have you quit twitter yet revisited

can't see myself actually bothering to delete my accounts, but increasingly driving away from it

I did delete just because I dislike how I've left a trail of abandoned profiles across social media through the years. Felt nice and tidy.

I haven't deleted my account, but I no longer have the app on my phone and I only go to the website when following a link from somewhere (often from ilxor.com).

Mods pls retitle, it’s called x now

From the other thread:

Feel like this needs a do-over. I'm pretty sure I voted that I'd never quit, but I left months ago. I was hoping for some End Days of Twitter excitement until a final blowout but it's more just drawn-out and boring.

― emil.y, Wednesday, April 5, 2023 1:17 AM (four months ago)

Didn't delete my account, though. Took it private and then logged out, haven't been back. Did Musk actually go through with the whole 'inactive accounts will be deleted' thing? I think I've been inactive long enough for it to be gone now.

what silverfish said

Haven’t logged in since they disabled third party apps usage. Have a Bluesky account now but can’t even bring myself to use it at this point. I’ve honestly enjoyed having one less online aspect of my usual routine unavailable.

i stopped posting ages ago but still look at my feed now and then, theres a couple dozen ppl i like who are still on there.

still on my work account for now but have logged out of my main/alt

I'm in between 'thinking about it' and 'will never quit'. I'd like to quit in the abstract, but still find myself using it out of habit and reading the small group of people who I follow that are also unable to quit.

Generally the experience hasn't changed that much tbh, I don't look at the big viral tweets with toxic replies, and just ignore or mentally tune out everything other than the music people that I keep up with.

I'll admit I was on Twitter more than usual this week to follow the Roisin Murphy fallout. There isn't really anything like Twitter to find out instantly what people are saying about a thing in the news. But I did that by searching for her name, rather than scrolling my own timeline, which I don't do anymore. The other thing I'll sometimes do is look up a particular account I follow and read through the last few weeks of their tweets. Sort of like checking up on an old friend. But yeah, all of that is just sort of occasionally dipping in as an outsider rather than actively participating on a daily basis.

I never got addicted to it, otherwise I’m sure I’d be one of those ppl claiming it’s still fine because they’re addicted

sorry, but if you're still on it like me, you're firmly in the "never quit" category

I got back on Twitter this week to post a link to my bluesky and telling people that I much, much, much, much preferred to see them anywhere else but Twitter. It was a very popular tweet, advice that everyone was stoked to hear!!!

Twitter is my primary social media presence and I'll be there until it dies. I will never switch to bluesky or Mastodon or whatever else because those all seem heavily populated by people for whom Not Being On Twitter is a huge part of their identity (the whole "I don't even own a TV" mindset, transferred to social media).

I deleted mine. I can't remember exactly when, but I have zero regrets or lingering affection for it

yes I have revisited twitter after having quit it

The other question is how many of you never quitters pay for the blue check and are you willing to give Elon/MBS a buccal swab

As far as I can tell bluesky is composed entirely of Ned reposts

i haven’t noticed much change in twitter tbh

yes, deleted my 2 accounts there a few months ago.

I deleted the app, only use the Web site through AdBlock browser, and use it way way less. Not missing it much.

Twitter is my primary social media presence and I'll be there until it dies. I will never switch to bluesky or Mastodon or whatever else because those all seem heavily populated by people for whom Not Being On Twitter is a huge part of their identity (the whole "I don't even own a TV" mindset, transferred to social media).

fwiw, from what i've seen on bluesky, that's not the vibe at all. and the main feature of bluesky and mastodon is that they're unpopulated, not heavily populated, and not by any specific kind of person or social media lover/hater.

it'd be cool if twitter's mac mini in the basement closet got shut down for 2 months so people could just move on to the next thing. i don't like being on a site run by (..., everyone knows how the rest goes). people are just there because people are there. it's the social media catch 22, you know, the one where better alternatives can't get traction because they don't have enough (..., everyone knows how the rest goes). so in conclusion, yeah, you know, whatever

Still there for NBA x.

