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Kate KlonickWent back on Twitter after about three weeks off.
Strong dying mall vibes.
Scrolling felt like walk past magic eye poster kiosks and Hot Topic while smelling the weird miasma of Mrs. Fields plus Yankee Candle.
dorian@klonick it's weird cause there was once upon a time a pretense of bureaucratic procedure in how the platform was managed, and that's been completely vitiated, just totally wiped away
LOLRH1 
🇺🇲🇺🇦@klonick not even Sbarro's to be seen.
Raymond@klonick i think I've been to that mall.
Karen Strickholm@klonick And the bathroom disinfectant - so foul.
Hammancheez@klonick Spirit Hallowtweet
Jenni Merrifield 🍓🇨🇦Underrated toot right here
Long Truong @klonick some solid jokes about Kevin Mccarthy on there tho
C Silva@klonick love the analogy 😁
paprikapink@klonick This feels accurate. The trouble with dying malls is that they can hang on for decades. And there's always one thing or another that you can only get there.
James Grimmelmann@klonick That’s funny. From the Mastodon side, I get the sense there are a lot of people who can’t or won’t leave Twitter, and at this point it is hard to imagine what would convince them to if the past two months haven’t.
@jtlg it is so stark. the engagement is less, it *feels* emptier, like going to Sears at 11 am on a Tuesday.
@jtlg also let's not forget that malls *still exist* despite having been dying for the last 20 years.
Mushifoot
Sean Macツ
Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎
J. Nathan Matias 🦣
Luis Villa@jtlg @klonick yeah, I see a lot of people who are obviously cross-posting but only actively engaging on Twitter. (Plenty of real, organic activity “here” too, but … definitely not the same.) And even some pretty anti-Musk people, who seemed to be pretty credibly in “this is my last tweet mode” in December, actively returning to Twitter?
(I’m still dipping my toes in over there right now because the ML and politics discourse over there is still much thicker.)
Andrew Raff@luis_in_brief @jtlg @klonick It’s much more hollow there, but here doesn’t have all of the same resonance that it used to there before (waves hand) all this.
Giraffe Slava 🇺🇸🇺🇦@luis_in_brief @jtlg @klonick I don’t mind a cross post that is just a duplicate. I’m annoyed by the direct link to twitter.
Benj Soule🫂💙HumanityFirst🌅
Danatheone@klonick dying mall, anchor stores hanging onto their many followers
While the mall manager continues treating the help like expendable low life
While the mall manager continues treating the help like expendable low life
Nicole ParsonsIf you want your account suspended ask Larry Ellison about his campaign donations to Jan 6 insurrectionists.
I think it's what got my account suspended yesterday afternoon.
bodhidaveWelcome to the club!
RedwoodGirl in ChicoI put a comment on my post including 3 links to publicly available reporting on Larry Ellison's campaign donations.
He's hardly keeping it a secret.
No warning or temporary suspension. No email or text regarding my account. Just a suspension.
Just to be clear, Larry Ellison has been public about funding election deniers.
At this time, there's little reporting on who funded the malign influence campaign behind Jan 6.
There's little reporting on who paid for busing, car rentals, burner phones, hotel reservations, airfare, meals, etc for the insurrectionists themselves.
Ginni Thomas paid for buses.
edgeoforever 🍎@RedwoodGirl @Npars01 @klonick No. in my case, there was a dialogue box informing me that in order to deactivate my account, I need to appeal my suspension first.🤷♀️
GoodVibes7472@klonick OK, you scouted and reported to us, thank you ma’am, now you are given a liberty. Get out of that hellhole!
Jeff Jarvis@klonick Oh, that's where the Houlihan's used to be.
sergio_101 has moved!@klonick Id go get an orange Julius
@klonick oh I would SO go to Music+. “ believe in us, we’re music plus”
Le Chevalier@klonick That "Going Out of Business Sale!" Sears that has only empty shelves and a couple of original "Space Jam" tank tops...
Studio Beau
Lucius Annaeus Seneca@klonick
Plenty of haters, scammers and peddlers there. Very little meaningful "free speech". It's starting to feel like MySpace...
Plenty of haters, scammers and peddlers there. Very little meaningful "free speech". It's starting to feel like MySpace...
Ironing Man@klonick Don't eat the candles. On the other hand, the cookies burn surprisingly well.
British Tech Guru@klonick I found the perfect photo for this. Forest Acres Mall in Columbia, SC. It has been dead for years with 2 stores keeping it open.
DeRochier@klonick Brilliantly put!
Ben Ptacek@klonick Felt the same. Experience was a popular shuffle that could be 20+ hours old and no one I follow or retweeted.
Go Sports & Music!@klonick Yeah the mall really lost its cool when they removed the news stands and allowed the neo nazi’s, and the fake doctors back in. Not my kind of party anymore.
Lone Skum
Jennifer Reitman@klonick feels a lot like when the last anchor store was a Corvettes that was picked over with just a few scraps left on the shelves.
Leo Fosse on Mastodon@klonick
I went to high school with Mrs. Fields, nee Sivyer. She was a hottie.
I went to high school with Mrs. Fields, nee Sivyer. She was a hottie.
D P Nauton@klonick Do they still have a functioning Cinnabon over there? The least they could do is make the place smell nice, even though you can see rats walking around unabashedly.
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@klonick I took a year off and returned to Twit briefly last September. What struck me was the inanity. Couldn't believe I spent so many years immersed in that nonsense.
Kevin Richert@klonick These days, I’m only dropping in for a Cinnabon.
Nathan Carpenter@klonick don't forget the GNC quack nutritional supplement stores!
Mike Fraser@klonick All I see are, adds, tweeters with 100k followers and reporters. A lot of the personal connections are gone or silent.
🌪 MikeMathia 📡And the pretzel place. There's always a pretzel place.
Fred Dyer@klonick I had the same reaction
wiredog@klonick @dandrezner On the bright side if you can smell Yankee Candle you haven’t got Covid.
The Cat Herder
AndyHNow I want a chocolate chip cookie.
Phillip Hallam-Baker@klonick Wait till YouTubers start making the 'abandoned places' videos.
GlenG🌻 - Support Ukraine@klonick Sounds right. Tesla’s using a dying mall parking lot for its excess cars near my home. On the other side they’re actually filming Dawn of the Dead. All fitting.
jakenuts@klonick popup Nazi Fashion booths everywhere
Eilene@klonick
and Cinnabon
and Cinnabon
Jeff@klonick hanging on Twitter like Spencer gifts