this is around one full year of my decision to stop tweeting on twitter. I check the website more than I should, because I'm dreadfully paranoid about direct messages, and literal muscle memory - like ctrl-t-tw is something I realised I was doing idly, in the same way I go to reddit with ctrl-t-r.
I haven't gotten into the same habit with mastodon or cohost - they're now part of a folder of links I middle-click to check regularly.
but it has been now a full year and let me be as clear as I can: I don't fucking miss it. I feel a bit of anxiety that there are some people who wanted to talk to me and didn't, but like, in a full year, I got @'ed and DM'd once. It also drove home to me how many people I had muted on twitter, how much I had to do defensively to avoid sharing information on twitter in its natural use.
I don't miss it. I haven't seen a meaningful dip in my People Engaging with my shit.
Twitter doesn't have to be your audience. Twitter is over.
(Or it was never doing a good job in the first place)