Hoarse WhispererQuestion for all y’all.
Wondering how many folks here have made a clean break from Twitter vs. splitting time between both places… and if the latter, what the split is like. (eg here most, occasionally check there.)
CodieneC@Therealhoarse Made an account here & never bothered going back - it's not all that hard.
G. Willow Wilson@Therealhoarse Going announcements-only over there. Can't leave entirely because my job depends on it. Trying to cultivate a more diffuse online presence so the tectonic shifts don't leave me marooned anywhere.
Hunter Perrin@Therealhoarse I haven't deleted my Twitter accounts, but I don't ever go on them, and they only tell people to come find me here. So technically not a clean break, but about as close as you could get without actually pulling the plug.
Jenny
Helen Wheels@Therealhoarse left the bird site, never going back. I even find it annoying to see quoted tweets in other places. lol
aburtch@Therealhoarse It's been hard for me to make a clean break. Mostly because so many people/accounts I still like haven't moved over. So I've been splitting time. BUT the more time I spend in the Fediverse the more I appreciate the lack of ads, the genuine interaction and the general civility. Wish I could convince more people to switch. I've messaged a few people and the #1 reason I've heard is that it took them so long to build a following they can't bear to start over.
Wtime@Therealhoarse @aburtch Same here. It is just not as diverse here, nor do I see interesting back & forth discussions between informed & reasonable people w/differing POV. Many of the vital advocacy/organizing groups & journalists aren’t here either. And I miss the long threads of wickedly funny replies. Of course, Tw is rapidly dismantling these strengths & I wont give my $ to a fascist, so I keep trying here. It’s more pleasant, but I miss all of the above.
susanendres@aburtch @Therealhoarse ditto on Anson’s response. Tottering on the balance beam between both and dabbling on Spoutible. After years of fishing for inspiring minds, it’s a challenge putting more gas in the boat
Chris Nelder 🤘@aburtch @Therealhoarse Well boo-hoo for them. I spent more than a decade of nearly-daily engagement on Twitter to amass a following of nearly 22k, and turned my back on the platform (except for using it to promote @TransitionShow) in a heartbeat in November, because I have a strict policy of not keeping company with NAZIS. I'm absolutely horrified by how many people are willing to overlook that as long as they keep getting their goodies. Cowards!
Also: Great Tony playlist!
Finally: Hey now!
ᴚ uɐᗡ@chrisnelder @aburtch @Therealhoarse @TransitionShow well said Chris.
I was under 10k over there so it was even easier for me
Sharonbw stands with Minnesota@Therealhoarse
I made a clean break in November of last year. My experience here is much better and I’ve never looked back. I don’t boost RTs from Twitter.
I made a clean break in November of last year. My experience here is much better and I’ve never looked back. I don’t boost RTs from Twitter.
LL af R 
@Therealhoarse 99%here vs 01%twitter
veuve@ll_rain @Therealhoarse
Same. The real test for me was over the news about Russia last weekend. I did not check twitter and did not miss it.
Same. The real test for me was over the news about Russia last weekend. I did not check twitter and did not miss it.
aaron@Therealhoarse
Deleted my account in November and I could count my return visits on one hand, only for tweets I needed to read in full without logging in.
I've lost a few people I used to follow because they don't have another platform I also use but some of the twitter mirroring services have been useful for that.
Overall I'm not feeling a loss.
Joe@Therealhoarse I made an account here 6 months ago and deleted Twitter. Never went back. There are aspects of it that I miss, such as the presence of legit news outlets and sports insiders, but I’ve still never gone back!
Pusher Of Pixels (old account)@Therealhoarse mostly here. I follow Twitter bridges to see Twitter posts
Stork@Therealhoarse Pretty much only use twitter for live sports anymore.
Techronic9876@Therealhoarse I deleted Twitter app and updated my Twitter profile with mastodon info
But I still check Twitter every few days for a few minutes to see if anything interesting is happening since a lot of tech ppl are still exclusively there
But mastodon has absorbed 90% of my former Twitter usage
YnoT@Therealhoarse clean break, Hoarse.
Lorrie WHonestly, I was locked out of my Twitter.
