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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.

[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.

[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.