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I am never joining the site with cryptobro stank since jack is on the board. Sorry, I'd rather drink a jug of pee than step foot. If I ever do join it'll only be begrudginly because JP twitter dev members move there, and it's open to the public (ie, i'll wait until codes aren't required) and it somehow bans nazis and all the toxic crud twitter got infested with and does a good job moderation (which, I doubt it). I'm sticking to cohost (good moderation, anti-nazi, quiet but chill) and reddit (easy to curate) unless some messiah website comes to save us all. I remember the other things like Hive that were supposed to be the twitter killers, only for those to die out too.
several of the artists I follow have jumped to Bluesky, so I hope hope hope it'll be a halfway decent alternative eventually.
actually I wonder if it's possible, that rumor about the investors taking twitter back from Musk due to his mismanagement and changing it back around? any hope of them trying to roll back his changes and make it more like it was (which still wasn't great but still better than this)?
It won't be. Threads could have maybe been, due to the company size behind it and the nature being great for businesses/freelancers and I had hope, but the EU being cringe and the site being barebones as fuck made it die pretty quickly and not viable. If it didn't force me to make an instagram I'd have migrated there by now. I'm curious where JP devs will move to, along with what companies like Nintendo will do. Basically, what will replace "The Twitter Direct".
but god god fucking PLEASE buy the site back from this dick, i dont even care if the saudi investors fully claim it just please kick that moron into outer space and ban all the nazi shit
i'm still mad one of my main hangouts for the past 9 years got ruined by a shitass loser who killed the wordpress API and made freelancing much, much harder than it should be. And made the anti-trans bigotry skyrocket to levels I couldn't even possibly imagine, to the point I feel ill anytime I go on and inevitably see a bigoted, obviously rule breaking comment that never gets actioned when i spam report on it.
Interesting, I've also seen people stating the opposite: If you jump ship you leave the platform to the trolls and neverdowells and make it effectively worse. I can kinda see both perspectives but I don't blame anybody who doesn't want to expend any more energy towards this platform tbh.
Don't think it's impossible, but no idea how likely it is. Kinda depends on whether or not they continue to lose money (and reputation I guess?)
I was in that other camp for months, from I wanna say Oct-April? But as the US pushed through anti-trans bills and things were getting not good, the site got outright horrible to use with all the blue check morons having their bigotry pushed to the top while ordinary people who were just trying to do their normal thing or spread awareness of that bad shit got flamed by them. One of my twitter mutuals has had an account focused on deadnaming her and falsely calling her a pedophile doing it on a daily basis since JANUARY, and the reports I made have done zilch. Twice it's been banned and then immediately unsuspended. She literally fled the internet and this prick is still at it, all because she called out a bigoted employee at a company and is seemingly immune on Elon's hellscape.
I pretty much threw my hands up in the air in april and just decided to use it to switchpost, then in June when they stopped the ability to see posts logged out I just gave up, went private and never looked back outside of tending to the stubborn people who won't leave when they need something (or to further switchpost until Nintendo shuts it off, which i'm surprised they haven't yet lol).
the site can either fully burn to ashes or be bought by literally
anyone else, there's nothing else that'll be done. I should not have to be literally considering fucking substack of all places in 2023 to spread my work on, but I guess that's what elon has made freelancers like me do. The whole situation with the genocide against palestine just further shows how horribad Twitter has gotten, since it's unbearable to use and dangerously covered in misinformation, when 2021 twitter was what was able to awaken me to the horrors of that conflict when that incident broke out... How much things have fallen.