I feel like ppl on bluesky are constantly talking about Twitter

i feel like people on ilx are constantly talking about twitter? what's your point

a deranged billionaire bought the most popular website and made it a neonazi site and made everybody call it X

but you're not allowed to talk about it otherwise that means you are doing "i don't own a TV"

conflating two posters here, ums doesn't deserve my ire exactly but jesus christ

i have never had an account but i used to get (((some))) enjoyment from (((some))) ilxors posting curated (usually us pol) tweets that i could view in a browser + context.

now that's not been disabled, so ilx is overrun with all of these context-less tweets and it's my feeling that posting twitter content should be discouraged by disabling embedding site-wide, especially since it's now a neonazi website.

you can still post on the neonazi website if you want to, i guess, but imo you definitely deserve to be made to feel a little bad about it.

i don't have an account on the other sites but it seems completely fine to me that people would want the same interface or whatever but with a less commercial, less nazi vibe and not owned by the world's biggest loser

*now that's been disabled

I voted that I have deleted my account, which is true — first the personal one, more recently the professional one. And I deleted the app from my phone almost as soon as Elon bought it. BUT I also created a new pseudonymous account just to follow people — partly people I need to follow for work, partly people I think are interesting and entertaining. But I never posted much and just don’t post at all now.

For me it was just that the Elon saga got too stupid and embarrassing, and he’s seriously fucked with journalists in particular (among other groups he’s singled out, obviously), so I’d just rather not be there in any official capacity.

That said, I think there’s lots of good reasons for people to stay active and engaged it it. For now it’s still better for following news than any other platform.

a deranged billionaire bought the most popular website and made it a neonazi site and made everybody call it X

Nobody calls it X, though. He can't make people call it X — even mainstream news outlets refer to it as "X, which everyone still calls Twitter". And the nazis and terfs and all the other assholes...they're just sad and laughable, because their only outlet for their pitiful rage-squawks is Twitter, which is becoming more worthless by the day. I mean, it never had any real-world impact to begin with, people just thought it was important because every journalist was on there so it was quoted and featured in news articles. But Twitter was never real life, and now it's even less real life than it was before Elon bought it and ran it into the ground. So anyone who's still making it a prominent feature of their online identity is just the saddest fucking loser, and instantly identifiable as such. Tweeting nazi shit or terf shit is not scary, it's not a power move, it's revealing yourself as a pants-pissing loser worthy of nothing but contempt and pity.

now that's not been disabled, so ilx is overrun with all of these context-less tweets and it's my feeling that posting twitter content should be discouraged by disabling embedding site-wide, especially since it's now a neonazi website.

Yeah, beyond the open flaunting of white supremacist shit, the increased uselessness of twitter embeds has been gnawing at me in recent weeks.

Tweeting nazi shit or terf shit is not scary, it's not a power move, it's revealing yourself as a pants-pissing loser worthy of nothing but contempt and pity.

I dunno. I think the tweeting of nazi/terf shit is pretty scary.

Why? Nazis in public, where they can actually potentially hurt someone, are scary, and need to be resisted with immediate and overwhelming violence. Nazis on social media are sad losers talking shit to make themselves feel less sad. Same thing with terfs or anti-abortion protesters or anyone else of that kind of antisocial ilk. If you see them pulling their bullshit on the street, by all means hit them in the teeth with a hammer. But on Twitter? They're a fucking joke. They're only on Twitter because no one in their real life wants to hear their shit.

They normalize hatefulness. "We're here, we're Nazis, get used to us." And after a while people get used to them. That's scary.

I don't regularly read and never tweet but I log on occasionally to tell people they are irredeemable pieces of shit

I had this one friend who was a diehard myspace user and well after everyone else had abandoned the site (late 00s) she not only kept posting there but would often send links to her myspace in emails and AIM chats to the point where our group of friends legitimately couldn't tell if it was a bit or otherwise.

Nazis online make Nazi-adjacent motherfuckers feel more comfortable getting in touch with their own full-on cuntishness.

i feel like people on ilx are constantly talking about twitter? what's your point

― budo jeru, Saturday, September 2, 2023 6:09 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

It wasn't a point just an observation

i haven't noticed any increase in nazis on my feed. tbh i never really encountered any directly, other than ppl quote tweeting or screenshotting to dunk on them

interesting to note that the person who thinks colonialism is nbd also thinks nazis are nbd

I'll accidentally swipe back to the For You tab every so often but that seems to just be people followed by people I follow.

Another twitter for you all to savour.

my wife calls from burning man, she says she's trapped, she's unhappy, she wants out. yeah, then she told me how bad burning man was pic.twitter.com/yQ5sW4IS03

— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) September 3, 2023

Twitter is my primary social media presence and I'll be there until it dies. I will never switch to bluesky or Mastodon or whatever else because those all seem heavily populated by people for whom Not Being On Twitter is a huge part of their identity (the whole "I don't even own a TV" mindset, transferred to social media).

― read-only (unperson), Saturday, 2 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Lol, how are you this dumb? Just a complete misreading of the thing.

Hey, watch it with saying “lol how are you this dumb”, I don’t like to see that and no one likes to be told that

This inspired me to look at my timeline for the first time in a week or two and it’s bleak. It feels like Facebook.

