Content is title. What made you determined to leave Twitter, and what alternative are you using?
Too many trolls making it nearly impossible to have a reasonable discussion or debate on pretty much any topic. And the lack of consistency in the application of the site’s rules.
Putting blue checks at the top ruined Twitter for me. Every trending tweet gets spammed with 😂 emojis, right-wing disinformation, and transphobic hate speech. I got tired of scrolling past them just to start seeing normal commenters. Lemmy and Mastodon are better because the average user isn’t a total fucking idiot with an agenda.
Honestly this is what made me leave in the end.
The average blue check is a fridge temp IQ troglodyte.
Twitter
web version is absolutely miserable so i just follow the people of interest through nitter
leave? barely used it.
Any recommendation? Twitter alternatives.
You could try putting a metal trash can over your head and letting the neighborhood kids hit it with a stick.
Just get neighborhood kids you trust! I rounded up a few randos because I couldn’t find my usual pack, and it started out fine, but a few of them decided it would be more fun to ignore the trash can and crack me in the nuts. I said I WANTED TO SIMULATE TWITTER! NOT REDDIT!!!
FireFish!
Mastodon. It’s not invite-only like Bluesky, it doesn’t track you like Threads and it’s federated like Lemmy (in fact, there’s some crossover in some instances).
Kbin straddles both Lemmy and Mastodon 🙂
You are comparing completely different things.
Kbin is fully a microblogging service.
No I’m not. Kbin is part of both networks.
How did you manege to leave that toxic sewer?
Quite easy, i never jumped in
Honestly, it was just too busy for me to keep up with. I’d check and there were 300 Tweets from all the people I was interested in since the last time I checked.
But when Musk bought it, I deleted my account.
Was on twitter because ‘it was hot’. I never discovered why, I found it even more annoying then open plan office spaces, lots of unwanted noice, no content. So I left and never looked for an alternative.
Since I left, never felt fomo, just yomo. Especialky with Musk taking over xitter I’m amazed not everybody went quitter.
I have not used a microblogging site for years, but I rediscovered it with Mastodon, which actually does have good content and isn’t so full of chatter that the good content gets overwhelmed. It helps that you can subscribe to hashtags. I follow #Archaeology and get amazing and fascinating links. I rarely post, but I scroll.
I barely used it and just deleted my account the second Elon was involved.
That’d be me as well. The last Twitter post I made was what, 2014? So it was an easy delete.
Abusive moderators who monopolize big communities.This is happening a little bit here too, but at least there is no monopoly and the power of the federation allows us to navigate everywhere.
I only use it for getting updates on public transport, but now apparently I made my account when I was under 13 and it’s now completely locked. Despite being over a decade older they won’t accept my ID to reopen and no way will I make another account.
Once it became clear they Elron was going to smash the place into a cesspool of douchery, the decision was simple.
how tf did my countries rail operator destroy twitter for you
Twitter for me was always just a place to shout random ramblings to void. It didn’t help that I barely followed at all what other users were saying. Always felt like I should, in fact, not just speak my mind, because in the recent years the site was really terrible at banning dipshits and the Musk takeover was a clear signal that things will never be getting better in that regard.
When Musk took over, the fact that the site started experiencing creaking at the seams when devs were laid off was a huuuuuuge red flag. My biggest IRL friend decided to leave Twitter after the Musk takeover. With nothing else to genuinely follow, I decided to GDPR-dump my past stuff and leave the site too.
I like Mastodon. It’s like Twitter and Identica back in early 2010s when you could actually see random strangers posting random shit. Can see fellow shouters-in-the-void. And they’re usually not dipshits.
I never did. I still don’t understand the appeal of shouting into the abyss and hoping someone hears the echo.
When Twitter cut off third party apps I switched to the Fediverse. Got a weird sense of deja vu a few months later.
i’ll let you know once i ‘leave’…
i actually would have to ‘join’ the site, first, though. and that ain’t gonna happen.
