Content is title. What made you determined to leave Twitter, and what alternative are you using?

  • adam_y@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I had a tweet that went viral.

    I had thousands of people calling me all sorts of horrible things, threatening to do horrible things and generally being horrible. Willfull, ignorant people that tried to deliberately take things out of context, push their own agenda and create the most ridiculous straw man arguments.

    And then Elon Musk took over so I had to quit.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Mastodon. It’s not invite-only like Bluesky, it doesn’t track you like Threads and it’s federated like Lemmy (in fact, there’s some crossover in some instances).

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        1 year ago

        You could try putting a metal trash can over your head and letting the neighborhood kids hit it with a stick.

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          Just get neighborhood kids you trust! I rounded up a few randos because I couldn’t find my usual pack, and it started out fine, but a few of them decided it would be more fun to ignore the trash can and crack me in the nuts. I said I WANTED TO SIMULATE TWITTER! NOT REDDIT!!!

  • Maxnmy's@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Putting blue checks at the top ruined Twitter for me. Every trending tweet gets spammed with 😂 emojis, right-wing disinformation, and transphobic hate speech. I got tired of scrolling past them just to start seeing normal commenters. Lemmy and Mastodon are better because the average user isn’t a total fucking idiot with an agenda.

  • Jean Prouvaire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When Twitter cut off third party apps I switched to the Fediverse. Got a weird sense of deja vu a few months later.

  • DBT@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The day I opened the app and it said I had to pay to continue using 2FA I immediately closed and deleted it.

  • Jakdracula@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was a beta tester for twitter.
    Didn’t really “get” it then, and it never really clicked with me. I hardly used it, and when musk came in I deleted my account.

  • Shambling Shapes@lemmy.one
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    I barely used it to begin with. I closed my account entirely once Musk bought it. Sad chuckle when I see someone just now discover what a racist dirtbag he is.

  • xkforce@lemmy.world
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    I wasnt really that attached to it to begin with so when Musk took over I saw the writing on the wall. He was going to turn it into an even worse shithole than it already was and I wanted no part in tacitly supporting it. Just like I basically left Reddit when it was clear spez and the board were hellbent on sudokuing the site with their boneheaded API decision and the fallout from it.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Honestly, it was just too busy for me to keep up with. I’d check and there were 300 Tweets from all the people I was interested in since the last time I checked.

    But when Musk bought it, I deleted my account.

  • octoperson@sh.itjust.works
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    When they upped the characters it changed the character. You can’t have substantive discussion in 140, but in 280 you can be tedious trying.

    • squiblet@kbin.social
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      Twitter was sort of like a code-golf game when it was 140. Annoying, but it was their gimmick… it also made sense when theoretically people posted by SMS. 280 was freer but then it becomes more like any other social media… and people would just post as threads anyway, which was pretty much like a reddit or facebook post with the most confusing interface ever, and the ability to reply to or ‘like’ sentences individually, which is interesting but not super useful.

  • Carter@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I barely used it and just deleted my account the second Elon was involved.

  • Bill
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    1 year ago

    I still read it but I stopped posting as soon as Elon Musk bought it. I’m not creating content for free for a billionaire (derogatory) fascist. I’ll tweet on Bluesky or Mastodon occasionally and still call it a tweet and if I want to say something longer I’ve got a blog nobody reads and if there’s something I want to chat about there’s Lemmy.

    • Otter@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      This makes the most sense to me, with Reddit as well.

      Read it because there’s content there worth keeping up with (local communities, school, career stuff), but only on fedi stuff.

  • zerbey@lemmy.world
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    Hardly used it anyway, and when Elon took over my feed was 99% posts by him and 1% porn accounts. So, not worth keeping it.

  • drdiddlybadger@pawb.social
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    Too much Nazi shit and other forms of bigotry really. I just stopped posting my artwork there entirely and now post on bluesky and mastodon. Sometimes I use Facebook network shit to assure family that I am alive.

    • Ejh3k@lemmy.world
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      It’s was like 2013 for me. I think it was when they fudged with the time lines so that you weren’t seeing things chronologically but how the algorithm wanted you to see it.

      I had a very decent account at the time too. Couple thousand followers (before the bot accounts started getting super bad) and like 30k tweets.

      I still have an account, but I literally only use to to tweet stories to one podcast.