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I've kept a tweetdeck tab open for the better part of 8+ years and today I closed it and don't expect to reopen it. All the notifs tabs are broken. Twitter as a whole just seems broken. I knew this was coming so, you know, I'm not terribly surprised, but I think this is it, this is The Moment I am finally, for real, done with twitter.

For a moment I was tempted to write a retrospective on the site but we all know. We have all Been There. I will miss the good it offered but I won't be sad to see the back of its bad, which was the majority of what it was to me for the last few years. Like a lot of people I am definitely wondering where my jobs come from now, and I guess We'll See how the exodus from the site works out. I really hope the answer isn't bluesky, that site seems primed to go down the exact same fascist route twitter did (and no surprise given who runs it)

In the meantime I'll keep posting unnecessarily long rambles on here, and I'm kind of low key reviving my mastodon account at https://mastodon.social/@MOOMANiBE. Mostly for lurking, I prefer to save the good posts for cohost.

....I expect we're going to see a time of messy change ahead of us. A lot of the big web services that monopolized the internet during the time of "web 2.0" have begun to turn, believing that in their monopolies there cannot possibly be anywhere else to go, and thus they can make the service as hostile and useless as they desire for the sake of pleasing insatiable VCs. And in this, I sense an opportunity. Maybe. Twitter was useful, but its seeming essentiality - the core sensation of "everyone is on there" - was also what sucked the air out of the room for everywhere else to be. In this period where the worst of the web feels like it's crumbling, on some level I hope we let that kind of site die, so that hopefully, a lot else can spring up in its place.

We'll see.


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in reply to @MOOMANiBE's post:

i too have had a tweetdeck tab pinned open for many many years (i had it back when it was a fucking adobe air app lmao)

it's been running worse and worse over the last year, to the degree that i when i would occasionally look at it it was like a powerpoint translation, taking forever to even load images or interact

it's such a weird feeling that it's basically gone now. like a place you've been for years just getting demolished

Yeah, I was on twitter for way longer than basically any other site. But also.... god. I feel like this was The Longest Time coming. I had already been fading on the site to begin with, it was just bad to be on lately

i just tried to post another submarine meme to a friend via tweetdeck and it took over a minute to happen. wild

i've been on other sites (most notably my own forum) for longer, but twitter was #2 on that front, and far more active. it's where i kept up with a handful of people i know nowhere else, and aren't moving anywhere else, and it's just... well. gone, almost.

Yeah, Twitter and Reddit imploding at the same time is going to be...crushing. This genuinely feels worse than the Myspace collapse, at least we had shelter points set up when that happened.

I think we're in for a lot of new, weird places and a big restructuring of the internet to try to figure out what the hell to do next.

yeah, i've been drifting toward unfollowing down to like 100 people i mostly know and using it mostly for replies for a little while and i'm just opening it less and less (maybe this will be the final nail?)

i know it's not likely short term, we share a lot of sites, but i genuinely hope we don't lose contact if everything keeps falling apart like it has been lately

same, I do think it will come back but this is going to keep happening as long as the platform is unusable for advertisers and their plans to fix that will make it unusable for everyone else.