@protecttruth

In addition, hearing that Twitter is planning to have encrypted DM's and voice/video calls in the near future?
How could I trust said platform with that, especially now!

@protecttruth Your rationale is more mature than mine: I mainly just want to help him lose $44B by no longer providing free content to the bird site. ;-)

But even before he took over, I was fed up with my occasional stints in TwitMo for no good reason, plus the shadow-banning of a successful account that I had nurtured for years.

Clearly, the Twitter machine doesn't want my free content that drives their traffic. So, "buh-bye."

@protecttruth this is free market, Republican system. You don't like a product or an ideology? move on and look for your niche.

Stay and fight for twitter? It's like demand a chesse burger in a Dominos Pizza place.

Twitter is heading to support supremasism, hate speech and a white political view.

Let them be and fight to protect the only rule that matter: never use the government law enforcement agencies to make other to believe what you believe like a segregation law or anti-non-whites law.

@protecttruth I tried to explain this to someone earlier today, but they were having none of it. Then when I tried to explain why being here was so much better the response was “oh it’s just too hard”

I literally created an instance for my friends from Twitter to join, to make it easy and the answer is “it’s too hard”.

@protecttruth The other place was increasingly feeling like screaming in a small padded cell. I could see my engagement numbers drop; there’s no “truth to power” on a platform when your voice is artificially muted.

So then you’re just choosing to maybe entertain what’s left of your silo, while providing usage numbers for him to woo advertisers back for a hate platform.

@protecttruth Fighting for Twitter is a fight for what, exactly?

Engaging authoritarians and extremists on Twitter amplifies them. Walking amongst them without engaging normalizes them.

If you want to save Twitter, you can't. But you *can* save people -- by leaving Twitter.

The best thing now is for Twitter to become like Gab or 8chan. The kooks already have places to talk to themselves -- let Twitter become another one. Any other path strengthens their nonsense and exhausts everyone else.

@protecttruth

Why fight for a system that you don't own or control, when you can build your own? :D

@protecttruth Would you build your house on a swamp? Owned by someone else?

Even the best foundation can't make up for the mud it is built on

@protecttruth well welcome aboard and hope Mastodon is good for you

I've recently joined myself and think I'm going to spend my time here instead of jumping around different places or go back to Twitter

@protecttruth
Twitter was the community pool where you could cool off & meet some folks even if disagreeable people also had access.

As Twitter trends toward septic tank some argue we have to maintain "our" turf. But it ain't!

Tho I'll agree we need to make an orderly exit, it's not our play spot. So, as it goes truly shitty we will & should give it a wide berth - as will the rest of the sane world.

The passing of relevence of Elon Musk & his MAGA space will be our revenge.

@protecttruth while I value the people I've met on Twitter and had made some beautiful connections in multiple communities that impact my life, specifically #epilepsy (16 yo son), #depression (18 yo son) and my feel good #quilting and #cats , it's not worth my mental health to stay in a toxic environment. So I am here rebuilding.

It was a really interesting, that while I had a pang of regret leaving those I've built relationships with, it was brief. That tells me how toxic everything is there.

@protecttruth @satirehat
None of what Eric Blair concerns me.

I mostly reply and RT items of interest--if no one other than the people I reply to sees, that's fine with me.

Also only use Twitter to view specific Twitter timelines like @satirehat @clearing_fog @teresaccarter2 (not sure if she's on Mastodon) and other faves.

So I think algos make no difference to me.

Also very rarely get troll replies; exceptions--recent troll replies on topics like mastodon, crypto, FTX.