It's interesting to see how many people put "Twitter refugee" or something similar in their Bsky bios. Have people done that before when migrating to new platforms? I don't recall seeing "Friendster refugee" or "MySpace refugee" on newer platforms in the 00s.
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Twitter seemed like an ongoing battle in a war zone, unsafe in a stupid, random way.
There is a sense of refugees meeting up again in their new town after the war destroyed the other one. IIRC myspace never had any war zone drama to escape from.
So, no need to do that in BlueSky.
Anecdotally there's a very specific type of person that loves self-describing in this particular manner (derogatory)
In fact, I think it was Twitter where I saw it the most often.
Gave up on socmedia, then dragged here in Sept by old friends (and glad they did) so no longer relevant.
No, of course they won't - who am I kidding?
Losing it like this has been painful in ways I’ve certainly never experienced with any other website.
This has been different: the rapid collapse of an empire rather than the slow shuttering of an old mall.
https://butlershannon.medium.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-livejournal-69876a94062f
We didn’t leave these places - we were evicted.
A fan of Roald Dahl's "The Twits?"
It's more like they're comparing to being forced to leave an abusive living environment
Weird to see Apple and Google have just stood by and let X break all their app store policies and have done nothing. 🤔
Still lame and weird.
After a week you're no longer a refugee, you're a naturalized citizen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/nibdxf/freenode_refugee_unironically_try_gnulag/
We flee places that are hostile to us. If it's in meat space, our flight is a rejection of our country of birth. Here, online, our flight is from our primary social media space wherein we invested identity and created community. In both, we become refugees.
"If we can, we flee places that are hostile to us. If it's in meat space, our flight is a rejection of our country of birth, a hostile family, a community, or a town."
At the same time, people gradually left those three by their own volition. Twitter is more forcing people out.
Anti-immigrant 'twitter refugees' would be a very bad look IMO.
Whereas people are leaving Twitter to LEAVE TWITTER because they actively hate it there. They just wanted someplace better to go.
Indeed, I did reconnect there with some acquaintances from my pre-Blogospheric days. As I am doing on Bluesky.