Leaving twitter isn't easy, but the reason for me wanting to do so happened long before musk. As someone who has struggled with ocd anxiety my whole life, the non stop deluge of ai-art, nfts and fascists in my daily experience was just raw sewage for my mental hygiene. However - I think it is important to remember how important twitter has been for large groups of people and I think this article captures something important: https://www.garbageday.email/p/one-giant-slow-motion-fail-whale
One giant slow-motion fail whale

Read to the end for a pic of the person who ran next to your car when you were a child

Garbage Day
@simonstalenhag one thing im going to miss from twitter was that one period when people tagged you in photos of landscapes with captions like “reminds me of simon stalenhag” or smth like that.

@foervraengd @simonstalenhag I'll miss a lot from twitter's pre-algorithm days, but that was eight years ago.

Apart from the important things highlighted in the article, all I'll miss from current twitter is the friends I made during the decline and the random threads about abandoned Eastern European themeparks and different Georgian knife-holsters hidden under dresses.

Twitter deciding to chase Instagram was detrimental to so many people's health.