I love it here on BSKY but we don't talk enough about how it's kinda sad when you deactivate your twitter account, like I just did. All that work and fun and 💥 it's gone. Oh well.
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Agree. I was on Twitter since 2010 until day after the election & managed to come out with plenty of articulate and sometimes witty posts. Now I feel betrayed and drained with a feeling of what’s the use & avoid constant news. ☹️
I never had a Twitter account till about 2 months ago, when I posted my elon photoshopped penis. It got me kicked off fb for a whole month and I was curious to see how long good ole Leon would leave it up... still up.
I use both sites every day. I am enjoying the lighter and more positive feel of Bluesky. However, the #Scumbags that I keep track of are not allowed here. X is a MAGA cesspool, and if we want to deal with them, we have to wade in now and then.
It was fun and engaging at one time but, you must admit, it degenerated into a toxic, caustic, filthy forum. It's a bit like leaving what once was a loving, caring relationship that has morphed into a very unhealthy relationship. It's best just to move on.
Consider it "tuition" you need to pay for the next stage of your life. That other place might have been okay in its way, but it turned to dirt. It doesn't deserve us, and the rot still there deserves what they fling at each other.
The best advice I was ever given was my mother telling me that life changes and we always have to make a new normal. I’ve said a lot of goodbyes in my life. The last couple of years Twitter was just another one but with a lot of people.
There are way more things to worry and be sad about after 1/20. You’ll be glad you left. Probably should have a lot sooner. It was toxic more than a year ago.
To me it was kind of like finally moving out of the neighborhood where all the neighbors were crazy and doing things to constantly piss you off...plus having Elon as president of a Nazi style HOA. Good riddance!
If it’s any consolation, the most followers I had on Twitter was 880 after 2 years. I have 4400 after a couple weeks here. I see you have over 100K, so just imagine what you’re going to have soon - a chance to really influence the people who vote I hope.
I left it as soon as Musk put in a bid to buy it. I've not missed it at all, a lot of the good people I followed are here now. It's like cutting out a cancer.
Or seal a new random password in an envelope and put it somewhere inconvenient — filing drawer, safe, whatever. Just in case you need to go back and get something or completely delete the account.
Same here. I just posted my last post there and will deactivate the day before the Nazis take office. Musk went and is full on Nazi and it's horrifying.
I don't plan to deactivate my account, but I don't want to post any more, and have severely reduced how much I use it. My eyeballs are meeting with far fewer of their ads.
I also want to download my data archive but they won't let me do that even. It's an abusive relationship.
I get what you’re saying, but I have found that I am doing much better here in terms of engagement than I ever was there, and deactivating my Twitter account was the most therapeutic thing I’ve ever done.
Treat it like leaving a job. You don’t go back to your old desk and look at what’s in it. You move onto the next place where what you do is appreciated and loved rather than being derided to give some Russian bot pleasure.
It’s like Virtual Gentrification- we all jump onto a platform, make it cool and funky, and then the wealthy snobs show up, make the place unliveable, and we’re all forced to move somewhere else and start again!
I thought that originally.
Look at the quality of engagement, though. With the other platform, it was really just fomo that felt bad. And numbers.
But BlueSky has fewer boys (for now) and better engagement. Yes, lower numbers but many on Twitter were bots anyway. So 🤷♂️
I still haven't pulled the trigger yet. I get more followers here but less engagement. It's like everyone here just wants boosts but no content. Anyhow, at least I have a few like you who actually post content.
I was there for about 14 years or so and it was hard to let it go. However since I did, it really hasn't bothered me, however, you had a lot more followers and were more active there.
Yes it was sad to shut er down. I’m trying to focus on the positives. I had blocked more than 35000 accounts & was still getting negative comments every day. I’d read something Biden posted, for example, & half the comments were calling him a pedo or senile, etc. it was tiring. Glad to be here.
Sorry to hear that. Longtime follow here and there. Should you reactivate it, but not use it? I would hate to see someone take over your account and impersonate you.
I was shadow banned on Xitter so I left in a huff. Imagine my dismay once I learned no one was seeing my tweets for weeks. And I was suspended a week for using the word "redneck." No, I hate Xitter
Oh! I’ll talk about it! I left Twitter with over 1500 ff cold turkey when it was first announced that he was moving in to buy.
No. Regrets. Whatsoever.🌑
Let that racist apartheid pos be at the helm of my tweets? My free expression? Hell no!🌑
Not. Worth. It.
So congratulations to you🥂
Welcome. 💙🙏🏽🦋
I have a few friends who still mostly post on Twitter. Remarkably, when I check in over there, it’s mostly their posts I see, so I’ve avoided cancelling and just check in over there once a week or so.
Congratulations! 🎉 It is sad.. in the glory days of Twitter it was a great platform for meaningful conversation & the sharing of ideas. Unfortunately we are still too tribal to really use social media productively, & now a fascist owns it. I neither want, or have a place there. It's better here. 🐦
Good for you. I left too. I left because they said I had to. Something about violating their standards. I had a similar problem with threads and instagram. I didn’t last two hours on truth social. So much for freedom of speech.
