Going back to the former Twitter these days feels a little like going back to your old high school once you've graduated; everything is familiar but it's not your place anymore, and you don't necessarily want to spend more time there than you have to.
This is not to disparage people who are still using it as their primary social media outlet (I still post career news/updates there). But I am glad it's no longer the focus of my social media life. There are other places to be.
Like here! Hello!
@scalzi There are so many people whose thoughts I really appreciate who either haven't left Twitter yet, or have gone over to Bluesky or Threads.
It sucks that I won't be able to read and interact with those people anymore, but I'm slowly building up a new network here on Mastodon.
So yeah, I look back at Twitter with a mix of nostalgia and grief.
@RinguPingu @scalzi apparently Threads are based on ActivityPub, thus maybe they will integrate someday...
BlueSky has its own "distributed-protocol", but maybe some day, they also will integrate - or Mastodon engine "evolve" into that.
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