I de-activated my Twitter account today. I had decided to keep it without posting a while back, just in case anyone would try to use my handle to write weird stuff and impersonate me, but I realized there’s no way I’m ever going back to Twitter and posting anything there.
If someone impersonates me, well, since Twitter has become so ridiculous and toxic, I’m sure people will accept that it’s not me talking.
I wasn’t using this account, and hadn’t for something like a year, so, bye « X »!
@thelinuxEXP i've also done that but I might end up going back to it one day... if it can provide me value... because that's where the people are; it's the more modern facebook, even facebook is still holding on.
@thelinuxEXP I wonder what would happen if regular X/Twitter Users moved to mastodon, i would love to see so many accounts getting banned for toxic behavior ☕
@thelinuxEXP I used to follow you there. I deleted my account as soon as I heard the sale was going through. Just in case the new owner did something stupid like not letting you delete your account any more.
@thelinuxEXP Twitter blocked me because I said "chicken-shit". Then they informed me that I can get unblocked by taking a simple educational test. That is when I realized the Twitter is dead to anything but profits.
@thelinuxEXP I have been write-only posting my blogs and pretty much nothing else there for months now. Get zero engagement on anything. The algorithm really punishes non payers. Getting dangerously close to nuking it from orbit though.
@popey@thelinuxEXP I've been there primarily for breaking news and reaction from folks I know are competent. Those people are leaving. So, even though what I see is still relatively palatable, probably because I block, preemptively and without mercy, it's dramatically and increasingly less useful.
I joined, then ignored, Post. Bluesky doesn't seem to be inviting anyone on the wait list, and I won't go near anything re: Facebook.
@ThePlant@popey@thelinuxEXP I don't see how you can still use it for anything. Not on ethical terms or because of what's happening with the community or anything like that. Anytime I follow a Twitter link these days, it's a coin flip whether it loads. The physical act of trying to use the site is painful now.
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