🫡🫡🫡 xp

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

as the singer from aerosmith, if I quit my account it will be squatted, so I have to keep it. I seldom post now and most of what I do is in answer to questions about whether we're going to play "dream on" at our pensacola stop, etc. I am still using it for promotion, it's a free and useful promotion tool, but its use value is now outpaced by Instagram, and that by some distance; people think Twitter is still what it was in terms of reach, but it's not, it's moribund.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i thought that the downfall of twitter would lead people to come back here to post.

this did not happen.

Twitter is my primary social media presence and I'll be there until it dies. I will never switch to bluesky or Mastodon or whatever else because those all seem heavily populated by people for whom Not Being On Twitter is a huge part of their identity (the whole "I don't even own a TV" mindset, transferred to social media

― read-only (unperson), Saturday, 2 September 2023

that is my feeling too

hard to square that with “anyone who's still making it a prominent feature of their online identity is just the saddest fucking loser, and instantly identifiable as such”

i think more people would migrate to another platform if it was clear what the successor would be. so far there is bluesky, mastodon, and threads, each attracting somewhat different types of users.

I'm still not seeing individuals post much on threads. it's useful for following media outlets, but the commentary below those posts is about the calibre you get on instagram; lots of unidentifiable generic people saying nothing of value. I've never seen a robust discussion there.

April 2022 results

Option Votes
no, I will never quit 25
I have never had a twitter account 24
no, but I'm thinking about it 23
yes, I deleted my account 8
I logged out but didn't delete 8
I am Elon Musk 8
I cannot answer because I signed an NDA 3

September 2023 results

Option Votes
yes, I deleted my account 20
I logged out but didn't delete 18
I have never had a twitter account 16
no, I will never quit 13
no, but I'm thinking about it 10
I cannot answer because I signed an NDA 1
I am Elon Musk 1

~no, I will never quit~

this is a bizarre answer to me, for absolutely anything. i guess the exception is "will you quit trying to save your family member/best friends from burning alive" or whatever hypothetical that will never happen. sure, don't quit that, why would you quit trying to save your burning loved one, keep going by all means. but for...just about anything else in the universe, to pledge to never quit? i can't imagine that. the implications of that decision are not good

It's just. a social media site. No need for hysterics.

i think more people would migrate to another platform if it was clear what the successor would be. so far there is bluesky, mastodon, and threads, each attracting somewhat different types of users.

Partially yeah but I also think many had the same experience I did - "hry actually I don't miss this at all, why would I want another version of it"?

i thought that the downfall of twitter would lead people to come back here to post.

I deleted Twitter, I did use it a lot for following new info on video games and some other stuff - didn't really tweet much myself. Haven't really seen the need to move to any other platform and never been a prolific poster on ilx anyway. It just means I'm playing more video games.

I haven't quit, but it is so hard to use with the few 3rd party apps that work anymore, that my time on it has been reduced drastically. So that's good? Or bad.

"i thought that the downfall of twitter would lead people to come back here to post."

Twitter hasn't collapsed, for one. The posters that I got to know through twitter mostly haven't left and many have just put in a placeholder Blue Sky account in case X is to finally collapse.

xyzz knows catturd irl? :O

🐱

xyz can you leave me alone?

Asking - please, stop reviewing me and my posts. Just leave me alone.

uk leftist shitposting / comedy twitter is sadly reduced right now, but it's still largely uninfected by the bluetick menace, think there are a thousand ways to use twitter and most seem completely alien to everyone else.

Hey, watch it with saying “lol how are you this dumb”, I don’t like to see that and no one likes to be told that

― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 3 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Gonna sto reviewing mine, z?

And if you are reviewing my choices on the poll I will probably say something about that.

asking people to not engage your posts on ilx is a fundamental misunderstanding of how message boards work imo. a person can totally say "please don't talk to me the way you're talking to me, it's insulting and I deserve better" and that's happened a lot here over the years. and I feel like there used to be a way to mute somebody? but "don't talk to me here" I feel like is not a viable thing on a message board. if you post, your posts are up for response. if the response is "terrible post" over and over, well, asking the person "stop saying that" seems fair, and I think you'll get support if that's the case. but I don't see "post reviewing" here, just responses that are annoying to a person -- that's message boards for you, imo

You can killfile, yes. Won't stop me responding to what I see. Unless I use killfile on you, which I won't.

Because I love you all. Even the haters.

No it’s actually better when bullies just leave you alone

xp

xp I know that tone is sometimes difficult to parse online, but is there a way to read that which doesn’t sound like a stalker

Is my mocking tone really that much of a struggle for you?

