We even have real alternatives. Mastodon and bluesky are both right there, just go make an account and post a link for folks.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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I keep thinking Bluesky might be reaching a tipping point where enough of the influential users at least have an account there and on Twitter - but somehow it just won't come
Have we tried foreplay?
Maybe that's why it's blue
I’m doing my part!
I love how my general disinterest and lack of participation is a virtue from time to time. Just like when I refused to watch that sport event in the middle east.
I feel you. Like 10 years ago I was trying to figure out the best way to let some friends know when pirated media hit the share i gave them access to. Some had discord, some didn’t, some had slack, some didn’t. Everyone could view tweets back then, even without an account, and the application I was using had twitter webhooks built in.
I made an account and used it solely for webhooks tweeting out what movies and shows hit the server, and what format/resolution they were. Everything was fine for a few months, then I upgraded servers and didn’t bother transferring over my media collection bc I was broke back then and needed to reuse the drives, and didn’t have enough extra space to back the media content up to anywhere. I figured that since I had something like 7Gbps symmetrical (technically shared with an apartment building but I had my own queue) I’d just redownload my terabytes of shit ezpz.
Welp, it was ezpz, all except getting banned by twitter because I was posting at some insane rate, as every download of individual episodes of random tv shows from the 90s completed.
I never much got the appeal of twitter. But I had a personal account and one for my business. Hardly used either, most recently to share images from my switch. I deleted both accounts when musky bought it.
Thanks for reminding me about my Switch account. I had deactivated my primary account years ago but forgot about that one. It felt good to be able to deactivate another account! I noticed they didn't have the usual feedback options asking why you are leaving. Probably tired of all the feedback being some form of "Fuck Musk".
If anyone's interested in helping break twatter's stranglehold on brief discussion content encourage your organization (school, company, nonprofit, lab or other org) to host their own Mastodon instance in addition to email. This is how we get people on federated platforms and off of Musk's nazi-friendly platform, by making it easy to use and ubiquitous.
Also, consider making an effort to positively interact with organisations that have done/are attempting to do the migration, assuming you care about them being here.
Chances are they will count the number of interactions they receive in order to assess whether or not it's worth staying around. Pressing the like/upvote/favourite button costs very little, and gives a strong signal that they should stick around. Commenting something positive and relevant or boosting their content is also great, but it takes a bit more commitment.
people are addicted to their fake "likes" from their fake "friends" validating the looks-great-on-paper snippets of their fake "lives"
how many people would have legit mental breakdowns if twitter disappeared tomorrow...
I deactivated my accounts just the other day. I haven’t been active for years so it was an easy decision. I could see why if you have a ton of followers it would be harder to do.
No fucking shit, Idiots…
I’m replacing my phone soon, and I’ve anyway decided that when I get a new phone, I’m not installing that cursed app on it. That’s how I’m finally going to cut myself off from it and be done.
Just pretend you got a new phone today and uninstall it, curse removed!