Good afternoon Sir, I come to you with tears in my eyes (& I've never cried before, even when I was a baby) to say this morning I left the old-site-that-shall-not-be-named & moved to this pleasantly calm BlueSky.
The old bird app is a cesspool and decent folks are exhausted with what goes on there. I recently made the jump for good and am glad to see you on here.
With Elon soon in the Trump administration, twitter is largely over. It will just be right wing state media. Like an old house, the foundation is crumbling, the walls are full of termites - Time to go and rebuild somewhere else.
I just made an account because Hal Sparks brought it up on his Megaworldwide stream, and now I'm looking for all of my YouTube people (You're one of 'em). So, David, word seems to be getting out quick about this platform! Get ready for more followers
can't engage on twitter anymore for many reasons, but elon being trump's right-hand man made me make the move along with the russian interference accusations.
I didn’t even know about this app at all until I saw a post on another app this morning from @hcrichardson.bsky.social saying she was going to blue skies. Now I’m here. So far so good. And I followed you because I respect your take on things.
@davidpakman.bsky.social have you checked out Mark Thompson on YouTube - he is making interesting arguments about vote rigging by Republicans - worth listening to !
As I just replied to @briantylercohen.bsky.social , hopefully bsky is becoming the next, better, xitter. With guys like you and Brian around, maybe that'll be the case.
If by the end of next year, Twitter’s relevancy plummets, I will be sooo happy. But at the same time, I also fear that if it plots too far many of the people on there will come here. The same people that are the reason we came here to try to avoid…
depends! some of them may actually be worth engaging with, might be possible to have productive conversations here with less bots and engagement farming.
I looked for you. I am trying to find my peeps on this site and leave some current cesspools. Surrounding myself with a little bubble wrap for protection of spirit!
With "Twitter" turning into a cesspool of red and having a trillionaire owner buying the government, we need a place where we can have honest conversations without emotion lead outbursts or made up stories about neighbors eating pets.
I left twitter or now x, and I am encouraging others to do the same , hopefully we can create an alternate ecosystem. Mainly free of Nazi style propaganda and hate . It would be nice if we could generate steam here and counter the flood of misinformation from the right . The resistance begins now!
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Fuck Elon
Seems to be growing at a good pace as well.
You should consider using your domain as your handle, gives accounts an air of officialness lacking on twitter.
(But it’s GOOD!)