My mental health got so much better when I deleted my Twitter account. I know not everyone can because some people make their livelihood there, but I recommend it for anyone that can.
I'm making plans to fully leave that awful site for good next week, especially considering how a certain SOMEBODY has messed up the block function there!
But seriously, it's been getting worse since he took over, and I think what's left should have moved on a long time ago to greener pastures
I honestly just blocked everyone that just wanted to ragebait and didn't engage ;;
Here I'm trying to bend the algorithm into not showing me that stuff
Having access to everyone's every bad thought all the time was a mistake
Must feel empty there, after it got banned here I was thinking maybe I would miss it but I really don't. I even unsinstalled the app and don't intend to go back ever.
ive always done my best to block jerks and anger engagement bait, but no matter what it was like a hame of wack a mole. one goes down, two more come up. it was miserable
Literally I follow 99% Artists and Adult Creators so I can support and interact with them
X: Here have ads for Ted Cruz, Bibles and weird Diet Supplements that haven't been tested and 100 posts from people you don't follow, oh you don't want that? Here, have more unhinged stuff to see
I'm pretty sure the only reason I find Twitter even remotely usable is an add-on that forces the home timeline off so I only see people I follow and really aggressive blocking, it's dire rn
Twitter feed seems to be mostly either anger engagement and bots talking to each other these days. And occasionally, there is news of Musk thinking of some new stupid idea that will ruin the cursed thing even further.
My own feed is still somehow mostly art on there, but that's probably only because I block the majority of blue check accounts on sight unless I can clearly see it's not a yet another bot.
You can change that. Follow people, find feeds you like, set your following feed to include occasional posts from other feeds you use, or set the discover feed as your default.
Yeah getting engagement is as simple as being nice and following people, maybe liking and reposting stuff a lot. Things are much more chill on this site!!!!!!
You're following 4 people. You need to follow a LOT more to get a lot of activity on your following tab.
Additionally, there are algo feeds, you can find them using the "Discover" feed or by clicking on the feed tab. This will show you a LOT of different feeds with algos.
It only feels "dead" because you're not putting in any actual work and expecting an algorithm (Which your following feed doesn't have) to spoonfeed you content.
And 98% porn and OnlyFans links, to the point where even porn connoisseurs like me are getting turned off. Thots, bimbos, sluts, bitches, broads, etc. are not a dime a dozen; they’re a penny a billion. Sad times we live in.
I had to get a new phone back in March, and I decided to just not download it again. I haven't been this terribly out of the loop since before I started using Twitter (6 or 7 years ago?) and it feels so....well, not quite good, but I'm not constantly losing faith in humanity.
It really changed drastically… Wherever you went, there would be people being openly aggressive and a lot of stuff in regards to the new ownership would be pushed through the algorithm even if you wanted it or not. The calm before the storm finally came to pass there.
So much anger about everything. I deleted my account when I heard the musk/orange menace interview. I knew the OM was a troll but musk is almost as bad if not worse. I couldn't justify staying there, so here I am.
the only thing i use twitter for is my XIV account that I make sure to curate so there's no nasty shit, and only on browser with ad block and plugins to make it function. What a bunch of hoops I have to go through...
Every day there's a new weird fascist discourse and a new sexist discourse.
One day it's brain sizes/IQ and whether men are capable of love. The next day it's snuff films of drivers killing bikers and asking if women have worth beyond doing chores.
Hang in there, Temmie! Art finds ways to survive, and if we don't give up on it it will again. Thanks for your hard work as well, your art is always a shining lighthouse on dark stormy seas!
My mental health has improved noticeably since I left the hellsite months ago.
As a hobbyist artist I'm still small here but my experience here is still more positive than ever was in Xcrement (plus I don't have to worry about attracting bigots and trolls with my art).
The algorithm is fed by interactions so interaction bait tends to get pushed over art. I wish people would just move over here but I know a fresh start is a hard sell for many.
yeah i deleted my twitter back when they said that everything posted was going to be used to train a/i. i have heard nothing good about it since then :/
some of my fav artists on twt have an account here but they stopped posting........ hope they give this site another chance considering there's a lot more people now
this is actually a problem with twitter's design. since the algorithmic feed promotes tweets based on engagement, and angry replies contribute to what the algorithm sees as "engagement", twitter's algorithm tends to favour rage bait tweets because the engagement statistics on them tend to be higher.
a LOT of anger engagement, rage baiting, and calling out bad people who may or may not be actually bad. A lot of negativity being bred just in general.
