Part of me hopes this is the end of the social media age. I've been on twitter since the very beginning and lately it feels like it's a toxic cesspool on all sides.
I say this as a twitter addict and prolific poster over more than a decade.
I say this as a twitter addict and prolific poster over more than a decade.
Being bought by Musk ought to bring about an end to any such perception. It’s going to be a rich man’s plaything (nothing new there, billionaires used to buy newspapers instead!) and who knows if it’ll be a success or not, but it has no higher calling and we’re probably all better off for recognising it.
Now I exfiltrate the good stuff with Nitter RSS feeds, and that way I get the experience you say you like about Twitter.
The only sane way to use Twitter is through a 3rd-party client: no ads, none of that Notifications spam and other recommendations
We also still have billions addicted to the new digital crack / cocaine called TikTok. So this is far from 'the end' of social media.
In fact, it is the start of the increasing echo chambers and the ills of social media being used for disinformation campaigns.
Now you know how the old school Useneters feel. Welcome to Eternal September.
> I say this as a twitter addict and prolific poster over more than a decade.
It's possible Twitter(and Social media in general) is as not as toxic you feel. I spend more time on LinkedIn than other sites and I feel it's more toxic than others. SM sites do feel less toxic if you tune up your feed, mute people and spend a little less time on them.
Twitter underwent a change over the last ~4 years where it went from having its own, weird "extremely online" culture to being a battleground. You really can't avoid the mess unless you put in an extreme amount of effort.
Hoping they end up as footnote in history textbooks of a weird time when people worried about checkmarks and follower counts, and it all amounted to nothing.
99% of the stuff I see is interesting technical content