have you quit twitter yet?

I'm reading up on how it works. Seems like it'd work well with a number of small- or mid-sized servers, and the amount of traffic you'll get is completely dependent on what users on your server subscribe to. You can have the front page be a variation of the classic firehose ofall the toots (lol) from your server, plus those from all accounts that the users on your server subscribe to.

I think it'd scale super well with a myriad of small to mid sized servers with the most popular users not all being on the same ones. Obviously this is the opposite of what's happening.

It felt like I was picking the geocity I wanted to live in all over again. I’ll never use this thing.

I mean, we could collectively all join one instance, take a vote as to whether we want to keep it going, and then roll on or shut down

what would be the difference between that and ilxor.com

you could follow/retoot (?)/interact with other people not on ilx

i tried to sign up to the tribel offering the other evening.
very buggy and constant performance issues.
its going to take a lot for me to completely quit twitter.
i rarely see anything too unpleasant due to a small echo chamber setup on it.
a few news/journos + record labels + bands + producers + music nerds.
and little else.
makes my twitter experience rather enjoyable.

i would be super down for trying a ilxor mastodon (he says, not knowing anything)

i hate twitter and have started reading it compulsively even though its just people saying 'normalise breadsticks' or posting screenshots of sitcoms i've never heard of with the caption 'yass kween' and would be glad if this guy ruins it just enough so that it breaks my compulsion. I remember being hooked on FB years ago and then it got really boring all of a sudden so hopefully that happens soon and I can go back to only watching fashion shows on youtube.

people always think that whatever website will obsess them forever but like remember when nobody could stop posting on ilx and you would like try to post on a thread and every time would get the skipping messages thing and now the only thing anybody posts about are twitter drama and whether ilx is dead

you go girl

im not even being rude about ilx, it was obviously better than twitter which is just total gibberish

breadsticks should maybe be normalized

remember when nobody could stop posting on ilx and you would like try to post on a thread and every time would get the skipping messages thing

yes I do, rvturn

Deleted all my tweets - going read only from here on out.

Can't really quit Twitter per SE, all 16 of my accounts are banned.

I am going to be the last on there. I'll be reading the last tweet.

lightweight unless you *post* the last tweet

There really isn’t a comparable place to Twitter. Am I supposed to hop on Instagram and write like “the only slasher icon who believably eats ass is Jason Voorhees” underneath a photo of some nice leaves I saw

— Vinnie Mancuso (@VinnieMancuso1) November 4, 2022

^ perfect description of why I never liked Twitter right there!

There are literally infinite ways you can shape your own experience with twitter, and that is ONE of them. But ok.

He could just post a picture of Jason on Instagram and write the same thing for crying out loud. Hell, he could write a whole essay on it over there.

i signed up for post, haven't followed anyone yet, but the "posts" it's serving me make it seem like a parler or truth social for resistance libs lol

like, this was the first thing i saw when i logged in today: https://post.news/article/2J8SVsZ2IBvBJ2sXxIprQXFciTx

fucks sake.

lol get yer "You Don't Know Jack" trading cards here

mastodon is good imo

Getting better fast too.

As soon as people on ilx start posting Mastodon links instead of tweets I’ll have to switch

Tweetshelf is no longer free :(

I think this is related to Twitter charging to access its API, so sites that are built on it need to create revenue stream.

Tiwtter app got cross at my never checking it anymore, started sending me random tweets it thought I might like, so I uninstalled it.

is it weird to have not quit but to have the platform essentially beg/dare you to every day?

Feel like this needs a do-over. I'm pretty sure I voted that I'd never quit, but I left months ago. I was hoping for some End Days of Twitter excitement until a final blowout but it's more just drawn-out and boring.

i still haven't quit. there are a handful of people / pubs i find valuable. and nice art bot accounts and stuff that are too good to let go of for me, too good of a time waste and a distraction. also stuff like my regional office of the national weather service, who also posts on facebook, but good luck getting updates on chron order there. i thought mastodon might do it for me but it was too much work :|

Mastodon feels pretty similar to me. I don't quite understand people's issues with it beyond "I fear change". Having said that, I haven't got anything that feels like a community on there yet, but I put that down to me having run out of steam on most social media platforms - I didn't post much on twitter before I left and I haven't posted much on Mastodon, so there's no real reason for anyone to follow me if they don't already know me.

I keep thinking about joining tumblr for the lols, but I've thought about it for over a decade and never done it.

pubs i find valuable

Eh you can just call up for opening hours, no need to follow on social media.

is it weird to have not quit but to have the platform essentially beg/dare you to every day?

― rob, Tuesday, 4 April 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Hate that dog, but I'm still not quitting.

Same. It's the only place where I feel some sense of community with other people who make a similar type of music. No idea if that also exists on Mastodon or how to find it tbh.

My huge problem with Mastodon is there's no search. I know that's a fundamental decision for them and it's not changing, but search on Twitter is hugely useful in so many ways. That's what makes it very difficult to discover/visit all those communities that you're not part of

my bot host has had the plug pulled by twitter. it's as if 58,000 voices cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

After 8 years and 58440 bots... CBDQ has come to an end. Thank you to @GalaxyKate & to everyone who has made a bot. It's been a pleasure. pic.twitter.com/8C6gXzuRRX

— v buckenham (@v21) April 6, 2023

Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.

The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2023

cool cool cool

Great meeting you today @elonmusk! We had multifaceted conversations on issues ranging from energy to spirituality. https://t.co/r0mzwNbTyN pic.twitter.com/IVwOy5SlMV

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 21, 2023