like’ sentences individually, which is interesting but not super useful.
Twitter is and always has been cancer
I barely used it to begin with. I closed my account entirely once Musk bought it. Sad chuckle when I see someone just now discover what a racist dirtbag he is.
Hardly used it anyway, and when Elon took over my feed was 99% posts by him and 1% porn accounts. So, not worth keeping it.
I got bored of it in like 2010?
It’s was like 2013 for me. I think it was when they fudged with the time lines so that you weren’t seeing things chronologically but how the algorithm wanted you to see it.
I had a very decent account at the time too. Couple thousand followers (before the bot accounts started getting super bad) and like 30k tweets.
I still have an account, but I literally only use to to tweet stories to one podcast.
Too much Nazi shit and other forms of bigotry really. I just stopped posting my artwork there entirely and now post on bluesky and mastodon. Sometimes I use Facebook network shit to assure family that I am alive.
I never did. I still don’t understand the appeal of shouting into the abyss and hoping someone hears the echo.
The amount of time I spent on Twitter had been gradually declining for years, with all the ads and suggested shit I didn’t want to see, and I don’t like what Musk is planning for the platform. Then I joined Mastodon and I found it was like the early days of Twitter, without half as much toxicity.
So it was quite easy leaving Twitter in the end.
I barely used it and just deleted my account the second Elon was involved.
That’d be me as well. The last Twitter post I made was what, 2014? So it was an easy delete.
Once it became clear they Elron was going to smash the place into a cesspool of douchery, the decision was simple.
how tf did my countries rail operator destroy twitter for you
Twitter for me was always just a place to shout random ramblings to void. It didn’t help that I barely followed at all what other users were saying. Always felt like I should, in fact, not just speak my mind, because in the recent years the site was really terrible at banning dipshits and the Musk takeover was a clear signal that things will never be getting better in that regard.
When Musk took over, the fact that the site started experiencing creaking at the seams when devs were laid off was a huuuuuuge red flag. My biggest IRL friend decided to leave Twitter after the Musk takeover. With nothing else to genuinely follow, I decided to GDPR-dump my past stuff and leave the site too.
I like Mastodon. It’s like Twitter and Identica back in early 2010s when you could actually see random strangers posting random shit. Can see fellow shouters-in-the-void. And they’re usually not dipshits.
Nothing, I will never leave twitter. I would have to sign up to do that and since its X now, I don’t think I even could sign up for twitter.
Your first sentence really scared me lmao
I had an account since 2009 and mainly used it to post really ridiculous phrases that I found funny, like ‘turnip thieves’ or ‘nursing burqa’. I tried posting various other things like programming related stuff, or pics and observations from my travels, and got absolutely zero engagement. But then in 2020 I was suddenly homeless in downtown portland after a breakup RIGHT when the Floyd protests started (I was driving right by the Federal center and the Elk statue like “huh, why are there are these cop cars and what are these people doing standing in the street?” and I needed up-to-date info about wtf was going on. Twitter was the best place to find that. Reddit was hours behind, fuck facebook, and local news is like a day behind, but local reporters were posting to-the-minute updates on twitter.
Then I started using it to follow some communities I’m into, like niche games and certain autoimmune diseases, and I liked the feel of personality people had. I felt like I got to know the personality of people who posted way more than on reddit, without the bullshit of facebook or whatever. I got sick of the horror of political slimebags by growing a block list of 8,000 accounts. But then: Elron. When Elron came it became clear that he was a massive douchebag and was going to destroy the site. I didn’t wait around to watch: I downloaded my archive and just deleted my account.
