Content is title. What made you determined to leave Twitter, and what alternative are you using?
Twitter is and always has been cancer
web version is absolutely miserable so i just follow the people of interest through nitter
Never used it! Bwahahaha eat a dick, Twatter
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.
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.
I only use it for getting updates on public transport, but now apparently I made my account when I was under 13 and it’s now completely locked. Despite being over a decade older they won’t accept my ID to reopen and no way will I make another account.
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.
Because X gon’ give it to ya and I do not consent.
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.
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
Putting blue checks at the top ruined Twitter for me. Every trending tweet gets spammed with 😂 emojis, right-wing disinformation, and transphobic hate speech. I got tired of scrolling past them just to start seeing normal commenters. Lemmy and Mastodon are better because the average user isn’t a total fucking idiot with an agenda.
Honestly this is what made me leave in the end.
The average blue check is a fridge temp IQ troglodyte.
I got banned because when Musk announced that Trump was unbanned, I replied to the tweet and linked the Trump account letting him know I looked forward to seeing him die in jail. I refuse to delete the tweet to remove my ban.
Free speech absolutist!
Based
I was a beta tester for twitter.
Didn’t really “get” it then, and it never really clicked with me. I hardly used it, and when musk came in I deleted my account.leave? barely used it.
How did you manege to leave that toxic sewer?
Quite easy, i never jumped in
Any recommendation? Twitter alternatives.
FireFish!
You could try putting a metal trash can over your head and letting the neighborhood kids hit it with a stick.
Just get neighborhood kids you trust! I rounded up a few randos because I couldn’t find my usual pack, and it started out fine, but a few of them decided it would be more fun to ignore the trash can and crack me in the nuts. I said I WANTED TO SIMULATE TWITTER! NOT REDDIT!!!
Mastodon. It’s not invite-only like Bluesky, it doesn’t track you like Threads and it’s federated like Lemmy (in fact, there’s some crossover in some instances).
Kbin straddles both Lemmy and Mastodon 🙂
You are comparing completely different things.
No I’m not. Kbin is part of both networks.
Kbin is fully a microblogging service.
I spent too much time on there before musk acquired it. After that, I put an app timer on to limit it to 15min a day, then down to 10. Now I go weeks at a time without opening it. The experience has changed greatly. It’s a shitty buggy experience where the opinions of the dumbest people on earth are served to me with high priority. Pass.
