Oddbean new post about login | logout Most journalists have, sad to say, stuck with the deadbird site. They shouldn't, and one of our finest political journo-activists, @df5e4030, says of X/Twitter "Enough wrestling with the pig. Time to go." https://theconnector.substack.com/p/finishing-with-twitterx?utm_campaign=email-post&r=qs4z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Note: Micah is a friend and he quotes me in this piece.
@f8d9bc1c @df5e4030 did y'all deleted all your content or did you just locked it or actually went ahead with the "deactivating" because fuck deactivating. i want complete and utter deletion if am going to disappear from that site. if not, or until a someone with way more money than me can get a bunch of us and do a class action suit against them, am in the lock the account down with an adieu and never go back until we win damages and a deletion.
@f8d9bc1c @df5e4030 I think it is out of necessity that journalists have stuck with Twitter. It became a force. It became an essential tool. It was centralized. All sorts of people used it, shared things on it, you could sometimes see news happen right in front of you. Were there a real alternative, I think journalists would bolt. But there is none. As much as we like Mastodon, or are intrigued with BlueSky or whatever, Twitter took a long time to become what it was.
@f8d9bc1c @df5e4030 The problem I've had with twitter is that it does with 'popularity' what the 1% have done to the economies: made the pyramid enemic; like Tokyo Sky Tree. One person writes a missive and it get's 200k impressions. One comment, regardless of timing and quality of content, garners merely 1. Not even high school popularity contests are that dismissive... ok, well, maybe a little.
@f8d9bc1c @df5e4030 I don't use TwitterX or Truth Social... Both are filled with Garbage... Why would anyone waste their Life Reading "BOTS" or Propaganda? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/063/749/250/938/844/original/3facb4a116c01c6c.jpg
