Chris MessinaMy legacy check is gone.
I'm done with Twitter.
Josh, or whatever@chrismessina Come on in, the water's fine here at #mastodon :)
@josh Oh, I've been here since 2017! :) It's not the same โ but it has potential!
Chris Silverman ๐ป@chrismessina what a sign of the times.
St Joan ๐of Mastodon:๐ฆ SaintI've always thought of clocks as a sign of the times..
Dan Rowden@chrismessina whatโs your anticipated future for Twitter vs Mastodon? Do you think people will start moving away from Twitter?
@danr I hope so, but I don't see a reason for them to โ yet.
I've lost trust with the platform (which is saying a lot, considering Twitter's history) and it just doesn't deserve my attention when there are other more genuine initiatives underway. Mastodon is one, T2 is another, and even Bluesky is interesting.
I dunno, there's a new sherif in Twitter Town and I can't abide how he's laying down some new form of inscrutable law.
Matthias Bohlen@chrismessina @danr Starting this month, I also decided to give Mastodon a spin because of the general feeling of instability on Twitter.
Banning links to other social networks (Mastodon, Substack) was a big mistake from Twitter, I think.
When finally the bird was replaced by a dog, and even Twitter OAuth had intermittent failures, I was convinced that things were going downhill.
So unhappy because I have been on Twitter since 2009. Quite happy here now! ๐
Jen Strickland@chrismessina ๐ Whatโs T2? Iโve been heads down for a bit. @danr
@listening @danr check out t2.social. Lemme know if you'd like an invite!
@chrismessina Ahah! Yes, please & thank you!
@chrismessina @listening I would love one if you have any spare! (applied to their waitlist last week)
@chrismessina @danr Thank you!
@chrismessina Looks like itโs not working :/
@danr ok โ try again! https://t2.social/i/50d8ac37955c
Tomas ๐พ@chrismessina @danr Hijacked this one, as there's many spots left. Thanks, Chris!
Dennis Jackson@chrismessina I thought legacy checks were dropping on 04/20.
@kioken so did I. Not sure why I got to jump the line... ๐ค
Chris Leboe@chrismessina Maybe if you had contributed something meaningful to the Twitter experienโฆ
๐ฌ Nevermind.
GJ Groothedde ๐ช๐บ@chrismessina Incredible.
Patrick H. Lauke@chrismessina *this* was your last straw? hmmm
@patrick_h_lauke it was a culmination of six months of chicanery.
The metaphor of the last straw refers to a breaking point, not an isolated cause.
@chrismessina but that's exactly the point. it's often telling what the one thing that finally makes a person decide to pack it in is. the fact that it's "my blue tick is gone" rather than, say, "right-wing/neonazi accounts are now reinstated with open arms" or similar is, perhaps, telling... anyway, you do you...
Richard@patrick_h_lauke I had the same reaction. I will never understand why Musk actively and publicly courting neonazis and bigots to come to the site wasn't a heavy enough straw for so many people.
@richard_merren it's only when the face-eating leopard started nibbling at his face that he'd had enough. but hey ho...
Bart Decrem@chrismessina out w the old...
acm@chrismessina whatever works!
Amaya ๐น@chrismessina Imagine being so greedy you get the inventor of the hashtag to just up and quit Twitter. #F in the chat.
Nils 'Kojote' Hitze@chrismessina good to have you here
Kirk McElhearn@chrismessina @craiggrannell Really? Thatโs the tipping point?
@mcelhearn @craiggrannell @mlabowicz it was arbitrary, but yes, just like 212 degrees is the boiling point of water:
I don't care about the checkmark but I can't stay on Twitter in good faith or in self-integrity with the chaotic and unclear direction of the platform or how its most prolific users are being abused.
I choose to apply my efforts elsewhere.
Unceremoniously losing my checkmark is the clearest indicator that I don't matter to the people in charge.
TC Won't Give In To Lies@chrismessina
Gutting staff + adding trolls + boosting hate + selling checkmarks = time to quit Twitter
Sounds like a good call.
Be sure to deactivate your account.
#TwitterMigration
@TCatInReality there's still value in the DMs for me but I won't be actively posting there anymore.
@chrismessina
So, you can trust the boy-king with your DMs?
So, you can trust the boy-king with your DMs?
Starry Starry Knight@chrismessina It's there but, like the content, they changed it to all white. You have to be in dark mode to make it pop...
KFClintonI was done with them in October when elmo came in and instantly started to support nazis and said he was all in for DeathSantis 24.
A missing checkmark in April is good too...
@KFClinton we all have our reasons! ๐๐ป
Michael Labowicz@chrismessina losing the checkbox was a bridge too far? ๐๐๐
@mlabowicz no, it was the straw that broke my camel's back.
I don't care about the checkmark but I can't stay on Twitter in good faith or in self-integrity with the chaotic and unclear direction of the platform or how its most prolific users are being abused.
I choose to apply my efforts elsewhere.
@chrismessina I left twitter back in November 22, I could see the writing on the wall even back then
Ben Ward@chrismessina Elon Musk just invented the hashtag.
@benward I wouldn't doubt that he wouldn't take credit eventually
KBSez โ
Yeah, you'll be happier here... less nazis and rambling morons who claim they invented electric cars and rockets when they didn't.
mtsw@chrismessina welcome to The Good Site
Dick Hardt 
@chrismessina are you going to take your #hashtags with you? :)
@DickHardt they're already everywhere, which was the original intention! ๐ค
Canayjun
Lars Fosdal@chrismessina Welcome to the club.
Doctor M. Popular@chrismessina I'm still seeing my check. I hope it disappears soon, I don't want people thinking I'm sponsoring Elon's shitty vanity project.
@docpop wait until 4/20 and then let me know!
Roberto Baldwin@docpop @chrismessina same. I guess it goes away on 4/20
Maybe
Probably
But probably not
Black Metal Stu๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ@chrismessina
Good decision! I left the same moment it became clear that it will really be bought by a fascist and that was one of the 2 best social media related decisions I ever made beside leaving every single part of the services of Mark Zuckerberg. Please don't get this wrong, I definitely DON'T want to compare Musk and Zuckerberg I want to compare the toxicity of their networks.
Good decision! I left the same moment it became clear that it will really be bought by a fascist and that was one of the 2 best social media related decisions I ever made beside leaving every single part of the services of Mark Zuckerberg. Please don't get this wrong, I definitely DON'T want to compare Musk and Zuckerberg I want to compare the toxicity of their networks.
M Douglas Wray@chrismessina Welcome to Mastodon. I was done the instant I knew Musk was in charge.
IPng Networks@chrismessina @yawnbox well, thereโs always this. Welcome to the alternative *verse. We have coffee and bagels.
Evan Prodromou@chrismessina mine's still there. Do you think they're going alphabetically? Or maybe by when you registered? Or when you were verified?
Scott Anderson
Olav@evan
@chrismessina word is they can't even write a script so some poor soul is one by one manually unless the elongated muskrat calls
@chrismessina word is they can't even write a script so some poor soul is one by one manually unless the elongated muskrat calls
ACAB for Cutie 
@chrismessina glad to have you here! #welcome
ลรญฤk ๐ค Doctor.@chrismessina gimee logins ๐๐
If you don't want twitter anymore..
If you don't want twitter anymore..
Hippo ๐@chrismessina welcome to the Fedi! The hashtag is one of the glues that holds this federated system together, so you're in a good place ๐