Anecdotal, but so many people in my circles have jumped ship to Bluesky that the transition is pretty seamless at this point. It feels more like Twitter than what became of Twitter does.
The problem is that you are creating an echo chamber. My experience using let’s quit “insert company name” is that these echo chambers tend to be toxic and terrible. IE.. Gab, Truth Social, etc.
It’s very difficult to do unless you can have broad consensus. I tend to use Twitter for an industry wide group and while a few individuals have moved, the Bluesky version just doesn’t have the reach or usefulness of the twitter or x version.
I'm active in the retro game console modding community and we pretty much all jumped ship same time in early November.
I still log to Twitter once a week to check, there haven't been anything new in my following feed for at least a month beside the people cross posting.
So I can easily see myself do just that, I wouldn't miss anything anyway.
Hugged, but here's a snapshot from Dec 26:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241226192120/https://www.hello...
I quit Twitter in 2008, around the time I quit Facebook. Here's what I can say with confidence: Bluesky, Mastodon, whatever—they're all going to end up being bad, like Twitter. The problems ultimately come out of the format, not the specific instance of the format.
Can't quit Twitter/X if you never made an account to begin with. ;)
I couldn't stand plain vanilla X either and entirely sympathize. I did leave it, for several years. But now, my heavily curated X feed (I use Control Panel for Twitter) is the single highest signal to noise news source I've found in five decades as an obsessive infovore. I filter out everything but the direct opinions of specific contributors, creating the bespoke daily newspaper I dreamed of for so long. I'd really rather that this wasn't the product of a centralized platform and would happily leap to a decentralized platform with similar value. But I won't let perfect be the enemy of the best collection of smart people I like to listen to I've yet to find except maybe on HN. And HN would benefit from better curation options too.
I already did this two years ago. Twitter had already gone down the shitter a decade ago when the far right moved in, and by 2022 I was only using it to keep tabs on the Asahi Linux project. Marcan moving to Mastodon was enough to get me to abandon my account.
I deleted two quite big accounts that I ran.
Now I’m still on Nostr so I haven’t kicked my social media addiction yet, but at least on Nostr I get to pick and choose which of any, algorithm is forging my timeline.
The people/accounts I want to follow don't quit though
Done... like 10 years ago, but I didn't switch to anything. I'd previously used it for connecting with people at conferences and keeping up with stuff in web dev, but I quit because it was simultaneously too addictive with the drip feed of tiny—and in retrospect usually worthless—posts, and I got tired with the accumulation of moral posturing. I didn't even have any spicy opinions at the time, but it was just so gross to continually be bombarded with top 5 reasons I'm not feeling bad enough about subjects that have nothing to do with me or those of the people I'm following; "don't forget all of us in the in-group agreed to add __ to our desc today"
Anyone made a X to Bluesky importer yet? It is pretty difficult to discover the users back on Bluesky, and I thought with the Bluesky hose, it should be possible to matching content v.s. user?
I had to quit both Reddit and Twitter after their respective API changes that disallowed the clients I was using. There are very good nonpartisan reasons to get off these platforms.
On the topic of migrations from one social media app to another, it has been very interesting to see the rapid migration from TikTok to Xiaohongshu ahead of the impending ban. I was very surprised to see that Xiaohongshu is already #1 on the US Apple app store's "Social Media" category. It seems that the appetite to use Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Shorts or Twitter after the ban comes into effect is very low.
Meta: when I hear people talking about "X" I (still?) think they are referring to X11.
I left on 2022-12-18 after some of the muskian shenanigans and I haven't missed it since, quite the contrary in fact. Before that I had to put a time limit on using the app to fight off the dark patterns.
Now I'm going to actually delete my account.
For me the relative tranquility of Mastodon is not a bug but a feature. I deleted my Twitter account shortly after Elon bought it, actually not so much because of him, but to get more time for being with my family and working on my startup.
bluesky and other echochambers are not the solution to censorship. bluesky is the left to the x right. both serving different masters.
The solution is true mesh network with financial incentive to "host" the content. Imagine kinda of like bittorrent seeding where the longer you seed the more you "mine crypto". I'm too dumb to build such a thing, but that is the solution.
A true peer to peer network where all content is hosted and nothing can be brought down. you locally choose to "hide politics", "hide porn", "hide violence" and that's it.
the web as it was intended, free information.
Joke's on you, I quit it a decade ago.
I'd love to read why, but the site is down...
Big celebrities/influencers and news media need to leave X for this to have an effect. Nothing will change as long as both of those user types remain on the platform.
At first, I really thought this was a bad idea. If you don't like reality, shutting yourself away in your own safe shell isn't helpful. The things you dislike will still be there, and by isolating yourself, you not only lose contact with them but also lose any chance to intervene.
However, over the last few months, Twitter/X has clearly become a propaganda tool that promotes a particular worldview (I won't say "a political party" because Elon Musk's project seems broader than just U.S. politics).
I feel like the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange: in one quick scroll, you'll see explosions, puppies, tits, Nazi supporters, and Elon Musk's tweets all mixed together.
Now, i agree it's time to leave the platform. He is going way too far using a social network to push his own agenda, is too evident why he spent 60 billon on this.
I tried signing back up a couple weeks ago and despite not following and then blocking Elon, and only following non and a-political topics, I was inundated with right wing propaganda. Every 4-5th post was from Elon or similar. It was too distracting to use normally so I deleted my account and moved on.
Once again flagged, it's becoming an issue :(.
I see more and more post disappearing and since you can't vouch unless the post is completely dead it just gets buried.
Bluesky is the closest thing to Twitter nowadays. Was hoping for Threads to work out but it seems less organic than Bluesky.
