Twitter C/D

It's on Bluesky

rip

I finally quite "X" the other day.

I don't know why I stuck around so long. Half of it was just having a random place to look at chatter/news and the other half were the music related accounts that are still there and posting.

But I just kept falling into the comments on political posts and obv "comments" everywhere are pretty bad, X was sinking to incredible new lows that were really depressing me.

I never responded or interracted, but I just had to kill the ability to fulfill the morbid urge to see what horrible people on X were discussing.

I looked at my own posts and saw just how little traction any of them every got. I never made a post and included like 16 hashtags to try to get attention. All I know is that I could share or repost something on X and get no traction, post the same thing on Facebook and kick off a lively discussion amongst interesting people.

Facebook obviously sucks too and I'd love to replace it, but my community there is very strong. What I hate the most is anyting suggested and the reels. the endless reels, which I never asked for but I can't help but to click on.

anyway, going to give blueksy more of a try.

It was really fun when you'd get a Bulgarian banquet hall or two card tables in Liberia in a shack with three walls, accompanied by images of actual local foods and people enjoying them. Then it would turn around and give you a KFC in Peoria or some gyros shop in Glasgow or something. Gyros everywhere. So much gyros in this world, and I love gyros, but wow. Sometimes almost certainly not a restaurant. Local health department? Telephone store? Just a picture of a blank wall?

Referring to Random Restaurant Bot, there. Point being, it was a good and worthwhile account that I always looked forward to reading.

nice of someone to port lag∞n's restaurant bot to bluesky, but if bsky becomes monetizable we have to come after this new guy

I just kept falling into the comments on political posts and obv "comments" everywhere are pretty bad, X was sinking to incredible new lows that were really depressing me.

I never responded or interracted, but I just had to kill the ability to fulfill the morbid urge to see what horrible people on X were discussing.

Absolutely why I had to stop using twitter, finally, as an act of self-care.

imma follow you on bsky now dan

Oh no, I thought it was lagoon’s :(

The first time I saw a body of a Palestinian is the first time I thought about quitting. Reading and collating matter on it (as I do with many things via twitter) as I have is enough.

Many people have not been as careful; they have seen a lot of videos. What the effects will be are not yet clear, and won't be for a while.

(This is more widely on social media not just twitter)

Don’t forget all my posts are exclusively available at https://jklol.net/posts.html

yea that's definitely a problem for me too, a lot of the good folks on Twitter who hadn't left yet are posting about the Israel/Palestine conflict nonstop, and obviously that stuff is very important and needs to be exposed but it just depresses me so much to see it. I go on there for fun takes about LeBron James and videos from the Da Vinki twins, I don't really want to see the horrors of war alongside it

huge fan of random restaurant and yes it's on bluesky, currently the only account i follow haha

I'm not opposed to people posting thoughtfully about what's going on, but soon as you hit the comments it's gotten noticeable worse and more offensive.

i'm here https://bsky.app/profile/danergy.bsky.social

brb adding silby's posts to a rss notifier

"remarks overheard in a random restaurant"

I have curated my Twit/X thing well enough so that I don’t see much objectionable/disturbing stuff.

i just don't like its candy-like negative addiction effect, and the way you can lose a lot of time there without realizing.

esp doomscrolling

Have curated it carefully but I want to keep with the detail in the conflict, which has meant that some imagery you don't necessarily want to see slipping through.

Though it's not a big enough deal to switch off.

Many others have absorbed an insane amount of images.

Oh no, I thought it was lagoon’s :(

― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, December 6, 2023 10:26 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

its fine i dont mind at least they credited me

maybe ill make an account that puts silbys posts on bluesky

I’ll sue you!!

i will make a bot tracking your private jet

yea I regret having spent so much time on there during Trump's presidency, just felt like Twitter specifically was really good at giving you a steady stream of bad news and terrifying opinion pieces which just wound up being really bad for my mental health. I remember something Chris Hayes said about it back then, the fact that Trump was in the news so much and was saying a new horrible thing every day was just bad for everybody, it's not really healthy for people to have that much politics in their lives

yup

I only signed up for Twitter around the time of the 2010 UK general election and it was good at helping me find new/interesting people, and establish a lot of new friendships, then between 2015-19 those friends became even more important. I am also forever thankful none of my immediate family found me or searched for me there.

xp same same

lagoon, silby, I’d like to represent both of you in the upcoming litigation, to ensure that both perspectives receive equal representation

i have a fake French name nobody can find me

Pierre Delecto

lagoon, silby, I’d like to represent both of you in the upcoming litigation, to ensure that both perspectives receive equal representation

― i'm really excited to learning more", *sunglasses fly onto dog.gif* (z_tbd), Wednesday, December 6, 2023 1:02 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

bot court in session

https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social/post/3kfvn6snlp32y

my twitter feed is still pretty good. bluesky is sleepy

me: German priest you have to stop. you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your bitch is too bad. they'll kill you

German priest: pic.twitter.com/vs1gf3yfjW

— ettingermentum (@ettingermentum) December 11, 2023

one thing I've noticed lately is whenever a tweet like that goes viral, it either turns out to be stolen, or someone steals it from them word for word and gets way more engagement

obviously that's always been the case but it seems to be happening way more now and I feel like it's because Twitter is no longer a place of honor, perhaps in part due to being bought out by a guy whose entire shtick is stealing memes and cropping out the name of whoever made it

I've always seen stolen tweets on twitter. Not to say it's happening more often now.

When Musk does it say it's clearly stolen because there is no way he could be intentionally funny

I want Musk to just tweet out "BOXCAR"

i was using Twitter a lot for sports updates a few weeks ago and this one account tweeted out an impressive factoid tweet that got decent engagement, then found the same tweet copied word for word without attribution a few minutes after with about the same engagement as the original, with lots of "wow, astute observation" responses.

plagiarism is a new career choice for me

could see twitter paying people for engagement leading to more stolen tweets

We are going to a tiered engagement system. Now instead of LOVE only, you get APPRECIATE, LIKE, LOVE, and REALLY LOVE. Also, there are negative versions - SOMEWHAT DISLIKE, DISLIKE, HATE, and HELL NO.

You will receive compensation in the amount of $0.04, $0.07, $0.09, $0.11, respectively, for appreciated posts, and you will be billed the same for any disliked posts. Invoices are due to be paid within ten days of receipt.

This is the most otm tweet I’ve ever seen from this guy. It’s going to be boiling piss for decades

it's almost always men who take this position. if your hosts take the time, money, and effort to host a party and request you dress a certain way, you either adhere to the dress code or not go to the party. *especially* if it's a wedding. that's their special day, not yours. https://t.co/lK1nijFtVv

— derek guy (@dieworkwear) December 11, 2023

fuck it the world still needs twitter

Vivek Ramaswamy appears to broadcast himself urinating during live X talk

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/11/vivek-ramaswamy-urinating-twitter-x-elon-musk-alex-jones

xp are you trying to say that's an insane opinion to have?

otm means “on the money”

i know what it means. the part i don't understand is the boiling piss thing. i thought the implication might be, "this is as close to otm as i've ever seen this guy, so think how much worse all is other tweets are"

you have to boil piss to sanitize it before drinking

i know what it means. the part i don't understand is the boiling piss thing. i thought the implication might be, "this is as close to otm as i've ever seen this guy, so think how much worse all is other tweets are"

Neanderthal otm