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.