If you do do this, consider leaving your tweets/posts up: there's already quite a lot of link rot out there.
Funny, I was thinking this was a "go all in or Wayland" and stop using X.
But I already did quit, remobed my X ID a few months ago.
Hahaha people here got so upset that there wasn't unity of support for quitting X, that they flagged the post.
The people fleeing X are leaving because they are being exposed to views that they disagree with and they can't stand to see it, except bluesky and mastadon are even more draconian and capricious than before Elon buying it. I'm staying because finally the views that I agree with are being exposed better, but still 50% of my feed is dominated by views that I disagree with but I can at least tolerate it now.
If you’re going to quit one thing just to transition into some other thing you’re not really doing anything.
Site is down.
Site seems like it was hugged to death.
My initial take on this is that it's probably just another one of a thousand "let's self-sort ourselves by political bias".
BlueSky has a CP problem (enter "does BlueSky have a CP problem" into your favorite search engine). BlueSky also has a problem with moderation; the pile-ons are trying to eradicate opposing (read: non-leftist) points of view. Don't take my word for it; it's even been reported here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159454
Facebook is full of ads, but at least finally Meta (or at least Zuckerberg) decided to ditch the "fact checkers" which were just a thin veneer over "suppressing non-leftist points-of-view".
X seems fun to me now but I am nervous that Yaccarino is starting to deviate from Musk's free speech vision in order to appease advertising cartels.
Truth is a right wing echo chamber.
Gab is an anti-semitic cesspool.
Telegram is annoying as its subscription/follow model is spammy.
No experience with Parler.
So overall I'm happy with X. YMMV. Don't put yourself in an echo chamber.
I think the reason why Twitter is problematic isn't Musk, but is directly related to the structure of Twitter, thus Bluesky will eventually inherit exactly the same problems.
The underlying issue is that the structure of these services is short form and uni-directional. It's the internet's megaphone. This is great celebrities and media outlets, because it acts more as a megaphone than as a discussion forum. However, it is also great for low-information, bumper-sticker politics. The limited text entry deliberately disincentivizes nuance, thus will not be conducive to good-faith disagreement, and instead forces participants into a team sports style of arguing.
Perhaps there is a local minima where each political paradigm ends up on a different system, but social networks are natural monopolies, especially when they take the form of a megaphone. Thus, they should always try to reorganize themselves into a single provider, leading to the exact same conflict-prone environment that was created on Twitter. That Bluesky now feels peasant now is exactly that the user base is a self-selected group, as one of the platforms becomes dominant again, one can only assume the conflict-prone structure of the service will again assert itself.
For now, I'll stay on Reddit. Admittedly imperfect, but it's a place where nuance can and does show up.
That ship sailed a while ago
why do people feel so strongly about this? presumably you're only engaging with those you follow, which is at your discretion. does it really matter what platform they're on?
Honestly, I just quit using social media entirely for the most part.
It’s been really mentally liberating.
But I like X :(
Let's not.
I don't understand the obsession with hating on X/Musk right now. He has his opinions, but X is still a great platform, and last I checked, Mastodon and Bluesky still feel like echo chambers (and the latter has a lot of... furry content). In the quiet, it feels like the media moved from hating Trump to hating Musk, and people are now obsessing over amplifying that message. But for what gain? It all kind of reminds me of Two Minutes Hate from 1984.
Heck yeah I'm down, I already deleted my personal account a while ago. Professional one is next.
When are we quitting telegram by the way?
Quitting x to move to another x clone is a copout. Quit x and move to nothing(or real life)
I'll stay on X. May quit who wants. Me not.
No.
>Why am I leaving X? Under Elon Musk, X has become a machine for manipulating opinion. Let's refuse to be complicit. [...] let's take back control by leaving X collectively for alternatives that respect free speech.
This is, excuse my French, either incredibly fucking stupid or extremely disingenuous. I'm not going to go over every case of censorship under previous management, but it was all astoundingly evident: there was an aberrant woke bias whereby they strongly silenced everything even just a tad unaligned with that reality-denying, pseudomoralistic, corporativist ideology that the powers that be has so brutally taken advantage of.
If I quit X (I did), it wasn't because it turned into an echo chamber--on the contrary, it stopped being one, as it is now pretty balanced, according to data on it. It was rather because its fundamental design was already focused on compulsive, mindless consumption of junk, and now it's that, but increased manyfold, exactly the same as the abhorrent characteristics that make it more of a walled-garden. I cannot use it just on principle. To my mind, the web should be open and discovery of content should respect intentional and sovereign behavior, not promote addiction and lack of mental hygiene.
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Sure, leave already. Dig a hole. Go into your cave. Watch shadows. Smoke weed. Stick your fingers in your ears. Close your eyes. Hate. Then hate some more. Be a solipsist high-fiving other solipsists.
Honestly, how pathetic. The liberal is the man who doesn't want to talk or listen to anyone who disagrees with him. It's not hard to understand why half the country hates Musk and their fellow citizens on X, but listening is fundamental to maintenance of the polis. Anyhow, I'm on both X and BlueSky.
No, let’s not.
Why would one want to to quit X and move to the same kind of platform somewhere else?
Go ahead and leave. I'm staying.
It is consistently astonishing that the IT sector is predominantly inhabited by individuals of a leftist persuasion, despite the fact that disciplines such as programming ought to instil a strong foundation in mathematics, logic, and structured thinking, which are typically associated with right-leaning thinking.
I moved over from Twitter to Bluesky with the big wave (I've been using it since mid-2023 however). It's everything I've wanted from the community to the engagement. What's more, I'm not punished for linking to my blog! Everything I could have asked for.
My profile in case you want to follow: https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net