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[jazzfish]

Twitter just told me I've been there for twelve years. Might be a day or two late, but that sounds about right. I joined up originally because that's where my writing group at the time were most active, and I didn't want to lose touch with them when I moved to Vancouver.

Fitting that my Twitter anniversary comes right when I'm giving up on it. It's been spiraling down since the Musk takeover a couple months ago, and they shut off access for third-party clients late last week. I tried using the official app briefly, and the website even more briefly, and those are not things I want to continue doing. At least Facebook's terrible algorithmic timeline limits itself to people I'm following (plus ads).

So ... goodbye, Twitter. You were never a huge part of my life but you were always there, full of memes and snark. And you kept me in touch with a couple dozen folks that will now mostly drift away.

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I could get on Mastodon. I've considered it. Still am, actually. It does look to have more staying power than the average Hot New Flash-in-the-pan Social Media Site. And the Tapbots client (by the folks who made the Twitter client I used until last Friday) is in early-access and likely pretty good.

Or I could just fill that particular new-content endorphin-rush hole with something else. A book, maybe.

Will see.

Comments

[reedrover]

I don’t have a Twitter account. I just have open browser tabs to read public posts from a few folks who have interesting things to say, such as Ursula Vernon. It works well enough for me.

[jazzfish]

I /think/ you can set up an RSS feed for a twitter feed, which might be what I end up doing for the small number of people I still want to keep track of... but that just feels like reinventing the wheel after someone else has smashed it.

[greenstorm]

I have been debating getting on mastodon since the twitter Musk thing (I haven't used my twitter in at least half a dozen years). Finally about a month ago I got as far as poking around on it and realized... I already camped my name in May. Heh.

[jazzfish]

Heh. Well done past Greenie. :)

What instance are you on, out of curiousity? Part of my not having gotten around to dealing with it is being paralyzed by choice of instance.

[greenstorm]

The main one, mastodon social. I think if you do a search for "greenstorm mastodon" I come up. :> Can always grab another one on a different instance later if need be, but this gives me my option of my name on what is likely to be the most scrutinized one (which I think is important with how it's set up).

"Done first, fancy later"

[jazzfish]

Bah, mastodon dot social is not accepting new signups. And apparently I am being picky about which instance I join.

[shanaqui]

I've been enjoying Mastodon; it's often more thoughtful, slower, more personal. I find myself making good use of the hashtags to almost feel like I'm hanging out with a community.

[jazzfish]

Ah, nice. I don't know that I'd use it like that (I was not really into Twitter for the community, more for the easy access to memes and news of the moment) but it's good to hear it does work for folks.

Which server are you on?

[shanaqui]

Yeah, Mastodon's less like that. Some news of the moment, but it tends to be a bit more substantial (helped by the character count allowed). I'm on Wandering.Shop, a vaguely SF/F-geared instance (it's meant to feel a bit like a convention). I can share the invite code if you're interested, there's usually two opportunities a week (no personal invite codes, to help control the growth of the instance).

[jazzfish]

Oh! If you wouldn’t mind sharing a code, then yes please. :)

[shanaqui]

This week's looks like it's done already, but I'll snooze this notif so I remember to grab it when it goes up! :D

[shanaqui]

It was up late this week, but here it is! https://wandering.shop/invite/bAhwjHG9

[jazzfish]

Got it, thank you muchly!