Are you leaving Twitter?

[Orang Utan]

Apparently likes are private now, but I don’t even know what that means

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Apparently likes are private now, but I don’t even know what that means

You can no longer see on anyone else's profile what they have 'liked' and use that as basis for a pile-on, or turfing them out of the labour party, or identifying that they have a history of liking posts by fascists, or whatever

 

[Orang Utan]

You can no longer see on anyone else's profile what they have 'liked' and use that as basis for a pile-on, or turfing them out of the labour party, or identifying that they have a history of liking posts by fascists, or whatever

Ah, can’t say I’ve ever done that myself.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It’s a shit way for Musk to say “hey look, more people are liking/engaging, so give me more ad money”, because bigots will no longer have to justify their support for cunts as nobody will know.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Reports that there has been a big data breach on tweeter.

Changing passwords and being careful of anything that comes in on the e-mail address you use for it are recommended

more here.

 

[two sheds]

That's going to annoy Musk - the article refers to it as Twitter rather than X

 

[Orang Utan]

I’ve just asked for my archive and will delete my account once that’s downloaded.
Threads is looking like the frontrunner for alternatives. Am I right to assume this?

 

[pbsmooth]

I’ve just asked for my archive and will delete my account once that’s downloaded.
Threads is looking like the frontrunner for alternatives. Am I right to assume this?

Possibly. I don’t use that either but I see it forced on me on instagram - sadly I think Threads has a lot of the same shite as Twitter now. Not as bad but far from perfect. It’s just built in to social media unfortunately.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I’m not leaving Twitter yet because if/when Trump loses it will be fucking incredible on there

 

[Winot]

I’ve just asked for my archive and will delete my account once that’s downloaded.
Threads is looking like the frontrunner for alternatives. Am I right to assume this?

I haven't yet found an alternative to Twitter of old. Bluesky is the closest but not enough posters are on there.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m not leaving Twitter yet because if/when Trump loses it will be fucking incredible on there

Part of my thinking is that is a GOOD reason for leaving Twitter. Why do you disagree?

 

[Orang Utan]

Possibly. I don’t use that either but I see it forced on me on instagram - sadly I think Threads has a lot of the same shite as Twitter now. Not as bad but far from perfect. It’s just built in to social media unfortunately.

I have not seen one post on there yet to confirm this. It’s all ADHD and screenwriters in my feed. Not seen any hate, nor any misinformation.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Quora for angry people. I've got better things to do with my time.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I’ve used threads for a year now, the culture is trolls tend to be blocked rather than engaged with, theres also a ‘hide post for all’ feature meaning if someone trolls your thread you can hide it and no one sees it. It’s chill. I just wish some more journalists/writers came over, I think some folks enjoy flame wars but not me.

 

[Elpenor]

I’m going to leave it for the AV forum

 

[Puddy_Tat]

dunno really.

i've never really had any bother on tweeter, i'm fairly selective who i follow, and i use the 'following' not the 'for you' so don't get any crap.

but the last week has made me even less comfortable at the idea of being on there at all.

i'm on blooksi* but there's only a few people on there that i follow, and things like updates from local bus / train operators, local council, and other organisations i want to get info from all haven't moved across. mastodon was similar only even less so.

don't want to do threads as that's part of farcebook.

blargh.

* - courtesy of Orang Utan

 

[Orang Utan]

As for what tipped me over eventually - an accumulation of aaarggh and eunggh.
It’s weird seeing a real situation I have direct knowledge of being described in the way I’ve seen it described on social media, as it is happening.
And while that may be disconcerting enough, seeing the CEO of Xitter deliberately exacerbating such a situation that he’d already massivle enabled, by describing at as a ‘civil war’, is just too much cognitive dissonance. I hope this proves to be the last straw for Musk and something very bad happens to him soon.
Twitter/TikTok has become The Matrix.
Though Agent Smith would never go on Joe Rogan and smoke a blunt.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Part of my thinking is that is a GOOD reason for leaving Twitter. Why do you disagree?

Because it will be fucking funny watching the right wing nutjobs losing their minds. Including the sites owner.

 

[Orang Utan]

Because it will be fucking funny watching the right wing nutjobs losing their minds. Including the sites owner.

I don’t see how that is funny considering the potential fallout from it

 

[magneze]

The End of The Twitter Era

I've been thinking a lot about how social networks die. Will Twitter decline like MySpace, or collapse like Digg?

www.sandofsky.com

 

[tony.c]

I got banned for 12 hours for a comment on Israel last week and haven't been back since then.

 

[danny la rouge]

The End of The Twitter Era

I've been thinking a lot about how social networks die. Will Twitter decline like MySpace, or collapse like Digg?

www.sandofsky.com

This is a good article and explains why I never took to Threads. Which I did wonder since it ostensibly does the same as Bluesky (and old Twitter).

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I wasn't on twitter anymore but i'm kinda liking bluesky

 

[weltweit]

Not leaving X at the moment. My feed is pretty good right now, motorcycles, motor racing, humour, photographers, wildlife etc .. absolutely no politics .. Elon Musk being the owner doesn't yet irritate me enough to force me to another provider. If urban decides to cease X embedding I would be a little irritated.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Mrs SI has now left, leaving her 9.5k followers behind

 

[existentialist]

My decision to bale was twofold. First, Xitter has become almost unusable, thanks to the endless feeds of low-grade ads, and Musk's capricious approach to the way the site works; but secondly, and more importantly, I like the idea that Musk cannot turn the entire thing into a RW echo chamber without feeling some consequences - like people leaving.

And, judging by some of the shade being thrown in BlueSky's direction, that is being felt. Good. If Musk wants Xitter to become Truth Social 2.0, that's just fine by me. But, just as I don't have any plans to operate a Truth Social account, I have no desire to continue to participate in a similarly unpleasant forum like Xitter.

 

[Gromit]

My Twitter behaviour remains unchanged.
If someone sends me something bon Twitter I look at it and then leave.
I never fire it up to browse.

 

[two sheds]

I'd never thought about the 'sign in with twitter' options. Do people do that - ie. browse within twitter, and what's the benefit?

Sorry I have no idea how it works.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'd never thought about the 'sign in with twitter' options. Do people do that - ie. browse within twitter, and what's the benefit?

i've never gone in for the 'sign in with twitter/ farcebook / google' option on any site (there's other places that invite that as well) - think it's more secure to have separate sign in for each place, and presume doing that means that twitter (etc) get their paws on what i said at other site - do not want.

or have i misunderstood it?

 

[danny la rouge]

I'd never thought about the 'sign in with twitter' options. Do people do that - ie. browse within twitter, and what's the benefit?

Sorry I have no idea how it works.

Space Karen is trying to make it so you have to sign in to Twitter to see stuff. You already can’t see threads (only the top post) without signing in. And there are increasingly prompts to sign in rather than view without signing in.

That’s really the issue.