i never understood twitter. like the appeal I mean. and they layout is counter intuitive for quotes and nesting. its clearly just made to shout contextless snippets into an ether. great platform for headlines, not for dialogue.

after they unbanned all the overt nazis and account-walled even looking at replies, it killed off any interest i had in looking at content that links to that burst sewer pipe.

but i was abandoning web 2.0 platforms before most people alive today even had their first. friendster, myspace, if you wait until the platform is a ghost town of spam bots and evil grandmas before you cut your losses, you've already lost.

The two times not being into a popular thing really worked out in my favor: never caring about Harry Potter and never having a Twitter account.

I deleted my Twitter account back when first bought it and never looked back. Probably a good thing, because if I hadn't I probably would have told a bunch of Nazis to follow their leader and had the account banned by now.

A retched Nazi bar, that place is.

I can't even begin to overcome the unique kind of nazi cranks that inhabit that space. I see in slop people posting marble bust avatars with some of the most bewildering yet unhinged racist takes. So I've never even dug under the surface level nazi stuff to see the mean assholes who make up the rest of that hellscape.

Twitter was never good, none of the twitter clones have ever been good, no site like twitter can ever be good.

There are no funny people on twitter.

I was an avid twitter user for 10+ years but I quit earlier this year and haven't even felt an urge to open it again. It was just making me angry every time. It wasn't as bad before the Elon takeover though.

got banned on purpose when it became the Adolf Hitler website and never looked back. I'm still depressed as shit and doom scroll here and Tumblr a lot but it was somehow much worse

Twitter made me fucking nasty in my early 20's. I didn't realize it until it got super chuddy and I deleted my account.

Honestly it's a bit of a silver lining that seemingly every social media website has become irony poisoned and filled with AI garbage: more and more people logging off. Maybe we'll all be less alienated in the long run? I dunno, it's kind of hard to see clearly through all the smoke from this capitalist dumpster fire, don't huff that shit.

and yet, everyone agrees that this experience is better than bluesky lol

Thankfulky I have a somewhat curated experience on both platforms, following pretty much the same people. my feed is WOKE but not too insufferable or full of bots / chuds.

I was recently tempted to log back onto twitter for more professional purposes but I successfully resisted it and just logged into Mastodon. The app experience is amazing there, buttery smooth unlike Bluesky.

Bluesky too.