honestly twitter has been making me more and more exhausted lately between the overly hostile environment and the blue checks and the crypto bots and everything else, and i should definitely use it less, but i don't think i could quit cold turkey. i know i am saying this to the website full of people who make posts about how actually it's super easy to just leave twitter and everyone should do it, but i don't think i could do it
i have too many friends and long-time mutuals who aren't active on any other social media. too much of my reach when trying to promote my work is still through twitter. i would feel like i was cutting myself off from artistic and hobby communities that just haven't migrated elsewhere. i love cohost, but for me this is a smaller, friendlier community that i retreat to as a reprieve from the bigger sites, not a full-blown replacement. i have way too many friends who do not and probably will never use cohost. (and non-english speaking artists just do not seem to be moving over here.) bluesky won't be ready for prime time until they add support for gifs and videos at the very least, and i worry that when it eventually goes public the community will become just as unpleasant as the one on twitter, with the added bonus of not being able to make a private account to hide from randos. i barely have the energy to keep up with the discords i'm already in, so i'm not looking to join new ones to talk to other furry artists or game devs or whatever. i never left tumblr and still enjoy my time there, but half my friends left tumblr in favor of twitter years ago, and obviously the porn ban remains a big obstacle for the furry community over there. i already feel so distant and isolated from so many of my peers and i feel like leaving the one site the vast majority of them use would just amplify that feeling
