GrayGooGirl 🏳️‍🌈
Watching Twitter fail into nothingness is like watching an old friend slowly lose their mental capacites. It hurts, this friend had some problems, but they helped spread the word about artists, independent journalists, mom and pop shops... Now they just sit in their recliner in the dark, wondering why their friends don't call anymore.
Feb 19, 2023 at 1:37pmFedilab
Show threadRevJeberFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl
Trump and Musk seem to be losing touch with reality at the same pace.
Show threadPamela EhnFeb 19, 2023
@jeber @graygoogirl they never were in touch with reality. They lived in worlds created by marketing.
Show threadAndrés Ortiz Massó 🐌🌍Feb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl
I realized Twitter was never my friend, specially these last years in which it became so toxic and wasted my time.
Show threadKumiokoFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl I feel the same way when I see what #wikipedia has become.
Show threadGideon MarcusFeb 20, 2023
@Kumioko @graygoogirl What has Wikipedia become? :(
Show threadKumiokoFeb 20, 2023
@gideonmarcus @graygoogirl in a word? A disgrace! It's unreliable and biased. The community is hostile and toxic and the @wikimedia foundation that runs it is selfish and incompetent. #wikipediasucks
Show threadGideon MarcusFeb 20, 2023
@Kumioko @graygoogirl That makes me sad. I know a lot of folks who are doing good work. Where in particular are you seeing issues? (I spend most of my time in spaceflight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Neopeius)
User:Neopeius - Wikipedia

Show threadKumiokoFeb 22, 2023
@gideonmarcus @graygoogirl for starters, I used to be a top editor and created hundreds of articles including some featured until a few abusive admins lied and violated policy to bully me out because I was improving Wikiproject united states and advocating the admins should have to follow the same rules as editors instead of be held to a lower standard.
Show threadKumiokoFeb 22, 2023
@gideonmarcus @graygoogirl now, as you can imagine, I don't hold wikipedia or its so called community of lying cultists in high regard.
Show threadJim LillicotchFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl
This is the best description I've heard yet, also the saddest
Show threadLilian EdwardsFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl *cries*
Show threadmʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickupFeb 19, 2023

@graygoogirl

> Watching #Twitter fail into nothingness is like ..

Sorry to put this in a different way but:
It feels like one of your (our) worst enemys is falling apart, and besides the fact that lot's of people "feel hurt" and get hurt, like we did before when we had to leave that place, it's like "now you see!".

@jeffjarvis
@mmasnick
#twitter #fediVerse #mastodon

Show threadQuincy PeckFeb 19, 2023
@bitpickup @graygoogirl @jeffjarvis @mmasnick I love this Zappa quote.
Show threadmʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickupFeb 19, 2023

@quincypeck
> I love this Zappa quote.

feel free to boost
😇

@graygoogirl @jeffjarvis @mmasnick

Show threadQuincy PeckFeb 19, 2023
@bitpickup @graygoogirl @jeffjarvis @mmasnick boosted!
Show threadJohn Mierau, Serving WorldsFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl sometimea I think it's more like watching a friend losing their mental faculties...and slowly listening more and more to that one racist transphobe who lives in the building...until they believe those lies so deploy they spread only hate where once they also spread knowledge and tolerance.
Show threadPatFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl I guess... My point of view is more that Twitter started that way, but long sense became a toxic friend that won't be missed.
Show threadRebochanFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl I’m just kinda tired of the lionization of Twitter, it was a harmful site that actively aided in the persecution of minorities before Musk took over, it’s just now it’s the main mission instead of simply a side hustle. People who benefited from it did so *in spite of that* and because of a lack of alternatives.
Show threadMario BenfieldFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl I had a bad feeling about Musk from the start: Maybe because he looked funny. After acquiring the company and then ship wrecking it on purpose he thought he could derail “American Thought”. His intended confusion, and disorder has unified communication and inoculated speech in general.
Show threadKhader Syed 🫶🦋Feb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl it's been a toxic sludge for over 6 or so years now. more noise than signal. I'm not sorry to see it fall apart.
Show threadtichoFeb 19, 2023

@graygoogirl Or perhaps that friend has already died, and the reanimated zombie that they became does not remember anything from their past, nor any old friends, and can't do anything than endanger everybody around them.

Continuing with the zombie trope and metaphor, it is still a difficult decision to shoot this zombie in the head, but it's the merciful thing to do.

Show threadWade WainioFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl I always thought twitter kinda sucked, but it is worse now so I have even less reason to use it all that much.
Show threadCarlRJFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl a slightly different take on your analogy - the good parts of Twitter were not Twitter itself (the name, logo, headquarters), it was the community that developed around it through conversations on Twitter. That community can move on to a new home and those conversations can continue. The old friend who loses their capacities is trapped inside a failing shell they cannot escape (stupid 21st century medicine) - this is different, unless you mostly just liked the name “Twitter”.
Show threadZeeFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl are you suggesting that people just watch someone lose their mental capacities?
Poor analogy
Show threadSmellbringerFeb 19, 2023
@graygoogirl God, that hits a bit too hard. Grandma went the same way, just wasting away.
Show threadImpossibleBeefTobinFeb 20, 2023
@graygoogirl more like watching a beloved older relative become a MAGA Trumpist who watches Fox News all day and reveals their previously hidden but always below the surface casual racism