Plus side of #Mastodon, is more peaceful and respectful conversation/DM's. Anxiety here is so much lower and appreciated. Post.news is just regurgitating anxiety Twitter IMHO
Other socials are just to sketchy.
P.S. I feel much safer here.
Elaine@Therealhoarse initially split between the 2. Deleted Twitter the end of January. I do miss some of the accounts I followed there ( who aren’t on Mastodon ) but definitely don’t miss the crazy ass people.
Amy@Therealhoarse I'd say 70/30 bird site and here. I'm a consumer, not a content provider. Sadly, most I follow are still scattered around other places but many are still on the bird site. I also get breaking news better there (tho admittedly I have to sift through a lot of garbage). And local stuff.
I do appreciate the troll-free civility, discourse, lack of ads, etc here on mastodon. Just wish I could also get breaking news and local news better. Yes, I've tried various hashtags for that.
Aztec4Life@Therealhoarse
Clean break. Deleted my bird account and don't miss it.
Clean break. Deleted my bird account and don't miss it.
bobocubedClean break.
Gabrielle@Therealhoarse on mastodon daily. check twitter on and off but it's not "home" to me anymore. also on counter social but mastodon is my main right now.
@Therealhoarse Clean break! I only very occasionally check on Twitter to make sure I haven’t been sneakily followed by bot accounts (was happening last year without my permission, despite my settings).
SMChalut@Therealhoarse The day you set up your Mastodon account, I did the same. I loved Mastodon right off. For a few weeks, before I deleted my account, I’d check out the bird site, but it’s ugly, angry, and often vile; my mood actually suffered. I won’t read a tweet. Mastodon culture is respectful, uplifting and a forum for all interests. Mastodon is home. Let your followers go Hoarse; I miss you
Jumahl@Therealhoarse
I was going to wait until it became totally insufferable but was permanently banned way before that happened. I could still read post but not reply or like. I miss my many twitter friends but I don’t miss the shot show twitter has become.
I was going to wait until it became totally insufferable but was permanently banned way before that happened. I could still read post but not reply or like. I miss my many twitter friends but I don’t miss the shot show twitter has become.
SpicewallaI never had a twitter account, I just lurked by bookmarking specific people and followed their posts via nitter. When they create masto accounts I follow them here and then delete their nitter bookmark
Evidently some of them have let their masto accounts grow fallow and gone back to twitter (or elsewhere?), so I've kind of lost them
Most days I still load up a handful of my nitter bookmarks for the ones who never left. But masto is my daily driver now
Dave Mitchell@Therealhoarse Clean break. Now I check in here and on Post, about 50/50.
Sober-Wan Kenobi@Therealhoarse clean break 4/2022
Trendar@Therealhoarse
I’m 75%+ here, and I only go to the dead bird site to check a few good follows who don’t have accounts here. That number may change to almost 100% after Blue Check Day.
I’m 75%+ here, and I only go to the dead bird site to check a few good follows who don’t have accounts here. That number may change to almost 100% after Blue Check Day.
Bonnie Schwertner@Therealhoarse Clean break.
Myrha Cheval 🦆@Therealhoarse Complete break. I deactivated my bird-site acc't last November just after Elmo took over and began wrecking the place.
Erica Dreabit@Therealhoarse I didn't delete my Twitter account yet, but I never use the app or log in any more. I'll occasionally follow a link to Twitter from somewhere else, but only anonymously in a browser.
Petey 🇨🇦@Therealhoarse Clean break. Any time supporting Musk’s Twitter is time supporting a lot of things I’m against.
@Therealhoarse Left Twitter as soon as it became apparent Musk was acquiring it. Still have an account parked over there, but haven’t signed in since then. I wish some of my favorites were here too, but figure it will happen eventually. Also now have a Spoutible account.
Anson@Therealhoarse my plan was to give Mastodon a try and see if it works for me. But I quickly found everything I *originally* joined the bird site for, here. So then I thought I would check in over there once a week. But I kept forgetting. Unless I inadvertently click a link that takes me there, I don’t go back.
But I have been following you here in case you decide to post something.
