have you quit twitter yet?

My husband and I use it to talk to each other. Neither of us uses it in a work context, so it's perfect.

get the impression most small groups are on whatsapp or signal (or local equivalents, e.g. fb messenger, kakaotalk, etc.). slack and discord works too, but they're a bit computery for a lot of people.

I wonder if people use Slack for liek small freinds groups

― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, September 7, 2022 3:25 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ever wonder what happened to the Chicago threads?

I haven't followed many more than 1000 accounts at a time on twitter, but it's fun following and unfollowing different accounts to change things up. I like that all of it is very much in public

slack sounds like some kind of gossipy nextdoor thing to me. I'm probably wrong in thinking that, but it doesn't seem appealing at all

I heard that Slack is great for expressing opinions about message board posters!

I think most people use it for work.

I've been doxxed once for a review, and I've seen grisly shit, but not once have I thought about quitting Twitter. Maybe I've screened it too well. I gotta click on Nazi shit to get knots in my stomach.

I will always follow you Alfred

love you

slack sounds like some kind of gossipy nextdoor thing to me. I'm probably wrong in thinking that, but it doesn't seem appealing at all

not really. more like private IRC servers.

I tried joining a Discord group (board? community? I don’t fucking know) and hated everything about it instantly. Twitter is definitely my favorite social platform. I really need to wipe my Facebook account, though. That is a true hell site at this point. It’s got so many promoted posts that it’s like trying to communicate with people by shouting at them from the opposite end of a mall.

I have a few middle-aged friends on Marco Polo and they recently invited me to try it out. Instant revulsion. I guess it’s kind of a private group-based TikTok?

get the impression most small groups are on whatsapp or signal
The reason we use Slack as a private messaging service is because it has a different alert sound, so we always know to check it asap. If WhatsApp let you set different alert sounds for different groups, we would probably just use that. (Maybe it does now? I haven't checked in a while.) We used to use a couples app called Avocado, which was great. You could store lists in it and you always knew for sure who the other person was. But most couples apps are too cutesy. "Send your babe a heart sticker!" Yeah, no. I just want to remind him to get paracetamol on his way home.

I heard that Slack is great for expressing opinions about message board posters!

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 8 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

That's right.

the confusion is entertaining me because I remember the mid 90s when a few seasoned irc users would grouse about instant messaging apps

"why would I need icq/aim/etc when I can just send a private message on irc?"

and now most workplaces have rotated all the way through only having email -> private message apps -> teams/slack/etc and we've gone full circle back to irc

The Queen is about to die you can't quit now

elon hasn't bought it yet, deal will close in 3-6 months. so no point quitting now

― flopson, Wednesday, April 27, 2022 3:20 AM (six months ago)

point: flopson

People are going to be allowed to send death threats to one another.

Why quit now?

Thank my zonxu stars for ile

I deactivated last night. If you don't reactivate in 30 days, then they let you consider it deleted (although info from it may still be around). Hopefully, even if he does fire 3/4 of employees, as was
recently reported intention, hackers won't get to little old me before then.

I never, in eight years of posting, had any trolls, any other kind of problem. It was fun.

i'm not going to quit

I basically treat twitter as a little music outpost where I see posts from a relatively small number of people, dm tracks to dj & producer friends, and only about 20 people ever seem to see what I tweet. I try to ignore the rest of it (latest tweets mode is helping hugely with that!). So I'll stay on until it becomes a wholly unenjoyable experience.

dow -- why have you quit if you had no problems?

Funnily enough I am messing with my settings for the first after being on it for five years.

Twitter has built a huge list of interests, which I want to clear. I'm having to until boxes lol

*untick

I actually was required to get a Twitter account for a class I'm taking but I had on already - Like all social networks it is only as enjoyable as the people who yo uare networked to on it and most people I know do not use it so its like a small exclusive club for me

Twitter is my preferred avenue for receiving promotion from musicians, movie-makers, comic book creators, etc, as well as some small-to-mid-sized scientific accounts, and then just like random "here's a cute picture of a possum!" type stuff. I don't see a lot of negativity in my feed. When I do, I unfollow. I don't see any point in quitting.

― peace, man, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 1:47 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I haven't seen too much talk in my feed about leaving. I'm definitely not happy about Musk owning it though, or the specter of Trump's return. My revulsion at Musk has only increased over the past 6 months. Ultimately, all of the accounts I follow are for idle entertainment and I'm more amenable to deleting mine, although I might have to figure out where else some of the smaller accounts I follow reside on the internet.

Will more people read Trump's statements if they are on tWITTEr? I mean people who want to read them no where to find then now right?

unequivocally yes people will read Trump's tweets, ime it's not really about wanting to find them or not

I signed out a couple months ago to focus on a deadline and haven't really missed it much tbh. I definitely won't even think of signing back in until the US elections are past

I mean whenever he posts something truly insane on Truth Social it winds up all over Twitter anyway

not planning to leave, but will re-evaluate if it turns into an utter dumpster fire

"Before Mr Musk’s takeover the company was owned largely by institutional investors, with the Vanguard Group the biggest stakeholder at 10.3 per cent. Mr Musk himself held a 9.2 per cent stake."

Not sure this was any preferable to Musk Ox

they own about 10% of everything

or they hold it on behalf of their investors.

Feeling better about my decision to quit three months ago. As noted upthread, I haven't entirely deleted my account, and I still do look at tweets posted elsewhere and occasionally search within the site. But I deleted the app off my phone and never read my own timeline, which means I spend considerably less time on it. I also downloaded my archive, which I like having if I do decide to delete my account. (For now, I want to maintain the ability to contact people through the site if needed.)

After some thought, my current decision is to unfollow a lot of the random and more useless accounts so that I can keep an eye on what the ones I truly care about are doing.

like the Healthcliff P.H. comments one

this place is evil and destroyed my mind even during that phase when they were making half-hearted attempts to moderate explicitly violent fascist content (when it wasn't coming from bluechecks) - thank god I've been banned too often to bother trying to participate because it seems so much worse in that regard these days (as if in anticipation for what's coming). if checking it for 2 mins can still fuck my day up I hate to think what hours most days for years did to my brain

it definitely did something bad because if I have a phone or computer to hand I'll still start mindlessly typing the url and have to stop myself through conscious effort if I realise in time what I'm doing

dow -- why have you quit if you had no problems?

― xyzzzz

But I've got 30 days to reactivate, and could later start over with new screen name.

if I have a phone or computer to hand I'll still start mindlessly typing the url

Over a month ago I installed a website blocking app on my phone to help keep me away from some of my worst time sinks (never ilx tho, lol) and I still unconsciously try to go to twitter a couple times a day.

yeah I need that ha

I’ve not quit Twitter, I’m just there

Every few months I get my husband to lock me out of my Twitter account for a little break, which is great in some ways, but Twitter is where I get my actual news from, so I always feel very cut off from the world when I do this.

It's the comedy I will really miss if it all goes away. People like Vinny Thomas or Andrew Nadeau.

i'll miss art / painting tweets. i'll legit miss random restaurant, i've spent hours browsing that (h/t lag00n). i just need to find more quiet content type things on the internet where i can kill time in a non-anxiety-inducing way.

someone on a library listserv was talking about something called mastodon. anyone here familiar with it?