Sad to see people fleeing the sinking ship of XTwitter and just not even considering this as an option. It just has to be some other centralized, corporate-controlled place run by the same three shitty techbros who have decades of experience ruining the Internet for all of us.
I feel glad for the many friends I do have here, but it's one of those moments where it feels like being principled really does leave you lonelier than you deserve to be.
@silvereagle I'll admit I haven't fully given up Twitter yet, because I follow a lot of artists there. I'm just here and there at the same time.
The longer post lengths and the different clientele of this particular Mastodon instance means I can type out messages like this and I have greater confidence they'll be read and appreciated. In other words, this space feels better set up for civil discourse. I've tried doing similar on Twitter but it's more difficult.
@Intaglio_Dragon @silvereagle I’ve noticed a few artists I followed really tied their horse to the ship and refuse to leave it. For a few of them I do feel bad for because they did spend a lot of time building their profiles up. I just hope more of them come to their senses and make profiles elsewhere while they can still get the word out to maintain some of their following.
The ones who refuse to leave will need to come to terms with it sooner rather than later.
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