colin

@vogon

the evil "Website Boy"

he/him
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member of @staff, lapsed linguist and drummer, electronics hobbyist

zip's bf

no supervisor but ludd means the threads any good

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bluesky

if bluesky has a million haters I am one of them, if bluesky has one hater that's me, if bluesky has no haters then I am no more on the earth (more details: https://cohost.org/vogon/post/1845751-bonus-pure-speculati)

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seattle, WA

colin @vogon8/9/2023, 4:26 PM

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Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy8/9/2023, 2:47 PM

it is amazing how many people I have seen independently describe quitting Twitter in terms of addiction. oh you're trying to cut down to moderate use with safety precautions, I respect that but for me it's gotta be cold turkey, I've relapsed too many times already.

obviously it's not directly comparable to a substance, but to a gambling or shopping addiction? easier on the wallet but at least when you sit at a slot machine for 14 hours you don't spend it continually absorbing hate speech

#twitter #social media addiction

Mr. Hands @mrhands8/9/2023, 3:37 PM

We're legal drug dealers because the drug we push is called 'dopamine'

- A game designer I used to work with at a free-to-play gaming company

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Amagire @amagire8/9/2023, 4:13 PM

I finally deleted the app off my phone¹ and I really feel like I deserve a certificate or a chip or a ribbon or maybe a personal pan pizza. mods,

1. because they made the icon stupid and I kept mistaking it for Xfinity. but still

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy8/9/2023, 4:51 PM

📜🪙🎗🍕

I deleted it off mine too but I can't delete the web browser. and when I tried using a site blocker it got weird and thought any site with an embedded Twitter link should also be blocked, and that's, like, all the sites

philosophy major (derogatory (reclamative))@nullpat8/9/2023, 5:46 PM

I have a vague memory of someone trying to cut down posting on a forum by editing their HOSTS file

chaos gf @zip8/9/2023, 4:30 PM

Putting a mastodon client in the same exact spot on my phone screen helped me cut down 90% but reading that the right wing was circulating CSAM on there got me to add a dns rule permablocking the site and that's been very effective. Amazing how much other people posting tweets was getting me on the site and distracted

nora @nora8/9/2023, 5:21 PM

i think that in a lot of ways bluesky is sort of the vape pen to twitter's cigarettes

Cliff 🦖 Pervocracy @pervocracy8/9/2023, 5:23 PM

Cohost is a nicotine patch; it doesn't hit quite the same spot but my lungs really needed a rest

nora @nora8/9/2023, 5:24 PM

cohost for me is finding a new replacement habit

philosophy major (derogatory (reclamative))@nullpat8/9/2023, 6:10 PM

I feel like cohost is like a volcano vaporizer. like someone handing you a contraption assembled from power tools and kitchen accessories and a trash bag and saying "have fun!"

nora @nora8/9/2023, 7:04 PM

cohost is a volcano vaporizer that a friend set up and you don't totally know how to use yourself yet. twitter is getting drunk in a bar

hanky code enforcement @bootjack8/9/2023, 7:17 PM

i've been going back to furaffinity instead of twitter (mostly in a lurking capacity) and i have to say an endless feed of artwork is vastly preferable to an endless feed of hate speech and hot takes. at least on FA i can see a beautifully rendered painting of a fox getting his dick scrubbed in a car wash and be surprised at the unexpected things a person can be horny for, instead of gazing into the bottom of the barrel of humanity's worst filth on twitter and praying for the nukes to come

Pastacat @MinimallyCrazy8/9/2023, 10:05 PM

Unfortunately, I still have to use Twitter for professional reasons, but like a bartender trying to stay dry, I have a few dodges. One of the redlines for me is TweetDeck; if that stops working, I'm done (and when it broke for a little while, I didn't touch Twitter at all).

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Shockola!@shockola8/9/2023, 4:45 PM

Ironically something Twitter did recently - requiring you to be logged in to see comments - has made it even easier for me to avoid the site altogether. I know now that I won't be able to hate-read chud tweets unless I dig up my old login information, but after quitting last year the neural paths have attenuated to the point where I genuinely don't care anymore. It feels great!

Wadio-Acktive @Wadio-acktive8/9/2023, 10:33 PM

I started Twitter to quit Tumblr. It's a worse site for you but I had better control. By the time Twitter stopped providing enough of value, I was mostly just ready to stop.

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