Almost a year since I started Cupoftea.social on Mastodon and left twitter and things have been going well and sign up waves every time Musk does something
I never understood the appeal of twitter before Elon bought it, and I understand it less with every news report about it since.
It was a great place to share information in a short and clear manner. You could subscribe to journalists working in your area, a professor from MIT or another university, follow sport journalists, war analysts - you name it. They all posted their thoughts and links to their articles, interviews or podcasts with them, they shared information about their new books. Twitter was like an RSS feed, where you could subscribe to authors directly. You could write them and get a reply! It was and probably still is a great tool, though Musk is taking a lot of steps to destroy it.
It was like this on the Flamingo app aswell and I prefered it that way. I almost never interact with any tweets so those buttons were just useless clutter for me.
I’m just waiting for
“After moving all features behind a paywall, Musk hides the Login button.”
At this point, he’s obviously just trolling.
This new arrangement of deck chairs will make the Titanic’s voyage perfect.