I left Twitter on the Monday after he bought it. I was just a pea in a mass exodus of infosec and IT people who left that weekend. I haven't been back. I haven't missed it at all, which is strange, because I'm thrilled that Blue Sky exists.
yeah, twitter feels even more miserable to go through
i think it has to do with us now having a different platform to realize just how bad twitter has gotten overtime, even more than we thought we realized
even though my tl was majority art, the site worked extremely well with how i interact at making me look into excess ragebait and arguments. same here except the arguments are actually constructive and not for money
The only reason I even glance back there is because of the few pictures that are there. Not every artist I follow has made the jump, but hopefully more do, but I understand why they haven't considering...
It was some time last year whenever they were talking about it before the EU laws shut it down. People say that blocking was never actually removed but I still got DMed by an account that was already blocked right around that time
I deleted my main twitter all the way back in 2021 and I thought it was bad then. Made an account out of curiosity a few weeks back and I didn’t last 30 minutes on it. It’s just pure misguided and violent hysteria on there now.
You tweet anything and you get some
not or engagement farmer spewing a tweet that combines every slur against every ethnic group, gender or orientation possible.
seems like that's been the consensus for a lot of people that have transferred over here
I'm someone who keeps my timeline immaculate, so if I did not consent to seeing something I remove or block it, but now you get the rancid stuff floating to the top because of blue check marks
And it's gotten much worse because now because that toxic activity is what makes the engagement profitable, so now everyone's doing stuff to get people to engage with them OR people who dont care about blocking or ignoring stuff putting a spotlight on them
I still like Threads more but I'm learning the ropes on Bluesky.
God I hope X dies a horrible death and we get Twitter back but with the plan to merge it into Bluesky as originally intended AND federate it into the ActivityPub protocol
If the drawings are disturbing like the ones I see here, I hope they don't show up. The only reason I won't stay here it's because of the sick "artists" drawing characters with kid's apearence sexualizing, or the f'n furries. Disgusting.
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But seriously, it's been getting worse since he took over, and I think what's left should have moved on a long time ago to greener pastures
is so much nicer here~
Here I'm trying to bend the algorithm into not showing me that stuff
Having access to everyone's every bad thought all the time was a mistake
It's not guaranteed to work, but it sure help
X: Here have ads for Ted Cruz, Bibles and weird Diet Supplements that haven't been tested and 100 posts from people you don't follow, oh you don't want that? Here, have more unhinged stuff to see
😔
You're following 4 people. You need to follow a LOT more to get a lot of activity on your following tab.
Additionally, there are algo feeds, you can find them using the "Discover" feed or by clicking on the feed tab. This will show you a LOT of different feeds with algos.
It's not how it works here.
Anger means engagement :-(
The site collapsed way too much so I just quit it.
One day it's brain sizes/IQ and whether men are capable of love. The next day it's snuff films of drivers killing bikers and asking if women have worth beyond doing chores.
It has truly gotten disgusting over there.
As a hobbyist artist I'm still small here but my experience here is still more positive than ever was in Xcrement (plus I don't have to worry about attracting bigots and trolls with my art).
More than grateful I moved here since my birthday last year
Too many people on Twitter fall for every single ragebait possible, and it makes the experience horrible
i think it has to do with us now having a different platform to realize just how bad twitter has gotten overtime, even more than we thought we realized
this place is much quieter.
this place is chill, feels like the start of something new, something better.
Especially now post-Brazil purge
not or engagement farmer spewing a tweet that combines every slur against every ethnic group, gender or orientation possible.
I'm someone who keeps my timeline immaculate, so if I did not consent to seeing something I remove or block it, but now you get the rancid stuff floating to the top because of blue check marks
it's just really bad now
Plus the blocks are SUPER effective tools and completely nuclear.
So over time it kind of ends up as a new start, but with the groundwork and attitude of experience
God I hope X dies a horrible death and we get Twitter back but with the plan to merge it into Bluesky as originally intended AND federate it into the ActivityPub protocol
Also I didn't know you were on here!!!! Nice!!!!!