Are you leaving Twitter?

[Lord Camomile]

I'm inclined to, but I do actually find it useful for following interesting people and finding out about stuff.

It has its faults, but it kinda does what it does better than any of the others (in my experience). So it'll likely depending on either a) how bad Musk and everything else gets or b) if the interesting people all move to the same space elsewhere.

 

[Dr. Furface]

I spend too much time on Twitter so maybe it would be a good time for me to get off it, but I like it too much and I hate the idea of being forced out because some dickhead with more money than sense wants to turn it into libertarian madhouse. But if he introduces a monthly fee for everyone (not just for being verified) then I'll be gone. Also if the good people on there start leaving in droves, in which case there won't be any point sticking around.

 

[Cloo]

Yeah, I would definitely leave if it charged, it's not worth money to me.

It's funny how changes in policy affect social media - I massively cut back FB when it decided to spend more space pushing stuff to me than showing me what friends and family were doing. I genuinely found it a positive in my life for keeping tabs on people I know, as my friends are a quite disparate bunch, but when it obstructed that it became no good to me.

Twitter has always been interest rather than social, so the question is whether it stops being interesting.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I should but it’s an outlet for me to throw shade at arseholes, teetering along the line of getting banned

Definitely not a positive aspect of my life mentally mind

 

[skyscraper101]

I don’t particularly give AF if Musk owns it tbh.

As long as the scanner accounts that I follow keep providing links to live LAPD car chases I’ll keep my account active and alerts on.

 

[two sheds]

If all/most of the left wingers do leave/get expelled that will leave millions of not-too-interested-in-politics people exposed to torrents of far right propaganda - which I suspect is exactly what Musk would like. I'd also be a bit reserved about putting too much traceable personal information on there since I'm sure he'll be happy to share it with neo-nazis in due course.

 

[MickiQ]

The only reason I got a twitter account was to follow the rantings of Donald The Daft or your favourite President as he liked to refer to himself. I kind of lost interest after he was kicked off. I've never posted anything but I do very occasionally dip and take a look. There are some clever people who post clever insightful stuff along with a deep well of such utter stupidity that I fear for our survival as a species.
It won't make any difference to me that it has changed from a faceless and soulless American corporation into a different faceless and soulless American corporation that is run by the Emperor of Mars.

 

[Dr. Furface]

The only reason I got a twitter account was to follow the rantings of Donald The Daft or your favourite President as he liked to refer to himself. I kind of lost interest after he was kicked off.

Fair enough, but it's been a lot better since he's been gone.

 

[newme]

Sure I have an account I made years back but I never found anything remotely useful about the site in general. Maybe I was using it wrong somehow but I even read guides on the thing and found it was just a bunch of nonsense mostly. Reddit seems about the best mainsteam one but thats only with a third party interface and heavily modifying what subs you are on.

 

[Hash4Cash]

I've never been on it.

 

[MrCurry]

Until there’s an easy to use alternative with similar functionality to Twitter, Musk’s inept floundering will just be an entertaining floor show. The moment someone comes out with a viable alternative, there will be a stampede.

I‘m not sure what is preventing anyone coming up with something that works just like Twitter, but I heard Jack Dorsey is about to launch something new.

 

[The39thStep]

Nope not at the moment . Found loads of interesting articles on there and some good contacts .

 

[xenon]

I use twitter for a bit of news from the few people I follow and occasionly make a snarky comment to a politician or journo. Can I be arsed signing up to another system to do that, we'll see I guess.

Twitter is way overrated anyway. The people that are really into it seem to think it's important or something. Actual valuable info will find another way.

 

[mod]

Been on there for 11 years and use it daily. It has replaced newspapers for me. I've never experienced the 'cesspit of hate fuelled, vile and disgusting content' I always read about despite following a lot of political people. Although, a right winger would find much of what i 'like' vile and disgusting I guess.

It's a fantastic resource for music (Mark Lamarr is good to follow for example), football (its my main source for Fulham news), photography, architecture, street art, history and silly nonsense.

 

[pogofish]

Not planning to but I'll see how the whole Musk thing develops. Most of the time I've been on it though I just used it for local news feeds after the local paper went behind a paywall.

