i did in fact make a bluesky account just in case i end up needing it, but the more i think about it the more i'm not sure i actually want another twitter. (i'm sure i'm preaching to the choir here.) i'm active on twitter because it's the site where people are. i can just make my little posts and be assured that people will see them, and i can follow a bunch of friends and artists who i otherwise wouldn't be able to keep up with, so i stick around
but it's such a truly awful place when you get down to it. and not even because of all the right wingers. people are just so fucking nasty over there all the time over the most trivial things. the for you algorithm massively prioritizes QRT dunks and random discourse because twitter knows that making you angry is the easiest way to drive engagement. i am exposed to so many bad takes from teenagers. people from the ages of like 16-22 are just constantly going in circles repeating the same arguments over video games and children's cartoons and whatnot and tearing each other apart over them. everything revolves around Takes, but the character limit prevents nuance. and even if you write out a thread to add context and nuance to an opinion people will still just QRT individual tweets to take them out of context
it's all so draining. i don't want to just move that experience over to another site with a smaller userbase
anyway, even if no social media platform or community is perfect, i'm thankful cohost exists as a meaningfully different alternative