But I have been following you here in case you decide to post something.
Sam Minter@Therealhoarse Did a clean break as soon as Twitter killed Tweetbot (and the other 3P clients). Nothing there since then except updating my profile and making last posts to point here.
Brian Lawson
Gay Diogenes@Therealhoarse I just joined Mastodon today. It'll take me some time, I'm sure, but I like the feel of it so far... I just need to find my "peeps". I'm looking for gently snarky progressives, D&D folks, Artists, and... huh. That's most of them.
Mark Steven Long@Therealhoarse
Split, with more time on Twit, although that will probably change as Twit continues to decay.
Split, with more time on Twit, although that will probably change as Twit continues to decay.
Benblades@Therealhoarse clean break
Yet Water Was 
@Therealhoarse I am 100% gone from Twitter, and only check in on FB to see what my mom's up to.
C. R. Collins 🌳 🐸I maintain my account so the name isn't free for scammers & update my pinned post whenever I release a new book. My Mastodon ID & website are in my bio if anyone wants to find me. I was invisible there before Musk, so the change hasn't hurt me like other folks. I have a lot less followers here but much more engagement and good conversations. I pop on Twitter maybe once a day to read accounts that interest me.
Maryann Long@Therealhoarse
I moved over here in December but kept my Twitter account, checked it less and less, until yesterday when I deactivated it.
I moved over here in December but kept my Twitter account, checked it less and less, until yesterday when I deactivated it.
Edward Adams@Therealhoarse 99% here. I check Twitter once in the morning for people I follow who have not yet wised up to moving to Mastodon.
MessengerFlats@Therealhoarse It was abandonment in place. Too tired of the possibility of the crap that was to come.
Ian Hecht 🇨🇦@Therealhoarse Pretty clean break. Other than people sending me links to stuff over there, I'm exclusively here. I thought it'd be harder, as Twitter was my primary social network, going back to 2008. I don't miss it as much as I feared.
Bryan S.@Therealhoarse I left Twitter to come here, but it turns out that now I just have yet another social media platform. It's a shitshow, but some really interesting friends and acquaintances are there, not here. I've reverted and now I'm 2/3, 1/3 here.
@Therealhoarse
I quit. Sometimes I miss it, but not a lot.
I quit. Sometimes I miss it, but not a lot.
Jeri Dansky@Therealhoarse Clean break. I deleted my Twitter account back in December.
(OK, maybe 99.5% here, since I do read the tweets from a few people — like my brother — via bird.makeup, which sends the tweets to my Mastodon feed.)
Infrogmation@Therealhoarse
I gradually phased out my twitter and ramped up on Mastodon in November & December. (I'm also on fb and sometimes a few other places, but by about New Year was on Mastodon more than the rest combined).
My twitter posts and interactions became nothing but posting about the trash Elno has been doing and urging those who didn't have evacuation plans to do so.
I was one of the accounts "permanently" blocked on 16 December (I didn't post that jet tracker thing Elno was using as an excuse, but did have my Mastodon handle and link in my header bio, which might have been enough to be de-twitted at the time). Account was restored the next day, but I'd already deleted the ap from my iphone.
So I go there on purpose on my lap top irregularly, but not something I look at just to kill a bit of time.
SusiAnsujali@Therealhoarse
I’m willing to make a break, have been for over half a year, really, and am just waiting to see where my Tweeps mainly end up.
Since I have half US and half German follows / followers that might mean I’ll have to split between two alternatives.
But since most have not migrated or are not active on their chosen alternative, I’m still spending 90% on Twitter.
Hoping Elon’s stupid TwitterBlue move in April will be an accelerant for decisions.
Almost clean break. I deleted the app and my account.
I do occasionally look at specific linked tweets on the web, but not on a regular basis.
Maiden of Utrecht@Therealhoarse I set up an account here a few months back and more recently one at Spoutible but it’s been hard it finding a lot of people (you were an exception) and I haven’t been spending enough time on either account to really get them “going”. So I do keep getting sucked back to Twitville. Old habits die hard. That said, the bottom really is starting to drop out of that place. I really need to make an effort to just start using this one more.