I'm on mastodon, but the problem is none of the people I want to follow are (mostly sports press). for now I am relying on bots who just repost their stuff from twitter, and sometimes they go down for long periods of time. at this rate I'm not sure mastodon will ever take off for what I used twitter for.

And threads is equally shitty, or worse than twitter. I begrudgingly signed up for an instagram account to try it, followed a few people, then my feed was crammed full of instagram catfish and sad ass middle aged dudes asking for dates. I get that they're trying to hook you with algorithms, but in the process they've made the service literally unusable.

Bluesky gets forgotten

Good news! I already did, the day the moron Musk took over.

I've never used Twitter a lot and I've mostly stopped using it, but Mastodon is just not a viable alternative for most people. I used Twitter to keep up with things. I made a Mastodon account like two years ago, but almost none of the people or organisations I care about are on there. And most of the ones that are on it aren't posting. So I'm basically never using it. The same is true for Bluesky. Threads may be better but I'd rather avoid anything from Facebook.

I always refer to it as X, to remember people that the twitter they knew is long dead

I've been plotting to exclusively talk of x as if it was some brand new microblogging site where you pay for the entire thing and it's userbase and administration is kinda unhinged.

How would that make any sense in that context?

But they can't ban bots from spamming shit

Greatest recipe ever to close my account.

My account was banned for some reason, no idea really. Wrote to support to unban me so I could delete it, they did and I delete the account.

Same...

good luck with that

Yeah. No such thing as moderation on Facebook anymore. I've reported porn, abuse and a lot of other things. Never gets removed..

And it basically has emboldened the worst people in society because they know nothing will get done