On Whatever I'm talking about the name change of Twitter to X, what it means to me and others, and why I'm going to be on that site much less from now on.

(Also it means Mastodon will be a beneficiary, as probably a lot of things that would previously had been tweets will now become toots. Although I will have to remember to put a hashtag on the political stuff, I sometimes forget that)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

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@scalzi Well I'm glad you're going to be active here, though it's a shame that the primary reason is a toss up between 'watch capitalism become more awful' and 'billionaires destroy more things that we used to like'.

I'm at this point mostly a silent member of bluesky (read only mode, if you will), but on here I at least feel comfortable about posting!

@Oggie @scalzi invite for bluesky possible?