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Goodbye, Twitter

popehat.substack.com

37 pointsmaxerickson15 comments

They always come back...usually within a few months when the realize that the alternatives are not nearly as good and miss the engagement.

…so said the owner of MySpace in 2009

I rejoined MySpace a few days ago. They are still up and kicking.

that is because myspace was dying and Facebook was rising. Unlikely twitter will meet a similar fate.

Well except for Digg, Myspace, and probably many more examples.

The author speaks of "brand" but what does that really mean? Is the content filtering mechanism a key part of a "brand"? What content filtering does the author prefer? What is the author's brand preference? It wasn't stated.

This was stated:

> The last straw was Elon Musk sending lunatics and bigots against former employees and leaning into conspiracy theories.

Aside from that, he's recently retweeted others' shock at Elon allowing actual nazis back onto the platform along with some of the worst purveyors of harassment and covid disinformation. (Andrew Angliin, Laura Loomer, Robert Malone, and on and on).

Who would want to be a part of any of that?

Banning all of those trolls was the only thing that made it a useable platform, but now every time I logon, the top of my feed is some halfwit running a poll asking whether Elon is the bravest person in the country for bringing free speech back with 20k upvotes.

>but now every time I logon, the top of my feed

Just change your feed settings to only show people you follow? I never ever see anything else besides what I follow

Nah, I'm with Popehat. Elon's fine to platform whoever he wants to but I have no interest in sharing a service with those folks.

Whatever happened to just leaving something, why does every write need to put out a piece when they are leaving something?

People usually write their goodbyes so that people who are interested know they weren't banned ... ban deleted or other and no long reside there, as such they will not continue to check that particular e-space. Many goodbyes go on to air grievances / problems that ultimately left them little room to stay. He's just opposed to the direction Twitter is headed.

Why say goodbye before you leave your friend’s house? Just grab your stuff and walk out the door without saying a word! No one will wonder why you left.

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