have you quit twitter yet?

I quit twitter the day that musk signed the purchase agreement. It'll be a cold day in hell when I participate in anything that has that tumor's name on it.

mastodon has several excellent qualities but the best of all that is that tweets are now toots

deactivated mine friday after a couple months of logged-out non-use

i have all my tweets and retweets automatically deleted weekly and do not care about whatever 'information' I've put on twitter per se. I was concerned this morning when I got an email saying they were not taking any action against an account I reported for an explicitly antisemitic tweet; but when I actually went to twitter I had a notification that said the opposite, and that account was restricted.

Layoffs are supposed to hit Twitter tomorrow or Tuesday, so I think we'll start to see what the implications of this change of ownership are after that. I'm largely a hate-user of twitter anyway so unless many many many people leave I doubt I will. I don't know why it's harder to quit than FB (which I didn't quit, I just stopped using it actively and only go to it maybe once every three days and never spend more than a minute there).

I honestly find out about news faster from twitter than any other source, so I guess that's why I am reluctant to quit it. If media outlets abandoned it, it would be less interesting to me.

I don't know why it's harder to quit than FB

I would guess because Twitter can be configured to actually provide real-time information, news and entertainment, whereas FB mostly feels like just people posting vacation travelogues and neighborhood events.

I quit a month ago, spur of the moment, couldn't stand it any longer. Now it looks like I quit because of this takeover. I want to make it explicit that I quit because of what it is, not who owns it. But if this accelerates the leaving and the seeking of default social media that doesn't alienate the many and lionise the few while turning engagement into zero-sum polar binaries, then good

xp: guess once twitter burns down most ppl will go on tik tok and destroy the platform for the younger crowd that are on there.

guess once twitter burns down most ppl will go on tik tok and destroy the platform for the younger crowd that are on there.

Not a chance. Most people who are comfortable typing out their thoughts are gonna have zero interest in filming themselves talking.

Every time I see a Tiktov vdeo it just makes me hate the human face more

I would guess because Twitter can be configured to actually provide real-time information, news and entertainment

There are a couple of single-serving twitter feeds I follow for this reason, but it's easy enough to put them in News Explorer (which can read RSS, twitter, YouTube, and Reddit feeds without actually having to be on those sites)

I deleted my twitter!! f u elon

i thought i would just bumble along like usual but the past few days i haven't spent more than a few minutes on the site without the image of this asshole invading my psyche, so i deactivated, we'll see if i can make it through a month.

it's really the only news source i had so idk what to do about that, fb is a nightmare for news obviously. i'll be a corpse before i choose to watch cable news. maybe i don't actually need news, what an incredible idea.

i wish there was a youtube channel with the teletext local forecasts that used to run on the weather channel in the 90s, maybe set to an endless screensaver of landscape photos, or better yet, photos from "random restaurant", i would watch that for hours on the weekends.

no news would probably be a life boon, but fwiw I tend to look at the Guardian and Al Jazeera for "what's going on today" purposes because neither has a paywall (plus some Canada-specific places) and I tend to only be interested in one or two articles max so it's not a big time suck

huh i will take this under consideration ty

gonna be fun when random trolls pay $8 to pretend to be public figures and all the people who are supposed to verify them have been fired

i thought i would just bumble along like usual but the past few days i haven't spent more than a few minutes on the site without the image of this asshole invading my psyche

i wish there was a youtube channel with the teletext local forecasts that used to run on the weather channel in the 90s

Searching "weather channel teletext" brings up hours of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyImqK1Z0o

oh yeah straight into my veins

maybe quitting twitter will rid my vocabulary of annoying twitterish phrases like "straight into my veins"

So did Stephen King tweet how 'bout $8 a month and the dude basically said f'it...that will work?

Stephen King's final offer was $0 a month

the $8/month was Musk lowballing himself

I have to admit to having a morbid curiosity about who some of y'all follow that cause such grief and rage upon opening twitter. I like the fact that it gives me control of exactly this.

