Avril Lavigne was right....WHAT the hell ||

Captain of Wave Prism, low level competitive Splatoon 3 team || header by ieafy


i rly rly hate elon musk for doing this like…twitter wasn’t perfect but he completely destroyed it. just make your own shitty AI website 😒 like the twitter we knew is gone now. it’s really sad. like it feels dumb to mourn a social media platform but i kept in touch with/made so many friends and found so much art on twitter and now everyone is either scattered to the winds or staying on a sinking ship. i hate having to find my art mutuals on tumblr or bluesky or mastodon or cohost or instagram instead of all in just one place and i hate that the splatoon community has nowhere to go right now. it feels like seeing the end of a bunch of things i really care about

i know i complained about twitter a lot and it was never very good for artists but i’m really gonna miss it. and as pathetic as it feels to admit it was a big part of my life and the change is hard to deal with. like i do really like cohost as a platform but it sucks to lose twitter it really sucks


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in reply to @robinhood's post:

Feel u so much… I had lots to complain about w twitter but it’s really frustrating and demoralizing to see it get thrown out just because of one stupid asshole. Twitters been my main social sphere for a long time :(

Yeah no i definitely feel this too. Twitter was really shitty and got progressively shittier in terms of how much negative content it force fed u and relying on an increasingly mercurial algorithm just to see posts (like, at this pt, it is a 50% chance i see anyone's post if i dont have them in a list, which is SO dumb). I was pretty heavily into reddit too bc it was the only thing that felt close to the age of forums still, so to see it go downhill also has been really hard. I think its okay to mourn these dumb sites as ppl who socialize a lot on the internet. And having no reliable alternative established yet just makes us feel... unmoored. Like starting all over again. Which sucks ass

I just really wish the collective consciousness would just pick a site that is not tumblr or instagram threads BAHDSHDG

REAL SHIT!!! like the hardest part of this is seeing everyone go to a different site!!! and i feel like if we have the opportunity to start all over we should not ditch the sinking ship (twitter) to hop into the garbage fire (tumblr) or the OTHER AI algorithm microtransaction platform run by another known egomaniacal lunatic (threads). this is why i messaged all my friends about cohost because i really like the way its set up and just like. it's new and empty but it has strong foundations and a lot of potential for growth and if my friends are here then that's mostly good enough for me. i just miss all the ARTISTS AUGHHH

Agreed so hard 😭😭😭 i feel like all the artists are coalescing on bluesky for....some reason... but as long as it's invite only, that's going to severely limit its ability to overtake twitter (and also artists' global reach in general?? Idgi). I mean I'm happy to go wherever everyone decides (to a degree) but playing the waiting game is so dumb.

At least right now cohost with the buds reminds me of old school LJ where its just you punting a little post out to your friends with little interference. But yeah, without the like, "here's where all the art/fic/announcements are posted" central core of fandom internet, its gonna be an incomplete adoption

as soon as i saw that bluesky had no rules against hate speech i noped outta there so hard. and yeah the invite only thing is not a good element either. so its sad to see some of my fav artists go there because it's a complete no from me dawg