I agree with Mr. Joanie Chachi. This is true for anywhere on the web, IMO. I ran across someone's bluesky profile yesterday and she was angry that randos were commenting on her posts. Like...that's what's going to happen? Bluesky doesn't have private profiles. I understand if you were used to having that on twitter but getting bent out of shape that you're on a platform that doesn't allow for that and then people see what you post is...utterly missing the point. Obviously if it crosses the line into talking and harassment, that's another thing entirely. And ILX allows for you to killfile someone so you don't need to see their comments to you. I suppose ILX might be better served with a 'block' function but this is a free site.

talking = stalking in the above post.

obviously if it crosses the line into talking and harassment, that's another thing entirely

this is what z_tbd is saying. the rest of your post is a trueism about the internet being public that is beside the point.

I will probably never quit, I’ll just open the app less and less ala Facebook and Reddit (or Usenet once upon a time). I have no interest in replicating the ‘Twitter experience’ through another app though.

yeah I'm not super familiar with the in-between history of xxxyvyxyxyx and z_tbd, so if I've missed some long running harassment I apologise.

z has said some annoying stuff I've disagreed with on a couple of topics like AI, but again who reviewed whose post first here?

i don't know and I don't care, get a room you two.

Not asking you. Since ilx is time stamped we can see the answer.

Jesus, when it gets to the level of "He started it!"

that's how all good wars start

Well anyway, congratulations to everyone who has newly quit or logged out of twitter in the past year, apologies to those who can't for dystopian computer reasons, and big old "remember that Elon Musk is an antisemite bastard" to the rest of you.

turns out there is an "X" I recommend you all click on

This thread got all 'x y and z'

we are one

dont really know how to answer this because I haven't "quit" Twitter, as in I didn't delete my account, I mean why what's the point? some people I like still post on there and it's not like I myself ever tweeted a lot. but I do check it much less frequently. for one because the TL is always broken and so it sucks for live sports updates, something it used to be great at (also a lot of the good accounts are gone and some of the bots I liked broke). for two the vibe just sucks there now. it feels like a party after the cops came, where half the people left, and the people who stuck around are folks you don't really know, and the mood is just way more somber. nobody's putting effort into it anymore. I mean I hate Elon and his blue check brigade as much as anyone but just always talking about how much they suck, I dunno, that isn't really fun anymore. so then Bluesky is like your buddy with a bare apartment who invites everyone over afterwards to drink around the kitchen table, seems like everyone is going "we doing this? maybe?", it's just not the same. but maybe one day. I dunno.

I did hop on a bit yesterday and saw this tweet getting a lot of traction as I think it's resonating with a lot of people:

I'm 38 years old and I think this is the first time in my internet-using life that there's just, like, nothing fun to do online anymore. I open a web browser and just sit there with nowhere to go.

— Bradford Pearson (@BradfordPearson) September 20, 2023

and this response:

I’ve been thinking about this and it’s a quietly radicalizing realization that rapacious profit seeking has hollowed out so much of what’s fun and community enhancing in our society. So many things just stopped existing because they don’t return 300% to awful people. https://t.co/BoerphLGUo

— justin van wormer (@jdvdub) September 21, 2023

and this:

one of the most depressing realizations ive had in my career researching Internet Business Things is that the wild, wacky parts of the early internet (goatse, liveleak etc) didn’t fizzle out bc they were just too dang wild or wacky. It’s bc they weren’t easy enough to monetize https://t.co/1BT3i9uMnT

— shoshana wodinsky (she/her) (@swodinsky) September 22, 2023

which feels like a good point of discussion, because I've been feeling that a lot lately too. I write a music blog and recently had to redesign parts of it which made me think, "why, whats the point?". I started it back when you could actually find cool/obscure shit via Google and blogs all came with a bunch of links to other similar blogs and what not, that's all just kinda gone now. ever discover someone actually writing interesting shit on Wordpress in 2023? when was the last time you found someone's weird homepage?

it loops back to Twitter because, even though the vibe was shitty before, at least there was a lot of strange and amusing stuff to discover, people like actually putting effort into shit in a way that seems to be evaporating very quickly since Elon took over. idk feels like the end of an era. or maybe that era died out 10-15 years ago and the last vestiges of it are finally getting choked out.

It's true, the kind of network building that existed in the blog days is pretty much gone outside of a purely captialistic model in which people swap meaningless likes and follows only for the sake of driving engagement numbers, it feels like such a dumb game to play.

i havent logged in in a couple weeks now even to check the few informational accounts i havent found equivalents of elsewhere, think this is probably it