I nuked my account just an hour ago, after nearly 18 years.
My suggestion to everyone is to make sure you download your data and posts before you obliterate it, and find a way to delete all the posts before you do. You don't want to give Sissy Space X more bot fodder to eat than you already have.
I go there less and less and I see the toxicity more and more. I'm de-activating my account as I don't believe yelling at each other is doing us any good.
Exactly
I just peeped at a certain Canadian Chud's X and saw a reply he received over here.
Did an automatic block here...Zero reason to reply and if anyone replies using the abuse we left behind...I don't care how Progressive you might be it's a Block from me
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I like to poke my head in occasionally just to see the man in charge have one of his many melt downs every now and again, then I slink away quietly back to my happy place. 🦋
most of your base is still on twitter tho, no? if you moved here entirely wouldn’t you lose a lot of engagement and followers. sometimes it’s good to have a big platform to get ur message out
Exit plan is more rapid than expected as pick up here accelerates. Organizations I like to follow are slow to change but they will eventually figure out that randy hate spewing folks left in their feed are not interested in their stuff.
There are still some music and soccer accounts I follow. That part of Twitter isn’t particularly toxic. If they move here, I’ll likely close down my Twitter.
I deactivated there a few days ago.
I gave up. The RWers on that site don't want legitimate discussion or debate. They just want to yell, belittle, hate, and attack. They want to tell lies & threaten others without consequence. And Elmo lets them. It isn't worth the abuse.
So long as giveaways and contests are on there and a few friends I will check in. I will be Dual posting anyway as I am Primarily on Mastodon (there is some serious head scratching going on over there) and I am on Bluesky to follow friends that fled over here.
Slow burn, still have friends on the forgotten realm. Just waiting for them to ditch and join. Also, there are a couple key accounts I still follow that have yet to jump over as well. Soon though, very soon!!
It's better here. . . But Im sticking around over there just a bit longer while a new fan live-tweets their Doctor Who first-watch experience. It's the most joyful thing I've seen online in forever, not ready to give it up :)
Because I don't want someone to use my username, I've been going on every couple days, and posting (usually reposting) something to keep the account "active". But I've mostly stopped looking at anything there & am using BlueSky almost exclusively.
I thought I'd stay until the end of the month but it's so annoying going back. I deactivated last week, reactivated briefly today to get some bookmarked items posted here, then deactivated it again. I find it too draining to be on both.
I have locked my account but still check in. It’s like the train wreck that you just can’t turn away from. You know it’s going to blow & you don’t want to miss it.
It's only taken a couple of days to lose total interest in checking Twitter (as soon a great migration of Experts I'd followed happened).
I'll check on occasion until I can't remember when, don't bother. Doesn't have to be a decision - no doors need slamming so anyone knows!
I’ve locked my Twitter account to ensure no shenanigans and am only posting here. I’ll eventually delete my Twitter account.
One interesting thing I noticed when I went over there to lock. My notifications were filled with those purple 4 star thingys to increase my engagement. Twitter is thirsty 😂
Don't, close your Twitter account, I did, if you don't like a platform don't give them content the more creators that shun it the less reason people will have to use it or just leave it idle with a pinned message referring people to here
Bye Bye X! Hello Bluesky! Finding my Alberta and Canadian faves which I feared of losing for my truths. Blocking some bcuz no doubt Elon sniffing around
Lurk over there to watch the final embers burn themselves out and lament all the time I lost arguing with idiots while enjoying my time and giant block list over here.
I finally deactivated today. I tried doing the sky follower bridge a couple times to find as many people I wanted to follow over here, but it was feeling too grim to keep opening that damn app, it was time to finally go.
Just switched to Bluesky today. Sick of Elon and his tactics on X. Only following those on X who haven’t switched over yet. Prefer this site for what it’s worth.
I’m slowly phasing out Twitter. It’s become so toxic and full of bots, makes it impossible to trust anything on that platform. Not that I am advocating trusting anything on social media to begin with, you need to alway do your own research.
