Angrier than I expected. I don't care what happens to twitter now, and like everybody else I guess, I can't stop watching as it gets torn apart. The people there — you — have gotten me through the last few years of almost total isolation. I'm not sure what I would have done without that, but it wouldn't have been good.

I don't care about details of technical features, or what happens to how the site operates; what meant something to me was already swiftly destroyed, any sense of permanence where I could leave behind a trail of things, and importantly, the fleeting interactions around them. Ongoing little time capsules. A "we were here", "we existed together for this moment".

I can gradually put my stuff on a blog or whatever, but I can't capture that. I can only keep the things I made myself, and that isn't enough.


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Yep, alll of this. Twitter, for all its faults, was a community. And now it’s doomed, because of some blowhard with too much money and ego. I hate it.

At least we can find new community. But it’s not the same.

i'm not sure why cohost won't let me reply to things but yes i ALWAYS look for alt text and i always add alt text to things now. being unsure what's going to happen to that paper trail of little interactions and in-jokes is really upsetting

The people there — you — have gotten me through the last few years of almost total isolation. I'm not sure what I would have done without that, but it wouldn't have been good.

This so much. Thank you so much for your posts and stuff on there, they often brought joy and a smile. Just really sad to see things go the way they have.

I feel this way too. I've been able to cultivate the people I follow on Twitter to the point where it's actually a nice place to be until I decide on my own to venture into the dark recesses. My biggest fear about moving away from it, and the reason I haven't made a concrete decision to do it, is that I won't be able to keep in touch with the people I enjoy interacting with on Twitter. That's probably why I've been trying to follow all the people I see posting about their Mastodon/Cohost, and why I've been posting mine, before Twitter starts to actually not exist. I hope that at least by then I'll have enough other places to keep in touch that I won't miss people.

I'm still quarantining/isolating as much as I can, so the people I talk with on Twitter are still a large part of my social interaction. Without that, I'm sure I would feel really lonely.

Kate, you have been a light in the darkness for the past couple of years, a lifeline of joy in these hard times. I think of you every time I write alt text for an image, every time I see a moomin, or write a regex, or just hear the name Kate. You made Twitter a much better place with your presence. I am angry with you about what has been done to Twitter, angry and upset and scared, so scared of losing community and friends. But I take solace in the fact that the platform is not the people it is merely the place, and the knowledge that you will continue to bring joy no matter where you go 💕