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Likes big things, paints small things, no relation. FFXIV and Tokusatsu obsessed. (Ultros: Rei Byrde, Couerl: Tatoba Tatoba)

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kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

Like, twitter has become basically nonviable for me as well, and that's actually deeply depressing if I stop to think about it

Because it has truly broken a lot of valuable social connections and channels of absolutely vital information. A lot of which will never come over to spaces like Cohost or Mastodon for a variety of reasons, some of which are extremely valid.

There's a lot of virulent anti-twitter sentiment on here in terms of, not the company, but the platform itself, and, I get it, there's a lot to hate about twitter top to bottom, but if you didn't find life-changing/horizon-broadening shit on there in its heydey you weren't looking, and I don't think I can say that about Cohost or the fediverse in the same way.

Anyway, it just sucks, you know? And I'm not out here to judge people for when they do or don't pull the plug.

kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

if a fascist burned a city down and people were blaming the folks there for not moving to a suburb fast enough

effika
@effika

Twitter Breaking Breaks My Heart

I truly didn't want it to go this way. It was the only things I kept up with no matter what else was going on it my life because of the connections I'd made there.

squidcrusher
@squidcrusher

I miss a lot of the people I met on Twitter tbh. (many of which I know still regularly use the site) they were people who I wasn't close enough that I would add them on discord and talk with them regularly or anything like that. But I kinda just miss seeing how they were doing, what new game/show/fandom they were into. People who I kinda just knew for years I suddenly have to no reasonable way to keep up with them unless I kept using Twitter myself.

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spinning-valiant
@spinning-valiant

I will say for me personally I have never encountered as many Blind folks as just casually browsing fedi on any other platform, which is very cool

unrelated, I do think folks talking about this sometimes lose the idea of social media being composed of its users. if you build a great platform and none of your friends use it, how useful is it? people used to say this all the time about google plus, have we just… forgotten? and of course if it’s actually viewable without being logged in it has some value, but it’s still not… social. or if you have a platform that itself is ‘ethical’ (no ads or tracking) but the user base sucks, how useful is that either?

and like nothing but respect for people who are willing to sever social connections for their ethics (i will for plenty of things too) - but some of us want to talk to people who are on facebook or instagram or whatever…

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kukkurovaca
@kukkurovaca

Yeah, I haven't used facebook or instagram in many years and for very good reason, and I pay a price for that in terms what information and what people I can/cannot reach. I'm able to pay that price, but I don't pretend it's not there.

A lot of "better off without twitter" takes deny what we're losing and that sucks because these costs are very real.

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spinning-valiant
@spinning-valiant

a somewhat wholesome anecdote, one my family friends fully stopped using Facebook/WhatsApp and my mum - despite an initial “how are we going to talk??” (normal texting/phone not being a great option due to frequent international travel by both parties) - worked out that they now just … email each other. It’s very sweet.

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RoxannaRachnid
@RoxannaRachnid

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the take you're making here, but I do feel the need to point out making a comparison like "if you didn't find life-changing/horizon-broadening shit on there in its heydey you weren't looking, and I don't think I can say that about Cohost" while Cohost just over a year old, whereas Twitter had several years under its belt before it even became popular let alone reach a ubiquitous "heydey" ignores the historical context of how these platforms and communities grow and change over time and isn't super fair to say X isn't reading at the same grade-level as Y. Especially when Cohost isn't trying to be a new Twitter, it's just absorbing a share of the diaspora.

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