Life goes on, this is all just ethereal commenting that desperately tries to be a book. Eventually we’re likely going to have to ditch all social media and just go back to website chats or phones
There were some people on there that I did not say goodbye to on Twitter and I regret that! I suddenly changed platforms on November 15 when someone posted that AI was going to take our data
I wasn't sad when I deleted my Twitter account. It hasn't been fun for me since Jan6. The 2024 election was the last straw. Bombarded with maga hate and lies and spent about 20 minutes every day blocking them. Facebook is next on my cancel list.
I had the same experience when I left Twitter after EM took over. I’m hoping I can find my keeps again after all these years. I have found some of them.
Oh, deactivating my account was a very happy and comforting thing. Removing myself from the toxicity that is the other place was soooooooooooooooo needed. Like a breath of fresh air.
They wrote all republicans off as lunatics as well, and people started to have enough of the gaslighting and the finger pointing, so they moved over to the right. People got TIRED of the left.
Because they’re so used to their bubble of the media. They were taught that it was impossible for Trump to win, and they wrote him off as a lunatic. When that proved to be false, it became hard for many of them to reconcile the reality of Trump’s incredible victory.
You’ll get your followers back . Your funny , intelligent and I still remember you acting like someone is pouring wine in your glass and your No,no no , then you take a big drink 😂
I also feel 😭 when i just have to leave Twitter and all my past post gone 💨. I ❤️the bird icon. Why X ... Looks like a virus when they suddenly change it. Scare the hell out of me. I thought for a moment my phone was hack😜
Not me, I was done with that before Eloon bought it, and was delighted to rid myself of it, once I heard he was seriously going to buy it.
I reactivated my suspended account, which had been frozen due to a false claim against me, JUST SO I could access my profile and delete my account. 🖕🏻
I decided to quit and closed my accounts right away, then started building on BSKY. (Not that I'm a big user, but still)
I think it's easier if you do a hard switch.
I signed in to Bluesky this past Saturday and the first thing I see is YOU. So reassuring for sure. I’m suspended again on Twitter and will spend no time trying to get back on. DONE.
On the contrary, it was a huge relief. A new lease of life. X was a place of pain and misery. It felt great giving Elon the big finger! I celebrated with a glass of wine.
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I have a dummy account just to check on right wing nut jobs fighting lmao
All it takes is a BSKY repost of the latest nonsense from Lord Elmo and you remember how good it is to get out of the toxic cesspool
Relief.
You know, Elon's a perfect Republican. Like Jan. 6, rioters, Republicans urinate and smear feces on everything.
Think of Xitter as a mental disease you won’t be happy keeping.
Besides, PTSD is all Xitter offers anymore.
But glad for BSKY.
Cè la tweet.
Pardon my French.
*C`est
Our absence to their drama is its own reward.
Speaking from experience, you eventually end up finding everyone each and every time. It's weird how it works, but it's true.
I’ve been torn as there’s still so many good and valuable people over there.
I love BSKY but we did see more information faster on twitter.
I also want to download my data archive but they won't let me do that even. It's an abusive relationship.
It is sad. I'm happy for the good times but I'm sad how it ended.
Endings are inevitable, but it doesn't make them less sad.
My mental health has soared 🦋. 👍🏽
Be aware there are many stages of grief. They are natural.
The worst will pass soon.
TwaX is a past best forgotten.
Just like TwiX. Except there, one tastes like nostalgia and the other like moldy free frozen fish.
(Or do you dislike TwiX bc/ it rhymes with your name? 😅)
Look at the quality of engagement, though. With the other platform, it was really just fomo that felt bad. And numbers.
But BlueSky has fewer boys (for now) and better engagement. Yes, lower numbers but many on Twitter were bots anyway. So 🤷♂️
So much of our lives and experiences are ephemeral, cant hang on to all of it
That's because I learned from the stories of Orpheus and Lot's Wife.
In with the new
But don't you worry
We got you boo!
No. Regrets. Whatsoever.🌑
Let that racist apartheid pos be at the helm of my tweets? My free expression? Hell no!🌑
Not. Worth. It.
So congratulations to you🥂
Welcome. 💙🙏🏽🦋
Glad you did it, sad for what’s gone.
This is for you .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74
BTW you were one of my top 5 favs over there...thanks for all the laughs 😀
I was sad when Witstream disappeared. All gradual erosion of a beloved old gal of a platform that is missed.
Good riddance.
Don’t look back..
I don’t care about followers or being an influencer.
That deactivate button was really easy to press.
Just relieved.
Got more moots here than there, and I just arrived
Shut down X and joined 🦋 about 2 months ago and already connected to around 1.4k followers 🥳
X and 🦋 are simply not the same.
Thankfully 😅
Deactivating my Twitter account was weird for a couple days and then I forgot about it.
My biggest issue, people don’t talk anymore.
Me: Why did you vote for Trump?
Them: Biden pardoned his son.
I just want to scream.
I reactivated my suspended account, which had been frozen due to a false claim against me, JUST SO I could access my profile and delete my account. 🖕🏻
I think it's easier if you do a hard switch.