I’m on BlueSky and it seems to be morphing into what Xitter was as more actual content migrates over. We’ll see.
I just joined Bluesky and have been on Threads for a while. I find that most of the people I actually want to hear from are on Threads and don’t miss the Twitter/X experience.
Linda probably has a busier than average day, today …
I hope that’s a permanent change. I’d be happy if people copy/pasted tweet content into this thread instead of embedding them. Less traffic for Elon.
In a sane conversation, and his might be a reasonable assertion.
In the context of an Elon Musk dominated Twitter, this is something between stupid and insane.
Twitter is the objectively indisputably worst option in any social media discussion. Moving to an isolated shack in rural Montana and mailing out bombs is a better choice than remaining associated with that ever-deepening pool of shit, and thereby continuing to be part of the problem.
Tell us how you really feel.
Truth Social is waiting for you! 
I endorse this message.
I used to be pretty hooked on scrolling Twitter, but I’m on Threads now. I have barely gone to (rolls eyes) X recently, and the few times I have I felt instantly repulsed by most of what I see. I’m done with it with zero regrets or reservations. When he originally bought Twitter I thought, and I posted this much earlier in this thread, that he thought he could control the narrative in a top down fashion by controlling the town square. His idea was that he could change peoples views and votes by forcing the opposite views onto them. He thought that by bringing back all of the Truth Social crowd and elevating them, their narrative would win out. The fault in this thinking is not understanding that this plan would simply result in himself and his imported MAGAs just getting mass blocked by everyone and/or that the reasonable people would just leave and go elsewhere with content moderation. He also failed to realize that MAGAs aren’t interested in discussion and debate, they view everything as a battle to win and dominate your opponents. They live for “owning the libs”. If the libs go away then its just like Truth Social again and it’s boring to them to just talk to each other. They need victims, otherwise there’s no point. He calls himself a free speech absolutist, but he doesn’t understand that listeners have freedom too, freedom to not listen and not associate with you. This whole thing has been folly from the start due to basic misunderstandings of human behavior and what free speech really means.
I’ve tried a couple times to get an invitation to bluesy, but they won’t invite me. I’m a nobody. 
I have been on twitter for as long as I’ve been here. I’m as bereft at losing it as I would be if I lost the dope. I’ve been a little conflicted about leaving when I see people I follow saying to stay and fight. I’m addicted to it and having a tough time giving it up. I’ve never tried threads and post is just boring.
Damn him.
Perhaps if you spelled their name correctly they’d get the message you’re talking to them, not somebody else. 
Oh poop. Spellcheck doesn’t like Bluesky and I didn’t catch it.
If you have an Instagram account, you can already go on Threads. I find it gives me the same things I got from Twitter in the before days. It is a Meta product, so you know, Zuckerberg, but compared to the Bond villain that is Musk, it’s night and day. They also have a “hide from everyone” option for troll replies to your posts and comments. It seems much easier to block the trolls pre-emptively. It fills the void for me so far, anyway.
ETA: also, most of the people and accounts I liked to follow are on Threads now too.
Let me say, I still go to Twitter, because the stream I use is only people I am following, and I dumped a bunch of them in the last half year. So I get the major newspapers, some sports teams I like, and some people I’ve made pseudo-friends with over the years. That is all slowly migrating to bluesky, but until it what does fully, I won’t be leaving.
I guess since there isn’t an outrage yet today to drive convo… here is my history(ish) with Twitter.
I remember back in 2007 being on a date, drinks at a local place, and my date asking me about social media and (at the time) what I thought of Twitter. In my usual completely wrong way I pontificated that I don’t see the attraction of a platform that only lets me post messages with character limits when I could instead use Facebook and post photos, have conversations, etc. Ask me for advice on the right time to buy into the real estate market, if it’s a good time to invest in Google when shares were under $100, or whether I should hold or sell stock options. All horribly wrong advice/opinion on my part.
Fast forward… I had a Twitter account for a few years, no idea now when I first joined, but I was never a regular user. Occasionally I’d check it out but generally didn’t find it terribly attractive. I started checking it more going into the 2016 election and as the 2020 campaign was ramping up but still I didn’t really lean into it as a daily thing I checked. That changed on January 6th. I remember having CNN on the t.v. and constantly scrolling Twitter for real-time tweets. I basically got hooked then and there. From then until a few months ago, I began checking Twitter multiple times a day. I’d find myself at night scrolling my feed, even when laying in bed.
What I noticed was I was feeding my head with constant outrage. I’m not the most even-keeled person to begin with, I can be pretty emotional. You know how I feel at any given moment by my facial expression, body language, etc. And Twitter was like mainlining anger straight into my veins for hours on end, every day. I had the self-awareness to see how it was influencing me and my actions were keeping me in a highly irritated state of mind. I decided it was time to walk away entirely. No suspending of my account, I deleted it entirely.
So I started looking at alternatives. The first one I gave serious thought to was Post. I had no real problems with Post but clearly over time it was clear they were not getting the users. A couple months ago I got on Threads and am now checking it regularly. It is less intense in terms of trolls, MAGAs, and just sheer vitriol. The user base is growing and of late really accelerating. So far I’m finding it a very viable replacement but I also never had niche communities or interests I participated in on Twitter. I just like getting a variety of news, commentary, and stupid pet memes so it’s working for me.
Edit: nevermind, I’m a victim of a poor memory.
How does “agreeing with Viktor Orban” work for you?
Knowledge is good.
Thank you. I just joined Threads. It looks pretty good so hopefully that will help me avoid twitter.
Well, Elmo and Orban do have similar views about the importance of national sovereignty when it comes to Russia and Ukraine.
At least you didn’t write “Bluey”; that really would have changed your comment dramatically.