Am still posting to X for work purposes but am spending zero time there otherwise. Quite something how a website I joined in 2007 and spent huge amounts of time on ever since, became basically unusable overnight
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Not only is it unusable, but since leaving it I find myself less anxious and no longer aggravated by some of the utter (and downright nasty) nonsense being written there.
X is a cesspit now, but I think users are also averse to leaving it completely as some followers may not have moved to Bluesky. Understandably they don't want to lose all contact and interaction with them. Hopefully, a brief transition. More individual efforts focused on persuading them to move?
I agree. Was there from 2008 up until 2 weeks ago. I deleted everything and it’s empty now. I didn’t completely delete it as someone could take over my name and pretend it’s me. But it’s a hollowed out version of what it was.
Unfortunately until everyone stops using X 'for work purposes', then X is doing fine.
Until X is a internet ghost town with Russian botfarm accounts screeching their hatred into deserted electronic streets ... X can continue to do what Musk was funded to buy it to do.
Twitter had achieved 'critical mass', too many are invested in it, so it's not going anywhere - the money the funded 'Musks' purchase of it knows this.
Its name and logo change to 'a white cross on a black background' really does say it all.
I stopped logging in a couple of months ago and switched to bluesky acouple of weeks ago and have now closed my X account completely. Love not having NetvZero watch and right wing press making me cross 😉
At some point I think
You should ‘rip off the plaster’ and close that account and just be here. I think it’s a thankless task and not so purposeful use of time and energy posting on the other site any more. 😊
Forgot which site I was on a few minutes ago and clicked on a post about US health insurance. Was looking at the comments thinking ‘why is everyone being like thi… ohhhhh!’
Here in US, I stayed on up to presidential election day, fighting hard, posting and reposting for democracy and against Trump/Putin. Despondent for 3 days after the vote. Dropped X, and love Bluesky. Fighting again
Whenever I get links from a friend who loves everything about X and Elmo and I open it, I feel like I am stepping into a pool of hot manure while getting hosed in the face by liquid made from the Carolina Reaper pepper.
Hmmm... overnight when exactly. Musk took it over what? two, three years ago? And I would argue it didn't fully become the cesspool it is now until maybe a year later. Its death knell sounded when he invited 45 back which admittedly was within a few weeks of the takeover.
Aside from the obviously horrible parts of the current iteration of X, the main thing I notice now is just how naff it all seems. Feels icky even just briefly logging into it
Thing I noticed more when having to pop back, also for work, is the overall tone. Most posts are designed to illicit an emotional response on a major issue. Here far less of that. Just looks desperate now.
I left months ago when it was still Twitter and before Musk destroyed it. Hopefully more people who feel the same way, will deactivate accounts and leave. Bluesky is a healthier place.
It didn't become unusable overnight for me, but got to the point where I was looking at a horror show that the owner actually wanted.
That was during & after the #FarageRiots
How much more crap was I willing to take there.
And the answer was none. None more crap.
When you have to spend more time blocking than engaging, when factual research is met with crying emojis and insults, when you’re basically wading through Trump/Musk-madness, conspiracy theories and Tory MPs posting bitter Express-style nonsense, safe to say, it’s lost its charm. And usefulness.
Logging into X brings a sense of foreboding that your device will unintentionally become infected with something dreadful. It's the online equivalent of entering a nightclub's toilets at 2am on a Saturday night.
I noticed that yesterday, as I’m in Scotland you’d expect most of the contributors to be at the very least left of centre. Now, most comments are RW verging on outright Fascism!
What is most annoying is the prominence of the blue tick accounts and how they get priority even though the information is full of made up meaningless nonsense with a few expletives thrown in
I still go on it a bit. There’s things about Bluesky that aren’t great yet. Like opening a link takes you out of the app and once you’ve finished reading the article you have to reopen BS. And tagging people doesn’t seem to work that easily.
I did that for awhile also, but I hardly ever check back there anymore. And I am a mentally healthier person for it. If one of the slimeballs shows up here, I block right away 😌
Football and other sport's clubs need to get on here. I still have to go to the other place for scores and news, especially for teams lower down the pyramid.
After steady growth in followers over a number of years on twitter I lost 150 in three weeks. I too have joined bluesky but unlike them have not closed my X account. Old habits eh.
I used to get angry with all the facists posting on there but now I've got this place, I don't get wound up anymore. I jump in, take the piss out of them and jump out again.
I so agree! I go straight to Bluesky now which is a lovely way to start the day and then hold my nose for a Quick Look at ‘it’. I will be coming off it soon. It’s just awful.
After the vile slander vs LD & myself as LD PPC in my campaign vs Suella at GE24, am immune to RW missiles….so go back on X every now and again to try & speak some ‘truth’!
I tried and tried for many months. It just seemed as if more and more wretched people were getting along well over there. Had to leave after Trump voted in. Better for mental health 💚
It is a dilemma: on one level, nothing we say or any evidence-based information will sway Reform voters. 4.3M of them, more than LD’s votes. Yet, as more wealthy interests flood money into the RW, how many more people will they convert with their ‘scape-goating’ populism?
As more Elon Musk/Nigel Farage/ Suella Braverman et al voices become ever louder on X, the levels of dis& misinformation is insane. Reform aka RW populism is a real danger to our democracy- truth is just irrelevant as they spin 1930’s style narratives, backed by DM, Telegraph, GB News_worrying times
100% the voices are loud because right wing non dom billionaires own the MSM who constantly feed divisive lies & racist rhetoric which "delivered" Brexit. Ever since Johnson's era, BBC has become unhinged and needs a Tory clear out; Davie, Gibb, Bruce, Kuenssberg, Mason +others. 🙏 Stop gaslighting
Have you considered posting a daily/weekly message on your X account outlining a future date where you will no longer post on X? Perhaps close your account like many others have done?
I’ve removed x from my home screen but when I went to the App Store to open it there was an “upgrade”, and I thought just no, and now that’s it. No more. (I had planned to wind up some faragist with the new Led by Donkeys)
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That's a choice.
Why keep going?
It also makes me angry.
I go back only to sign petitions and to support hunt saboteurs.
Otherwise, it feels dead.
Until X is a internet ghost town with Russian botfarm accounts screeching their hatred into deserted electronic streets ... X can continue to do what Musk was funded to buy it to do.
It's not a criticism, just an observation.
Twitter had achieved 'critical mass', too many are invested in it, so it's not going anywhere - the money the funded 'Musks' purchase of it knows this.
Its name and logo change to 'a white cross on a black background' really does say it all.
These people need to check their priorities/scruples.
You should ‘rip off the plaster’ and close that account and just be here. I think it’s a thankless task and not so purposeful use of time and energy posting on the other site any more. 😊
It's a great way to spot them.
Never fails.
That was during & after the #FarageRiots
How much more crap was I willing to take there.
And the answer was none. None more crap.
Missing her not.
But yeah - being advertised Cake Wallet and Strike Wild* for no apparent reason just feels, as you say, naff.
*just went on, 1st 2 ads I saw, no clue what they are.
It definitely is icky and the ads are awful now, like wading through a sewer.