I pop in several times a day, sh*t post , like & repost stuff I like, Post about elmo's & don the con's lies & leave
It's fun for now & I'll do it until I'm bored as there is no reasoning with magats so no sense using any facts to fight them
Deactivated X. It’s unfortunate what it became but I have now realized how right wing content was so fed to us by algorithms. Every time I refreshed my X acct I got PP or Con postings first. Here I never see PP’s acct in fact I forgot I followed him. Refreshing to interact without being manipulated.
I get better interactions over here but Twitters saving grace is the numbers. I had a post go viral recently but it might be just a matter of time until this place reaches critical mass.
At the rate @bsky.app keeps adding new people it might take on Twitter in a few months.
I’ve just moved over here. The usual I have other people I follow on Twitter, who are not on blue sky. So inevitably, I will still go back there to look. However, I will enjoy less of a dumpster fire over here I hope.
I nuked my account yesterday and it really does feel much more healthy inside my head today. Coincidence? I like to think not. The FOMO isn't as bad as I thought. Probably because this place is so hoppin'!
There will come a time when I stick my head up and look out from the trench, over the barbed wire, and see it's just us holdouts echoing each other in the face of the enemy. That point seems to be rapidly approaching. When it arrives for me, I'll be done there. Not quite there yet...
Staying in both for now, but really playing it by ear. Only been here for few days, so I want to see how things go, and what I can sensibly sustain (there is a real life outside all this after all!! 😉).
I’ve deleted accounts on X that I follow here. There are some that I still want to follow, hopefully they’ll migrate soon. Probably delete x by end of year
I have some people just on Twitter still so I’m keeping it to keep posted with that but I really like Bluesky… it’s giving me pre-Elon Twitter vibes and I’m here for it
fully moved from twitter to bluesky at this point. the negativity coupled with elons influence (and myself not wanting to support a company of his) convinced me to make the switch. the more I use bluesky the more I'm liking the algorithm here
Many in #DisabilityTwitter don't have the spoons to migrate and I have friends in the community.
Many of them hold Spaces to share knowledge, sorrows, and joys and to keep the doldrums of isolation at bay.
As a Pro Wrestling fan there are a few of my favorite podcasters still over there, like Jim Cornett and author Brian R Solomon, once they have made the move over here I'm closing my account on X. Don't laugh I know Pro Wrestling is predetermined but it's still more real than most politicians 😜
I scrubbed content and locked my Twitter content. Will keep the shell so no one can poach my name (apparently they can after 30 days). I still follow an Ukraine cohort and other internationals who haven’t switched so I ghost every few days to catch up. Once politicians switch it will be easier.
I found a thing called openvibe where you can auto dual post. Thought about using that but also just tending to use this more. There are only like 2 people I am visiting X for now. Once they hop over I will be done with it.
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My suggestion to everyone is to make sure you download your data and posts before you obliterate it, and find a way to delete all the posts before you do. You don't want to give Sissy Space X more bot fodder to eat than you already have.
Need to keep calling out my useless local MP and he isn’t on here.
I just peeped at a certain Canadian Chud's X and saw a reply he received over here.
Did an automatic block here...Zero reason to reply and if anyone replies using the abuse we left behind...I don't care how Progressive you might be it's a Block from me
😔
Let it become the Truth Social it wants to be.
I gave up. The RWers on that site don't want legitimate discussion or debate. They just want to yell, belittle, hate, and attack. They want to tell lies & threaten others without consequence. And Elmo lets them. It isn't worth the abuse.
But, I make 1 post to X ev day: “Blue5ky has block lists where u can defeat MAGA trolls with one click”
I'll check on occasion until I can't remember when, don't bother. Doesn't have to be a decision - no doors need slamming so anyone knows!
One interesting thing I noticed when I went over there to lock. My notifications were filled with those purple 4 star thingys to increase my engagement. Twitter is thirsty 😂
It's fun for now & I'll do it until I'm bored as there is no reasoning with magats so no sense using any facts to fight them
At the rate @bsky.app keeps adding new people it might take on Twitter in a few months.
Many in #DisabilityTwitter don't have the spoons to migrate and I have friends in the community.
Many of them hold Spaces to share knowledge, sorrows, and joys and to keep the doldrums of isolation at bay.
I spend way more time here
Old habits die hard
No nazis, no problems.