The Yang Slinger returns with this decree: It's officially time for all self-respecting journalists to leave the hellscape that is Twitter/X. Don't walk. Run.
I don't see all the crappy stuff that everyone sees there. Perhaps that is because I dont read all the comments. And maybe because i don't follow a lot of dopes. A lot of people I follow on Twitter are also on blue sky. I am on that site as well. No matter where you are at you are going to find ass hats like Rocker or the guy with the long reply about Jeff. At least here Jeff could have taken down that garbage as it doesn't contribute anything. But this is the price we have to pay for freedom of speech. The government shouldn't be doing it. In an indirect way they are forcing social media platforms on what should be taken down.
Glad to see you are back. Tik Tok is my calming site at night. It gives me a laugh and is fun. As for twitter i need it for work. So I set up push notifications for certain people and dont venture off that page. Some weird crap still sneaks in though. Thanks for bringing back Tyler's immaculate grid. So I can feel bad about my scores
I'm a fantasy sports player, so Twitter is still useful for important news: Injuries, lineups, trades, etc. Bluesky needs the newsbreakers for it to really take off.
I've been rooting for Twitter to die long before Elon Musk took over. I ran screaming from it in 2018 b/c I thought it was a horrible place where the absolute worst people of every ideology left/right/center gathered to either rip their enemies to shreds or have circle jerks in their own echo chambers congratulating themselves on their own awesomeness (although yes, OG Twitter was more aggressive about banning the worst right-wingers). It was always a place of dog-piling, puritanical public shaming, ad-hominem attacks, and middle-school cafeteria cruelty. It had a profoundly negative impact on journalism, as well as politics obviously.
Musk is a tool and I don't disagree with anything you've said about him or the output of John Rocker and his ilk on X but Twitter was always a net negative for society.
I saw Stephen King left yesterday and I decided it was time for me to go too. I've never had that much of a following, but I did make some great friends there. Sad to see what happened to it. Oh well, onwards!
I don't see all the crappy stuff that everyone sees there. Perhaps that is because I dont read all the comments. And maybe because i don't follow a lot of dopes. A lot of people I follow on Twitter are also on blue sky. I am on that site as well. No matter where you are at you are going to find ass hats like Rocker or the guy with the long reply about Jeff. At least here Jeff could have taken down that garbage as it doesn't contribute anything. But this is the price we have to pay for freedom of speech. The government shouldn't be doing it. In an indirect way they are forcing social media platforms on what should be taken down.
Glad to see you are back. Tik Tok is my calming site at night. It gives me a laugh and is fun. As for twitter i need it for work. So I set up push notifications for certain people and dont venture off that page. Some weird crap still sneaks in though. Thanks for bringing back Tyler's immaculate grid. So I can feel bad about my scores
I'm a fantasy sports player, so Twitter is still useful for important news: Injuries, lineups, trades, etc. Bluesky needs the newsbreakers for it to really take off.
Welcome back. Twitter account….deactivated!
Hell yeah. Glad to see more people leaving Twitter, but for journalists this should not be a difficult decision.
I've been rooting for Twitter to die long before Elon Musk took over. I ran screaming from it in 2018 b/c I thought it was a horrible place where the absolute worst people of every ideology left/right/center gathered to either rip their enemies to shreds or have circle jerks in their own echo chambers congratulating themselves on their own awesomeness (although yes, OG Twitter was more aggressive about banning the worst right-wingers). It was always a place of dog-piling, puritanical public shaming, ad-hominem attacks, and middle-school cafeteria cruelty. It had a profoundly negative impact on journalism, as well as politics obviously.
Musk is a tool and I don't disagree with anything you've said about him or the output of John Rocker and his ilk on X but Twitter was always a net negative for society.
I saw Stephen King left yesterday and I decided it was time for me to go too. I've never had that much of a following, but I did make some great friends there. Sad to see what happened to it. Oh well, onwards!
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