I’ve been on Twitter since 2010, and after so much chaos over the years and losing control of what one sees in their feed, Mastodon is a total breath of fresh air. No ads, seeing exactly who I subscribed to and their posts. Thanks for being here!!
It's Twitter. When Musk released the horde, i felt a lot of things happen. Activity went up, and i actually had a few meaningful discussions. But what also happened was the amount of people turning to ad hominem and researching your wall, nickname etc. in order to find personal stuff to "take you down" with. There was a storm at the start and it's calmer now, but i'm more sure that i will leave. Trying to weane myself off gradually. Have a nice day Sir!
They can pay their $8. For each of their bots. I've had it with the kingdom of "Elongated Muskrat". This time I'm sticking around here. And posting my pictures at Pixelfed while I'm at it.
Probably about as well as the so-called "wolf warriors" who kept trolling my anti-China tweets with whataboutisms. I don't know. I scheduled my Twits & Turds account for deletion.
Someone assured me that Lone Skum really had made excellent progress cleaning up the bots, which confused me, as I’ve been followed by two in the past few days, after going mostly inactive? That was not a problem I had before. They can stay and enjoy very intermittent reposts of Japanese landscape photography I suppose? At least that doesn’t anger or depress me, except for wondering if they know what’s happening to the site, and being sad that I may not see their work at all for much longer.
I just think it's weird how many people are treating him like some sort of religious figure. The mixture of politics and religion has gotten really weird.
They don’t seem to understand there’s Twitter Blue vs Twitter Verified, Blue is the subscription, Verified just means you’re a notable public figure and it says it is free online. Or they claim you’re broke because you won’t pay the $8. And if your tweet goes viral, you just don’t have time to read all their replies or Twitter blocks them out for whatever reason.
The hero warship of Musk there is evident. Musk has gotten worse. He posted a pic of stay woke shirts he found in an overseas twitter closet with several laugh emoticons. You can guess the MAGA responses… Now I’m here.
The good news is, now that we're here on Mastodon, we don't even have to give Twitter a second thought! Let it go the way of MySpace or better yet, Friendster. I'm still trying to get over the loss of Orkut! (Kidding.)
I’m going to submit this, having nothing of value to contribute to society in general, is quickly becoming the greatest deterrent. Without safety in numbers, it’s just not working out either for them or for musk.
People don't realize their own power. People can bring down companies. This is relevant because there are some people still working at #twitter in a #toxic environment most likely because they are afraid to leave. These are talented people, but scared. They don't realize their own power, their talent, and don't realize that they can create their own #twitter. Hustle is not #innovation
rEpublicans are in charge of moderating twitter so libs & dems are not welcome anymore. I was banned twice in just over 24 hours 12 hours, then one post and another 12 hour ban!!
I just heard the news that Musk circulated a poll inquiring as to whether or not suspended accounts should be reinstated. The results: yes. Gonna happen next week. Sounds like he's desperate to offset the mass exodus and I don't think that move is gonna make a dent in it. But if I'm going to be one of those accounts, I have an image for my first post-suspension post:
I got a ban for saying Trump Jr will give himself a heart attack with all the raging. Moderators said it threatened violence. Seriously he needs to chill out.
Really glad you made it here, Mr. Takei! 💙