TwisteddoodlesI’m sad about Twitter. It feels like having to move house to a new town. A more isolated town. And then there’s ominous music and suddenly I’m investigating a murder.
earth_soup@twisteddoodles feels like 2009 all over again only this time the website is purple
@earth_soup where we all shout at each other
@twisteddoodles we TOOT at each other. Tooting back and forth like Mastodons were famous for doing.
Michael P Sweeney@twisteddoodles it was the janitor, it was always the janitor #scoobydoo
Akshay Singh Jamwal@Mps03 @twisteddoodles What no it's always the butler
Cormac Lawler@twisteddoodles I'm feeling for all creatives who need to rebuild their profile. I hope you aren't affected too badly. On the 'isolated' point, though, I've seen recent experiments where same/similar posts got more engagement here than on twitter despite far fewer followers.
@cormaggio it’s weird I suppose how I used twitter over the years changed. Sometimes a huge audience isn’t great
@twisteddoodles Yes I can imagine - though I always saw you as a twitter celebrity even in what I think of as the early days. :-) And didn't something change more widely too - Twitter just stopped being anything like as much fun from, I dunno, 2012?
@cormaggio @twisteddoodles Also has to do with the algorithmic feed + scale. Your post is only boosted by other users.
Not some binary overlord that decides five clicks in the first minute + a comment means everyone should see your post for the next seventeen hours.
Once that scaled up, this works like compound interest for those with large followers, making new users only consumers. This is why I can't stand Instagram.
@akshayjamwal @twisteddoodles Releasing ourselves from the algorithm feels like an objectively Good Thing.
Jack Mcgraw"Hey, where do these stairs go?"
It’s Tinpot@twisteddoodles but that sounds great tbf.
Ed WilsonI don't think we have to move yet. We might discover that we've just built a treehouse in the garden.
Tristram Baumber@twisteddoodles It does feel sad, doesn't it? But I'm hoping it leads to personal growth of some kind. There is something kind of nice about building the experience from scratch again. On Twitter I was no longer sure how much of what I saw was what I chose and how much was what the algorithm chose for me.