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As I see it, it was "special" as long as "A" set of "species" had control. Now that they have lost control, they do their best to destroy it. This to me is a clear sign that they are unable to handle alternative narratives - a.k.a "My way or the highway".

I for one, plan to continue staying here to see how Twitter evolves. In fact, I had started migrating out of here while it had it's previous avatar/mind-set. So long as multiple perspectives (the real definition of being liberal to my mind) are welcome in a respectful setting, I'm good. I'd actually like to hear from both sides rather than be inside an echo chamber.

“Real definitions” are bullshit. I don't see anything wrong with semantic shift.

For me, as someone who tried to use Twitter but never got into it: I never could filter out the political, inflammatory, and inciteful side of Twitter. It was never useful for me in that way. I just never understood how to, if you could. Though I'd think it's difficult to, considering that's the whole business model.

you can create filter keyword lists to get most of the crap out of your feed.

exactly, filtering Trump, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, Zelensky, Elisabeth, Queen, etc. helps a lot with annoying popular topics I'm not interested to hear about from others at all

plus then there is megablock - find topic you have very clear opinion about and block everyone who likes completely crazy opinion to stop wasting time potentially reading tweets from people who like such opinion. does it create echo chamber? sure, but it's way healthier than wasting your own time getting angry about some crazies whatever side you are on

https://megablock.xyz

Switch from algorithmic to chronlogical feed (via the stars icon on the startpage of the app). Then, if you have your followings curated (which you likely already have anyway), you should not get much crap in your feed.

The root problem is that there is a troubled subset of our population who delight in smearing shit on the walls. We’ve all seen it in real life public toilets, in that literal fashion, but it also comes in the form of ratfucking, like Stone, and in QAnon-style promotion of crazy conspiracy theories, and in many variations in-between. They engage in acts of destruction against the public good; they are destroyers of peace, of reason, of society. Some are legit mentally ill, but other are very savvy and are doing it with deliberation. Social media has broadened their reach and increased the volume of their smear.

The root of the problem is not twitter.

I thought so too and yet I had to create a mastodon account because all the sudden some people moved I wanted to continue to follow. That didn’t happen at any point before.

Something _is_ different this time around.

This is why I'm leaving. Pretty much everyone I follow moved to Mastodon and the conversation in Twitter really deteriorated. I kept the account and I use https://moa.party/ to auto-tweet my Mastodon posts. But it's just more fun and informative on Mastodon at the moment.

You might be interested to know both Godot and Blender, projects and communities, have long running and active presences on the fediverse.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/GodotEngine

https://mastodon.social/@Blender

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/b3d

I ran the tag search on an instance I hope most matches what you're looking for. It's a game development focused instance. Searching elsewhere could produce different results.

> To me Twitter is a huge treasure trove of information.

For thousands of years people did not need continuous feed of information to survive. I am not trying to undermine your comment. Just an observation that I wanted to share.

Nobody needs it to survive now. I don't get your point.

It's not as important as people think it is.

Leaving Twitter is not as important as people think it is.

It has nothing to do with the platform really.

If a platform is huge enough, there are lots of humans there, including lots of humans who post very interesting content. Even LinkedIn, I used to think it was a pure waste of time to be on LinkedIn, but I recently realized I was completely wrong and depending on the subject you are interested in - but probably not programming - there are niches on LinkedIn that are incredibly interesting.

The scary thought is that we may loose track of those content creators that inspire us for a dumb reason like Elon Musk sabotaging it from the top, and our favorite content creators not being readily available anymore.

I hope if that happens that we do the effort to google the handles of those people and find them on whatever place of the web they migrated.