Erica

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Erica @erica7/5/2023, 8:38 PM

god going from multiple feeds that have like 8-10 posts each that are separated by accounts /interests/purposes to just one feed that fits like sorta 3 posts-ish at once because i used an extension to make everything as small as possible on my 1440p screen fucking sucks so fucking much

i said it in reply to a friend yesterday but this truly feels like the worst breakup i've ever been through. it's so hard to let go. i spent like 14 years of my life there, man ! it feels like i'm packing my shit but doing it one box every day because it's so grueling to think about leaving in the first place.

i want to be upset at people going to places like Bluesky or whatever but i can't. i get it. if they can manage it, that's fine. if they think that place is better than that's on them to deal with the eventual blowback. i'm just sad that like, the way i took in the world for a third of my life is essentially over because now it's broken apart across multiple websites in a way that isn't good and extremely inconvenient.

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christine @love7/5/2023, 8:42 PM

yeah, like... this is totally unusable. can't do it. that's it

it feels ridiculous to be grieving it like this but it truly is just the end of an era. that part is extremely real! whatever era comes next is gonna be a meaningfully big difference in my life. that's real!

Saturn @MrSaturn7/5/2023, 8:48 PM

twitters desktop version has so goddamn much open space (made even worse by using a script to turn off the trending box and whatnot) and it drives me crazy

@zellyn7/5/2023, 8:55 PM

reminds me of changing schools when i was a teenager. like, yeah i could conceivably keep up with some of my old classmates but realistically i was never gonna see them again

Thew @Thew7/5/2023, 9:00 PM

yeah since the implosion happened over a holiday this is my first Work Day without tweetdeck on a side monitor, and it’s like…. really genuinely fucking depressing! Just sitting here by myself staring at my work laptop like shit it’s lonely in here

ENDY @meow7/5/2023, 9:09 PM

I hate it I hate how everything has been blown apart I’ve actually felt really depressed over this whole situation a lot. I’m gonna lose out on mutuals and connections with people all over the place and it’s gonna suck. I am trying to make it work but rn my energy levels for managing any new media spaces is quite low, but I’ve been trying to just stop being stubborn and give some attention to places more and accept reality.

Like yeah Twitter sucks, but I’ve met a lot of people through it and I met the love of my life on there. Hard to let go a little.

Joy @ahoyitsjoy7/5/2023, 10:16 PM

Struggling to accept how many social media accounts I'm going to have to deal with for at least the near future... I mean, even with the fediverse I'm expecting to end up with at least a few due to defederation and compatibility issues and whatnot.

Like I've accepted we'll never have the One Site like Twitter was probably ever again but speedrunning learning 20 sites in one month to decide if I want to follow people onto them is so exhausting.

Mike Horowitz @mikejwitz7/5/2023, 10:32 PM

Yeah, I feel you on this one

⧎ sango @sango7/6/2023, 1:49 AM

I felt the same way as a Tumblr v1 user... watching it go up in flames was surreal and depressing. I don't have the same attachment to twitter (just never used it in my younger years) — but it's still where my community is, and watching everyone split to bsky/threads is frustrating. I keep talking about cohost but almost no one listens...