@Cheri Facebook is easy to give up. Twitter is another thing. I wish that mainstream media will start exploring decentralized services.
@Cheri what is it about Twitter that keeps you going back? I’ve never used it. And FB - I’ve been on/off it about three times now. Currently off and it feels like it's for the last time now. Is it the likes/comments/stories?
@Cheri I escaped by deleting my fully personal account and then creating a new account that was only for very specific things, aimed at a positive thing for me. So this was a much better version of Twitter and then after just a few short weeks things were still bad enough that I have even stopped using the positive account. Now I'm ready to delete it and maintain only one account, for work.
The effect of seeing the most positive version of Twitter still being absolutely awful, that's what really helped me finally draw a line underneath the entire platform and walk away. Now it's even easier for me to fully embrace the robust tools of the open web, even at the level of a basic uninformed user of the internet it's relatively simple to get everything I want away from any silo.
@simonwoods I’ve curated and filtered my lists very carefully. It’s not enough. I suspect big impersonal feeds = too much stimuli for my brain. And very few people actually interact on Twitter these days. It’s 90% marketing and viral insults. 😑
@hollyhoneychurch Partly it’s memory (been there 10 years - it used to be great), partly it’s because there are tons of writers there. And my selfish worry: if I’m not sharing my blog post/book links into some mainstream social media no one will find them.
@Cheri I think people initially used it more mostly because it was new and shiny. Networks at scale must include all sorts of things that a lot of people will dislike, otherwise they are not networks at scale and will inevitably change into smaller networks. I know it's an uncomfortable thought for people who have had good things come out of Twitter -- I have struggled with this myself -- but I think there is now plenty of evidence to suggest that the so-called town square idea simply does not work for the vast majority of individual and personal use.
It just took some time before it became obvious enough to see.
I think shared comment spaces (the town square idea) can work fine, just not in the silo framework.
90% marketing and viral insults.
Perfectly put. Twitter has become more of a broadcasting medium intended to incite extreme reactions.
@Cheri is it not great because of adverts/mean comments? What happened to make you think of leaving at all?