I follow only music/podcasting/history people, block and mute anyone annoying and mute things I don't want to hear about like "elon" and it's actually quite a pleasant place to hang out now.

yea Twitter can be a fun experience if you follow the right accounts. for me it's mostly sports/music/comedians/random people I think are cool. I think the key is to not follow too many politics people

Yeah, it takes constant weeding and careful pruning, but part of why I'm so disappointed with this acquisition is that I'd finally felt like I'd cultivated a feed that wasn't rage inducing.

not good!

Here's what we know:
1. Trump is dead (died badly)
2. @elonmusk has suppressed this news (or has he?)
3. Donald Trump Junior is now just plain Donald Trump

please like and share.

— Tim Heidecker: Sole Host of On Cinema (@timheidecker) November 1, 2022

yea Twitter can be a fun experience if you follow the right accounts. for me it's mostly sports/music/comedians/random people I think are cool. I think the key is to not follow too many politics people

― frogbs, Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:11 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Probably true. I think Twitter in the Trump era would've felt different no matter what, but it didn't help that I coped with Trump's 2016 win by following a bunch of political reporters and commenters in the months after the election.

Another tip for twitter enjoyment is disabling retweets from users you follow (on a user by user basis). I guess it would be cool if you could do a mass disabling, but I don't believe it's an option.

First time I had to do that was for Ava DuVernay because she would retweet EVERY TIME someone said one kind word about a movie or tv show she made. Cleared up so much space in my timeline.

Now I do it a few times a week.

The first person I ever muted was a coworker whose feed was 95% retweets of the "spreading awareness"/"signal boosting" variety. Prob wouldn't have minded seeing her own tweets but could not deal with all of that.

I know you're off twitter now, but you can just disable retweets instead of wholly muting the account.

Yeah, I did not know that! Good tip.

just got kicked off

don't know why, they didn't specify

anyway, good

Another tip for twitter enjoyment is disabling retweets from users you follow (on a user by user basis). I guess it would be cool if you could do a mass disabling, but I don't believe it's an option.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, November 2, 2022 12:24 AM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

you can mute the string "RT @" or you can run this https://turn-off-retweets.jvns.ca/

Irish politicians will be delighted if everyone quits Twitter. They absolutely hate it. It gives people the ability to counter their lies or mistakes without having to be invited on the TV or radio to debate them in person. If it wasn't for Twitter, we wouldn't have known that our minister for agriculture and a whole load of other grandees attended a big dinner dance at a golf club together at the height of the COVID restrictions, for example. Broadcast media tends to pick up the stories afterwards. I don't want to lose that immediacy or that fact-checking ability.

surprised to hear so many people position twitter as the only option for news aside from broadcast media. yall realize there are a couple big ones that you are leaving out?

Twitter isn't itself a news source, but it's a very good distributor of news. News can travel quickly through retweets, and users encounter it passively (often with useful context, or at least salience, already attached to it). Without Twitter, I spend more time browsing the NYT homepage and clicking on the odd headline that interests me, but it's not the same, for better or worse.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It does get old, when everyone retweets the same thing but yeah exactly

Between having no cable and shitty websites and whatnot, I actually do find a lot of news relatively hard to access. We do subscribe to the Washington Post, and even that one is often broken in Chrome and frequently won't let me stay signed in and read stories (for some reason). So yeah, real-time news, especially breaking news, often gets to me faster via Twitter than it does via the actual news sources, and who I follow (and/or trust) helps control what news or kind of news reaches me first. Even a relatively slick operation like NPR often lags on important (to me) news by several hours, if not days.

do we have an alternate social media thread? I'm curious if anyone on ilx has experience with Mastodon

Twitter is a really good place for NBA news and highlights

also learning about stuff from multiple viewpoints in the same "timeline" i.e. Ferguson was really useful to get the "same" news from different angles

Mastodon suuuuucks. It's not centralized, so it's really hard to find other people; everyone basically has their own little Mastodon fiefdom. I've signed up for counter.social, but that one seems really annoying too. I doubt I'll ever use it.

for what it's worth, at least a couple of the people I followed on Twitter that have stopped have continued to post the same stuff on Instagram.

hard to imagine searching Insta for breaking news lol

Twitter really is the best for finding out about something in real time imo

xp
yeah every time I look into Mastodon I just get confused by the baroque descriptions of how it works and give up, oh well

what if everyone on twitter switched to ilx