I’ve been on Twitter for fourteen years now. Or I was, until last Halloween. My first experience of the site, the one that hooked me, was watching the Portraitgate story unfold in real time as a group of people on Twitter unpacked the story as RTE tried to memoryhole it.
The last straw was the Musk takeover.
Well, almost the last straw.
I moved to Mastodon, and I’ve pretty much stayed there since. More than once I’ve set my Twitter account for deletion, but I always changed my mind before the 30 day closing period ended. Outside of promotions for the Freelance Forum though, I’ve been absent from the birdsite.
Every few weeks, I see another report of how the site has worsened. And I think about deleting the accounts again , because why stay? And the answer was always, to promote the Forum, because nowhere else has that reach.
But Twitter doesn’t have that reach either. I might have more nominal followers there than anywhere else, but few or none are active. So all I’m doing is adding one more user statistic to a site that’s little more than mainstreaming Nazi talking points.
So no more of that.
Over and out.
