Bye, Twitter
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Bye, Twitter
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#3I've also moved from Twitter to Mastodon, for the same reasons, and have a similar experience - the raw follower count is still a fraction as before, but a lot of interesting people I want to connect with are already there.
And the feeling is... very different. There was lots about Twitter that subtly enraged me, like pop-sci Covid takes showing up in my algorithmic feed after I had extremely carefully curated my followers to only include actual scientists who knew what they were talking about. And it's also refreshing not to have all those ads. In general, I feel like you've got a lot of control of your Mastodon experience, if you curate your followers well, it can be quite good. I have rules of immediately "unfollow boosts of" anybody who posts viral "boost this if..." or bullshit polls, and that's cleaning up my feed as well.
I've also been followed by my first crypto account (so I might go to followers-need-approval), and have seen glimmers of the same kind of dumb drama you see on Twitter, but overall feel like I generally have the tools I need to keep all that in check. I was finding that Twitter was bad for my mental health, and took a bunch of breaks from it even when I was having generally positive interactions and finding good info. We'll see how this goes, especially as things scale.
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#4> Unpaid contributions
Certain Twitter accounts actually believe that they are providing free content for the platform. People who have grown their networks and reach immensely there. Twitter is so much better off without people who have this attitude.
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#5Is Elon on Mastodon?
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#6Tim Bray will now pretend to be important somewhere else
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#7What are the bets on when this guy comes back to Twitter?
I give it 1 month.
I don't know, I just think that if you give a public proclamation of "I leaving X!" Then you are giving everyone permanent permission to make fun of you, if you ever come back to that platform.
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#8Free speech is now a euphemism for providing loud voices on private platforms for the far right, while banning progressive voices on the same platform.
Any time a "free speech " platform like Truth Social emerges, we can be sure that its primary purpose is amplifying Nazis and banning liberals. Sad to see Twitter starting to go in the same direction.
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#10What are the bets on when this guy comes back to Twitter? I give it 1 month. I don't know, I just think that if you give a public proclamation of "I leaving X!" Then you are giving everyone permanent permission to make fun of you, if you ever come back to that platform.
He hedged his bet twice. Not to continue including the "amplification of worthy voices," though. I guess that would benefit Elon. He'll still write on twitter if it benefits _him_, though.
I don't get it. These articles in search of a moral pat on the back are always very tiresome.