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 serious question John and I realise I am late to the party with this. Why Bluesky? I get you are having fun there but if the idea is to start avoiding cryptobros and incels then Bluesky is an odd choice for that. On a related note the demise of Twitter shows that an Internet 'town square' is most likely a public good and should be managed as such.
@skreammast I have run into almost no cryptoboys or incels there. Perhaps you are thinking of Nostr.