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Migration?
Apr. 19th, 2023 03:02 pm Some of my friends and I have been talking about the state of Twitter lately, and yeah, it's pretty bad these days. I'm trying to think of a similar situation and I've come up with a few:
--It feels like that temp job you had where you know that the department you're working in is on its way towards close-down, and you've been hired to basically do the last rounds of assignments while various cubicles are being torn down around you.
--It feels like the last semester of senior year in high school when all those social stigmas and irritations just...don't really matter all that much anymore.
--It feels like your two relatives who you love dearly but all they ever do when they get together is complain about the idiocy someone caused or how the quality of things has declined. And how it's not really their fault.
--It feels like you've just landed in someone's basement that stinks of stale Cheetos and hundreds of cans of Monster Energy.
The first one especially for me. The site has either chased off or disgusted a large number of users for a multitude of reasons, and it's a shell of what it used to be. I would not be surprised if there was a considerable number difference between active non-bot users in, say, 2013 and this past month. It doesn't help that its current CEO has treated it so badly you'd think he's dissecting and disassembling it piece by piece on purpose.
Mind you, I still connect with a number of people, creators and friends on there because like me, they haven't quite given up on it yet. I've given up (or at least muted) those who spend their online time QTing or RTing bigots -- I know they're there and I'd rather not be reminded so often, thank you -- but for the most part I'll still follow you if you're still there.
I'm mostly following the blogs these days, to be honest, but if I'm looking for that instant dopamine rush of chat-centric social media, then I bounce between Twitter and Facebook. I've tried Mastodon and it's a bit past my level of brainspace I'm willing to give (not that I don't understand it, it's just too fiddly for the amount of patience I'm willing to give it). I'm on Discord because my east coast friends have created a great server where we can all meet on the daily. But that's about it.
I'm sure I'll probably quit Twitter at some point, and I think it'll probably be in the same fashion I left LiveJournal: when no one I know is there anymore and it ceases to be useful, then I'll log off for the last time.
--It feels like that temp job you had where you know that the department you're working in is on its way towards close-down, and you've been hired to basically do the last rounds of assignments while various cubicles are being torn down around you.
--It feels like the last semester of senior year in high school when all those social stigmas and irritations just...don't really matter all that much anymore.
--It feels like your two relatives who you love dearly but all they ever do when they get together is complain about the idiocy someone caused or how the quality of things has declined. And how it's not really their fault.
--It feels like you've just landed in someone's basement that stinks of stale Cheetos and hundreds of cans of Monster Energy.
The first one especially for me. The site has either chased off or disgusted a large number of users for a multitude of reasons, and it's a shell of what it used to be. I would not be surprised if there was a considerable number difference between active non-bot users in, say, 2013 and this past month. It doesn't help that its current CEO has treated it so badly you'd think he's dissecting and disassembling it piece by piece on purpose.
Mind you, I still connect with a number of people, creators and friends on there because like me, they haven't quite given up on it yet. I've given up (or at least muted) those who spend their online time QTing or RTing bigots -- I know they're there and I'd rather not be reminded so often, thank you -- but for the most part I'll still follow you if you're still there.
I'm mostly following the blogs these days, to be honest, but if I'm looking for that instant dopamine rush of chat-centric social media, then I bounce between Twitter and Facebook. I've tried Mastodon and it's a bit past my level of brainspace I'm willing to give (not that I don't understand it, it's just too fiddly for the amount of patience I'm willing to give it). I'm on Discord because my east coast friends have created a great server where we can all meet on the daily. But that's about it.
I'm sure I'll probably quit Twitter at some point, and I think it'll probably be in the same fashion I left LiveJournal: when no one I know is there anymore and it ceases to be useful, then I'll log off for the last time.
