Personally I feel we should all give twitter the middle finger and not tolerate the direction it’s gone in, it’s only going to get worse. Having a huge audience on there means nothing if my posts are suppressed anyway
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I left Twitter long ago, when it first started to be harder as an artist to be there because the owner hating on artists, making things harder on purpose for us all, I barely did see my friends artwork, but surely i was invaded by ads and random awful crap I didn't want to see at all, yikes.
People kept saying ¨you will come back, everyone does¨ I keep seeing that comment even now.
I didn't go back, It was surely becoming a hellscape full of horrible people, there was nothing for me on that place anymore, now it's getting WAY WORSE, it's awful, twitter should be left to rot.
The fact so many people haven't, and still won't switch off of there even now is deeply concerning at this point honestly; why tolerate nazis? If that's not where you draw the line, then where is? I don't trust anyone who uses twitter as their main site anymore
Feel that "suppression" super hard rn. Even for someone with a small account I just see zero attention on anything that it feels like talking to a brick wall
I'm depressed about it because I've spent so much time curating my art account that has a good following, but no one ever interacts with me anymore! And I fucking hate Elon Musk for ruining what legitimately used to be a good place and being a fucking shithead nazi! I don't want to start over!
i can wholly relate to this, but i've come to learn nothing's forever. sticking to that place is just going to do more harm in the long run as popularity on there means it's even more likely the people you meet are nazis
The best thing that ever happened to me social media wise was Twitter permanently suspending my account over “inauthentic activities” bc they fucked up their own arkose challenge thing and it just wouldn’t verify. I haven’t been on there in months and I’m SO much happier, that site is a tar pit
Every time I log on it’s crawling with chuds who now feel emboldened as there’s almost nothing to be done to control the vitriol, hate speech, blatant dangerous misinformation and hatred to spread. I see peers harassed on innocuous posts for having “pronouns in bio” it’s become a complete cesspool
Only reason I'm still holding onto mine honestly is because I go back and check it with Skybridge every now and then since there are too many people that haven't moved over here for some reason. :/
The blocking function on Bsky RULES also. you can just batch block everyone who has "MAGA" in their bio or whatever you want. It has made the app unusable for people who just wanna come here to troll
id long since locked my spaces down then but ive finally just pulled the fucking trigger and deleted my main spaces there bc fuck this tire fire its not worth it
I long ago left twitter. Complete toxic cesspool. I know a lot of fandom drama and stuff is talked about on twitter but imma be real? It’s not worth it.
Stuck around for the Manul Cup voting. Currently said So Long and Thanks for all the Pika, and turned off notifications, will cancel the account entireky after a week for anyone who needs to find my new location from my profile.
It sucks because I've heard it's still a good platform for certain non Americans who don't see the shitty hate all day long, buuuut as an American I just can't support it.
it's genuinely a shame dropping the platform after using it for over a decade, but I have nearly 2k there and my posts are getting like... a dozen likes at best, the shadowbans are just that bad. I get more here with a fraction of the followers, AND I can *actually* see people I follow
deleted my accounts last year and haven’t looked back since. i hate that being part of social media in any capacity is damn near necessary to grow an audience as an artist but twitter of all places is just … not worth it. that’s a kind of audience that does no artist any good.
exactly. despite having around 200 fewer followers on here than i did on twitter, i get more engagement overall [mostly thanks to specified feeds, which is an awesome feature]
twitter's too toxic with no more use benefits for me to bother being there any longer
that place poisons folks and then they spend the rest of the time talking bout how much it poisons their life experience. It literally pays folks to be Horrible garbage People, suppresses what you wanna share with friends, and is full of bad faith everything.
Folks are really a little too okay for my comfort with staying on a platform with a nazi-saluting-transphobic shitstain owner just cuz they have a bit of an audience.
YUPPP, the fucking sieg hail and speaking at an ADF rally was the final straw, it's not even ambiguous at this point, dude is a nazi. I can't entirely blame folks for not wanting to leave but it's been brain poison even before musk, now it's just 1000x worse and feels like a joyless PvP zone to me
like sure it's where I have the most followers but even if my posts weren't getting suppressed it feels too much like an endorsement to use it, by being active on that site (esp as a 'big' creator) you give it value and revenue and I don't want a part in it
Honestly if enough "big users" just nuked* their accounts and left shitter would wither and die.
*if you're for some reason super uncomfortable with perma deletion but still want to wipe everything, make an alt, change name on main, retake name on alt and delete main.
I left Twitter back in November when the TOS change with the AI bullshit happened. I was never a big artist there, but I've been getting more eyes on my stuff here since day one than I have had on Twitter in years. And seeing more of others too! It's nice. And I love that I see less rage bait too.
At this point if you are still on twitter you are ok with nazis. I keep saying if you wonder what you would have done on Nazi germany, it’s what you are doing now
i left years ago and i do not regret it one bit. these problems have existed there even before the musk buyout, he just made those problems way worse.
the visibility isn't even worth it, the engagement there is mostly bots or trolls anyway.
I'm right there with you. My audience here can actually see my posts to interact with them, and I don't have a bunch of bigots in my comments...my only issue with Bsky right now is the Bots but I know that isn't their fault and they are working on it. Much happier here for sure
The only reason I still have my (locked) account is to be certain nobody takes my username and to keep an eye on a few people who haven't made the switch (fingers crossed everyday they will see Bluesky and jump in)
I left in November and I haven't looked back since. I somehow get less interaction there than I do here despite having way more of a "following" there.
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I didn't go back, It was surely becoming a hellscape full of horrible people, there was nothing for me on that place anymore, now it's getting WAY WORSE, it's awful, twitter should be left to rot.
it's an evil website owned by an evil man. no matter how well you curate your feed, inflammatory shit shows up.
Deactivated my account last November
I haven't looked back since. My Twitter accounts are locked and logged out for good.
twitter's too toxic with no more use benefits for me to bother being there any longer
*if you're for some reason super uncomfortable with perma deletion but still want to wipe everything, make an alt, change name on main, retake name on alt and delete main.
the visibility isn't even worth it, the engagement there is mostly bots or trolls anyway.