I mean I sympathize with spending a lot of hours on shitty proprietary platforms, as well almost all do I suspect. I used to spend a lot of time on reddit (though I never met a single person from it).
But how have you made it this far without like, branching out or moving to mastodon or something? twitter has been in a death spiral since elon bought it, this is just the latest plunge...
twitter has been in a death spiral since elon bought it
It really hasn't. It's gotten worse, people have made mastodon accounts, but very few people have actually left twitter. I don't use mastodon because none of my friends use it, simple as that.
I meant a death spiral in terms of elon running it into the ground, not in terms of your friend group still using it, but yeah, I get that I guess
I have a different sphere among which not that many people heavily used it to begin with and many of them left twitter last year, or at least made sure they set up mastodon as a backup and found as many of their core friends on there as they could in case twitter became unusable for them or cracked down or whatever under 🍉's capricious rule.
You might want to consider doing the same tbh. It doesn't have to be mastodon, that is just brought up a lot because it is a twitter clone so it might be appealing in terms of similar features, enabling similar browsing habits, etc. but one way or another you should try to establish that network of people on alternative platforms, whether its mastodon or hexbear or email or discord or matrix or IRL, whatever, just so you don't lose touch with all your friends the next time elon causes a meltdown at twitter.
I mean I sympathize with spending a lot of hours on shitty proprietary platforms, as well almost all do I suspect. I used to spend a lot of time on reddit (though I never met a single person from it).
But how have you made it this far without like, branching out or moving to mastodon or something? twitter has been in a death spiral since elon bought it, this is just the latest plunge...
It really hasn't. It's gotten worse, people have made mastodon accounts, but very few people have actually left twitter. I don't use mastodon because none of my friends use it, simple as that.
I meant a death spiral in terms of elon running it into the ground, not in terms of your friend group still using it, but yeah, I get that I guess
I have a different sphere among which not that many people heavily used it to begin with and many of them left twitter last year, or at least made sure they set up mastodon as a backup and found as many of their core friends on there as they could in case twitter became unusable for them or cracked down or whatever under 🍉's capricious rule.
You might want to consider doing the same tbh. It doesn't have to be mastodon, that is just brought up a lot because it is a twitter clone so it might be appealing in terms of similar features, enabling similar browsing habits, etc. but one way or another you should try to establish that network of people on alternative platforms, whether its mastodon or hexbear or email or discord or matrix or IRL, whatever, just so you don't lose touch with all your friends the next time elon causes a meltdown at twitter.
reply guys like myself still get lots of engagement on twitter (until presumably today), it's crickets for me on mastodon.
It's been spiralling for a while but most of the changes were pretty minor. Now you straight up can't use the site lol