I’ve been putting it off leaving The Other Place for a long time because I was afraid nothing else could provide the things I actually liked about it. But the election results made me wander over to check it out. I’m home!
I thought Trump would lose and he would have to sell the site and real Twitter would come back. Lost all that hope when Trump won and knew it was downhill from there.
I was blocking left and right and I was tired of seeing hatefulness. Also it glitched every night around 9 CST. Couldn't even use the thing when I had actual free time.
Left Twitter long before most of you did. I could not handle Elon. Since then I've been floating out in a black hole til I found a blue butterfly out there. 💙
Trump ads, rage baiting for engagement, the algorithm pushing paid accounts which usually consisted of ignorant trumpers or random bot accounts & most importantly, the racist owner
I honestly came across it randomly on the Play Store. Deleted FB and Instagram after the election and was just browsing to see if there's anything else that'd spark my interest. Never heard about bluesky until yesterday.
I needed a change of scenery. I got sick and tired of the right wing ads they forced you to see and the Trump bs, which hit eleven during the Election.
Fights with trump trolls. Not interested in swaying them now. They made their choice to learn the hard way. So TOXIC, tired of getting SOOO ANGRY. Buddha says that anger only hurts you, but he never met Trump and his cult followers.
I was already on the fence for a bunch of things. But the block change and more importantly, the fact that that man got a position in that administration after all the stuff he was doing…whew.
I've had an account for a while now, but the election results & how that impacted my Twitter feed are what drove me to cut my losses. I'd been growing tired of it, but tolerated it until that point because of the various communities on the app.
Ngl, it was his involvement in the Trump campaign, the possibility he might have a cabinet post and the gloating. Just unduly influence the election and shut up about it!
When I heard Jack was chased off here. He wanted that same townsquare bullshit Musty talked about. I started my move but it was rough trying to build the feed here.
The way Musk quite literally turned it into a big ass Trumper, right wing ad/site. As much as I loved it's original form it's been on the downtrend so hopefully this can replace it
When I kept seeing account that I blocked replies anyway. Then when I go to block their vile/annoying asses again, I see I’ve already blocked them. Plus I’m over the butthole who owns it pushing a million right wing ads in every post. The trolls can have it, I locked down my acct and deleted the app
AI training on my posts. Nope. If AI wants to train, it can go to college for four years, enduring both brilliant and stultifying lectures, then go into debt for grad school for another three years.
I can't charge my phone and look at Twitter at the same time. Some glitch with the site. Plus i can block all the OTHERS and I don't have to see their 💩
Not one straw, just a bunch of things. Place is full of bots and way too many right wing scum bags. Lots of negativity. Then you have so many people engagement farming to get paid. People tweet trash to rile people up for those Elmo bucks. Eventually you just get sick of.
Right? I had a whole, wholesome conversation on my timeline here this morning without any right wings shoved in my face and no trolls jumping in. It was so… normal and nice
Despite my chosen following and blocking over 400k profiles, I was inundated by the most disgusting tweets from racists, misogynists, including the owner of the site. The ignorance that dominated. The final push was the election that celebrated it all winning control of the government.
The continuous ads, the election results seemed to increase the vile remarks in the comments, and not wanting to promote a platform linked to the next stages of whatever happens next.
I left Twitter 3 years ago. I got sick of Threads removing posts for random keywords taken out of context but leaving the most horrific racist crap up forever even after reporting. Just hoping this place can be fun. I miss fun.
Maga cult, Elon ugly ass fuckin up my algorithm no matter how many times I say I’m not interested on top of the conservative ads, the barbs, drake fans, seeing people talk about Skai back to back down my tl & I don’t care about her (algorithm is terribleee🙄)
My phone finally bypassed my turning auto updates off (after more than a year) and turned my Twitter app into X. So I made it into the ex Musky wants it to be.
Was putting up with being drowned in bots, propaganda, and ads…thinking I can still use it as a search function for news/specific references…and also to get some laughs in.
But these past few weeks, seeing the group chat spit out certain points made it clearer I’m just helping fuel the engagement.
Joyce Vance is here and so are George Conway and Molly Jong-Fast. Also found Glenn Kirschner and the Meidas gang, Chris Hayes, Katie Phang and Mueller She Wrote. Who needs X?
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The racist ceo idiot deciding basically to remove blocks.
Too many bots.
Too many ads.
Paying for checkmarks on a free app.
Me or Xbox
Me or PS5
P u s s y in bio
White people pretending to be Black.
And i don't want nothing to do with Elon
I need my peace.
I'm never going back there.
I couldn’t block MAGA ads unless I became a premium subscriber.
Oh, and that dirtbag Musk and his bot army.
Also, it just felt really icky.
But these past few weeks, seeing the group chat spit out certain points made it clearer I’m just helping fuel the engagement.
2) tw*tter been full of shit and was turning into tr*th s*cial part two