I’m like who the fuck is Howie and then I looked a little closer at this pic and wow. What’s up my dude. What a classic pic. 😢. God I miss David so much, not a day goes by that I don’t feel that pain man.
Yup, def says a lot about what kind of algo they are running over there. This place has been pretty good for music and knicks convo. A huge plus is being able to customize and control your own feeds 🦋😊
Myself I deleted X app but not the account. It's sitting there, purged all posts (or a great part of them) and keeping the @handle just not to let other random folk to get it. And yes I feel lighter too.
There are still trolls, bots, and other "strangenesses" here; one must be aware of that. But there's also a lot more honest, good faith discourse and a helluva lot less fear and intimidation. Welcome.
It's easy to delete app but did you delete yourself off of Twitter completely. After you delete your data, etc. And delete app then you can't engage , even check it for 30 days ( and Never is goal)
I had a lot of friends there and accounts I liked to follow like Isaac Saul for one. I don’t know if he is here. But it’s a cesspool.
Also it takes years to build 25k followers and it’s daunting to think about building and maintaining ANOTHER social media account as a musician. But here we are.
If you think that feels good, let me tell you how I felt at day 30 after closing my Twitter account! Better than good for sure - ecstatic & a sense of satisfaction! (Once you close it, Twitter takes that long to take an account down. If you do not log back on for 30 days, only then is it gone)
Grab a soda out of the fridge. Put your feet up. Watching Duke beat up on Baylor. I’m sure there will be more winners and losers today. Cuss about the weather as you see fit.
Some people are just deleting the app on their phone. It never hurts to remind people to deactivate it. Knowing musky, his platform could go sideways and information could go anywhere.
Welcome. Don’t blame you. Me too. I just wish everybody on here would stop talking about Trump and Musk. That’s why I came here, to get away from it. 🤪
It’s a bit of effort but you can do this yourself!
1-Don’t use the discover feed
2-instead use following feed but…
3-setup moderation to mute the stuff you don’t want to see. This actually works very well here!
It’s not perfect but the strength of this place is the diy curation. GL!
There are some good feeds curated for us here too, there’s a Feeds tab in search results. To add them just “pin” them to your home / tabs. One of the best imo:
way to lead the way man. I'm surprised it's taking this long for many people to quit x. but then again my livelihood doesn't involve any aspect of self-promotion. so I try to be understanding that people have different reasons
Welcome! I've never even had Twitter, but hearing about how friendly and engaging the Bluesky patrons are (and so far proven) is what made me create this account.
I have basically no cortisol inducing moments on this app. If I go on meta right now I will within 2 minutes flood with cortisol from the comment sections being a misogynistic verbal slaughterfest.
I refused to let the Twitter app on my iPad update itself, but I deleted my account long ago. Haven’t tapped into it in ages, but it’s still the bird icon 🤷🏻♂️
Took a month or so to decompress from the metaverse but sooooo worth it. Lots of actionable info/resources/links here.
Also make sure you are at least checking out the Meidas podcast for timely accurate political reporting
I never had a twitter, so no X. I always lurked Reddit, but it has become a negativity wasteland. I found all the content I was enjoying was from Bluesky, so straight to the source.
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There are some weird bot accts over here, but then I just happily use the block feature.
One of us
One of us!
X is so toxic
X is a fire pit of hell
I felt like that after deleting Amazon and Facebook :-)
Felon
Also it takes years to build 25k followers and it’s daunting to think about building and maintaining ANOTHER social media account as a musician. But here we are.
Never forget they ruined it.
Why did you hang so long and what happened to make you do it?
God bless man
1-Don’t use the discover feed
2-instead use following feed but…
3-setup moderation to mute the stuff you don’t want to see. This actually works very well here!
It’s not perfect but the strength of this place is the diy curation. GL!
Been in “what fresh hell” mode for a couple weeks tho tbh
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4s55v3tsfph6whswxccpsia/feed/aaaixbb5liqbu
Deeeep breath...
You are going to love it here!
Here people are free
@bemorgenthaler.bsky.social is itching for some dates
Who want to support
Mr. Maralago Junkie
Can’t take care of any child
Call social workers in Florida
Signed, musician from 🇨🇦
https://bsky.app/profile/maxwolly.bsky.social/post/3lkhiczpnms2s
Process.
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Cool.
Also make sure you are at least checking out the Meidas podcast for timely accurate political reporting
It's better here 🦋
I thought I might miss it, but I don’t. Not even a little bit.