elprupneerg

Deleted my account the moment he bought it, I knew where it was going and wasn't interested in the slightest.

A lot of people are stubborn, and can't see an inch in front of their noses. They don't see themselves as collaborators, but they are.

It's really wild to me some of the creators I follow that have not just moved on from it to something else, people who are very successful and do not at all rely on it for continued success and could be bringing their followers to another platform. I assumed way more folks would've left much faster.

any time someone mentions to me they saw something on twitter i automatically give them the side-eye. like how on earth are people putting up with All That just for the objectively worst social media experience known to man

I think on some level, people are more creatures of habit than they'd like to admit. When a space becomes terrible, instead of going somewhere else, a lot of people will change to fit the space instead.

i ended up leaving when i realized that it wasnt going to crumble immediately, im just surprised there are so many people who still post there even when the stink is very much on it at this point

It's so fucking disappointing to see people you used to respect still using that site

when Splatoon lets me post to cohost instead I can ditch it... the only people I only follow there have rss feeds of their main work anyway.

yeah, going from "not posting new stuff to twitter" to "leaving twitter and removing the app from my phone.

Doesn't matter.

If people I like don't care about me, why should i keep following them anyway. it shouldn't keep me there.

I don't really interact with twitter, other than blocking, but I do go there to grab old photos, art and memes from my own 15+-year-old account and it's wild to see people and institutions I used to follow still posting normally, while their replies fill up with P□U□S□S□Y□I□N□B□I□O and bluechecks who aggressively misunderstand jokes and communicate only in slurmojis.

like, you all can SEE them, right? here, try my sunglasses.

Anyway I'm seriously thinking about how to put together a public pressure campaign to get schools, government offices, other such "neutral" institutions off Twitter.

I am this close to registering the domain y-after.social to host a microsite like "𝕐: What Comes After 𝕏?"

i'm genuinely concerned with the number of furries i still see faffing about on twitter, especially those of a kink persuasion you know will get maliciously misinterpreted by nazis the moment they're found, and it's only a matter of time. i genuinely do not understand the inertia, do they not see the thousands of shark fins in the water when they go to that particular beach or do they just choose to ignore it because the sharks haven't noticed them yet?

Your mention of a potential campaign to get major public and other "neutral" institutions off Twitter is thought-provoking. The White House is on Threads now - would you consider moving from Twitter to Threads to be harm reduction at all?

So many of these institutions have such sclerotic internal IT departments (and accounting processes) that it was utterly gamechanging to be able to use something externally hosted and maintained, at zero monetary cost, to publish news. Even separate from the reach that Twitter had, and the ecology of apps, plugins, searchability, hashtags, etc., the fundamental logistical fact that it was easy to spin up a Twitter account without having to pay anyone or give a thought to hosting and maintenance made it so attractive to public relations folks everywhere, especially in legacy institutions. AND that is so inextricably intertwined with how unsustainable it is. :(

yeah like, you could kind of see the framework for Posting Through It forming even before the deal was formalized -- like, this idea that the site would just automatically fail on its own regardless of the actions taken by its users (although the site is wholly comprised of its users) and that therefore everyone could happily hang around and have fun watching it burn down. consequently now everyone hates it there but the idea of leaving has sort of been taken off the table altogether

like, every time Musk did some terrible headass thing for a while he would mockingly pull out the analytics to demonstrate that he was actually increasing site traffic this way, and it didn't ever really give people cause to think that they might have to interrogate their own accustomed reactions to the endless ignominy he represented.