have you quit twitter yet?

like the Healthcliff P.H. comments one

this place is evil and destroyed my mind even during that phase when they were making half-hearted attempts to moderate explicitly violent fascist content (when it wasn't coming from bluechecks) - thank god I've been banned too often to bother trying to participate because it seems so much worse in that regard these days (as if in anticipation for what's coming). if checking it for 2 mins can still fuck my day up I hate to think what hours most days for years did to my brain

it definitely did something bad because if I have a phone or computer to hand I'll still start mindlessly typing the url and have to stop myself through conscious effort if I realise in time what I'm doing

dow -- why have you quit if you had no problems?

― xyzzzz

But I've got 30 days to reactivate, and could later start over with new screen name.

if I have a phone or computer to hand I'll still start mindlessly typing the url

Over a month ago I installed a website blocking app on my phone to help keep me away from some of my worst time sinks (never ilx tho, lol) and I still unconsciously try to go to twitter a couple times a day.

yeah I need that ha

I’ve not quit Twitter, I’m just there

Every few months I get my husband to lock me out of my Twitter account for a little break, which is great in some ways, but Twitter is where I get my actual news from, so I always feel very cut off from the world when I do this.

It's the comedy I will really miss if it all goes away. People like Vinny Thomas or Andrew Nadeau.

i'll miss art / painting tweets. i'll legit miss random restaurant, i've spent hours browsing that (h/t lag00n). i just need to find more quiet content type things on the internet where i can kill time in a non-anxiety-inducing way.

someone on a library listserv was talking about something called mastodon. anyone here familiar with it?

Is that the same thing as CounterSocial?

Mastodon is open source, hence its appeal

quiet content type things on the internet where i can kill time in a non-anxiety-inducing way.

Some People have been talking ig’nant smack about pinterest over on the elon musk thread but i can attest that pinterest is dope for this purpose.

Will more people read Trump's statements if they are on tWITTEr? I mean people who want to read them no where to find then now right?

Beyond Trump, we're about to enter a realm of "Can you believe what Milo / Gavin MacInnes / Pillow Guy said today??"

no one will ever wonder about mypillow guy unless he gets a lot more entertaining

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.