I manage social media for my daughter’s partner’s businesses. It’s part time, ad hoc and unpaid. Birdsite, Instagram, LinkedIn.

I binned my personal birdsite account last year.

I kept the app on my phone so I could manage the other two accounts.

No more. The toxic comments appearing on the supposed “For you” timeline especially in the aftermath of another school shooting in the US have done it for me.

I’ve deleted the app.

#Byebyebirdsite #toxictwitter

It was surprisingly hard to get banned, for some reason. I was basically being Sophia from the Golden Girls for months!

For posterity, some of my final tweets.
#BannedByElon #ByeByeBirdSite

Hey everyone! Been a while since I posted on here! I took the leap and decided to delete my Bird Site account. So I'll only be posting on here from now on! #ByeByeBirdSite #Converted #SafeSpace #Neurodivergent

Ahhh there's the good old #MuskBump

Mastodon had been adding ~1000 new users per hour over the last week or so, until two hours ago. Wonder why 🤔

#twittermigration #ElonMuskWrongForTwitter #byebyebirdie #byebyetwitter #ByeByeBirdSite #GreatTwitterMigration

Perhaps my favorite thing I've noticed since migrating here? 100% less Kevin Sorbo.
#ByeByeBirdsite
@matt_runs is this you or an imposter? Without Elon Musk's fool proof system it's difficult to tell #ByeByeBirdsite
Honestly, it felt rather liberating to do this. Nice to be somewhere new. Well, many somewheres for now, but I'm sure it'll shake out, and probably not there. I'll peak in on my laptop, but I'm done watching decay in slow motion all the time. I'll wait for the highlight reels and start in earnest on building somewhere fresh. #solongtwitter #byebyebirdsite