Most of the people I currently interact with on Twitter are reasonable, civilised and usually very pleasant folk plus my ex, who has become more like the sort of hate/bile-filled person folk are worried about post-Musk.

I have made a placeholder account on the Dutch Mastodon server, which was free FTM, just in case. Same username as here, so if anyone wants to give me a follow, we might be able to work-out just how to use it!

 

[RubyToogood]

As I mainly use Twitter to check the temperature of the lido, probably not.

If I was really career focused I'd spend loads of time reading and tweeting like others in my field, but I'm not.

 

[Brainaddict]

I'm not leaving yet, and I do think if it collapses it will be missed somewhat as a kind of global town hall where anyone can speak. Of course that means people say all sorts of horrible shit, but it is also a levelling space in a way that no other social media platform has achieved. Imagine, before twitter if you wanted to call Andrew Neil a dickhead you had to track him down in the real world and shout it at him. Very arduous. But seriously, its a platform for counter-discourse against mainstream news, among other things. That side of it shouldn't be downplayed I think. I'd love it if something equally open but not owned by dickheads could replace it, but Mastodon so far doesn't feel like it actually encourages interaction. I do think that in the course of trying to make money Twitter accidentally created cross-planetary communication on a scale we've not seen before and might not see again. And while the moderation is sometimes too light on bigotry, it also didn't create the machinery of far right politics that is Youtube or Facebook. Which I suspect is one of the reasons Musk was annoyed with it.

 

[Hollis]

Find it interesting how different people's experience is, I mean, if your twitter is a cesspit of hate and fury isnt that due to your choices of who to follow and what to read? My timeline there is largely long nerdy threads on various topics, links to other reading and some pictures of cats.

That's me - I've got 4 accounts - one for history, one for sports-related - both fine, another general one.

Then I have one for transport stuff - now that is a cess-pit.. .

 

[Kid_Eternity]

If you've moved to Mastodon and don't want to double post you can set up either way auto posting via https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Nope - it's useful for following cute animal pictures and the like. I post extremely rarely so just lurk in the main. I'd ditch if I had to pay for it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Not really sure why people are ditching Twitter at this stage*. I know everyone has their own thresholds, but every corporation out there is owned by evil billionaires.

You can put him on mute, you know? (I have).



* of course the time may come.

 

[danny la rouge]

If you've moved to Mastodon and don't want to double post you can set up either way auto posting via https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br

That’s handy, thanks. But I think really if Mastadon is to come into its own, a different style and content of discourse of its own needs to develop. (It does have that to a degree, but it won’t if it becomes mirror Twitter).

 

[nottsgirl]

I quite love Twitter for arts and politics but I will leave if necessary. There’s nothing quite like Twitter out there.

 

[NoXion]

I permanently logged out of Twitter a couple of years ago, when I began to recognise the same negative mental health impacts resulting from habitual use that I observed before choosing to permanently log out of Facebook.

From this experience I can deduce that algorithmically-driven social media is just bad for my mental health all-round.

 

[Maggot]

I enjoy Twitter and have no plans to quit.

I have noticed an increase in contentious posts on my timeline recently. Many more Tories, anti-immigrant stuff, general right wingness. It seemed to start shortly before the Musk takeover. Anyone else noticed this?

 

[Gromit]

I enjoy Twitter and have no plans to quit.

I have noticed an increase in contentious posts on my timeline recently. Many more Tories, anti-immigrant stuff, general right wingness. It seemed to start shortly before the Musk takeover. Anyone else noticed this?

I follow James O'Brien and Femi.
I think the algorithm knows not to bother me with Tories.

 

[RoyReed]

I have noticed an increase in contentious posts on my timeline recently. Many more Tories, anti-immigrant stuff, general right wingness. It seemed to start shortly before the Musk takeover. Anyone else noticed this?

I haven't noticed this yet, but if it does happen on my timeliness I'll just block the cunts. It's not what I go on Twitter for.

 

[passenger]

Why go elsewhere, when the weather is so lovely here?

 

[weltweit]

I have a small account, I follow some people, it is all very low key and I will probably keep it but I am not paying.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I only faintly engage with it. So not arsed one way or the other.