Good for you. Also include Post, please. I've been on the waiting list for BlueSky, but the list seems to be longer than my life expectancy. And I've been done with the Zuckerborg for years.
For anyone who still needs a Bluesky code, welcome! It's not Peak Twitter, but it's pretty good and not a sewer. Also someone wrote a utility you can run to find your Twitter follows!
If you are not already on Blue Sky, Mastodon and Threads, please join. I know it's a pain to post on all three, but for now we don't know which will succeed. (Somebody needs to write an app to allow almost simultaneous posting on all three.)
Not arguing that Twitter and it's especially it's algorithm isn't garbage. However, I find the list feature where I can follow (at least in my personal opinion) individuals who provide straightforward dispassionate news as the best method to get the latest in ongoing crises in Israel/Ukraine etc. So at least (for me) weeding out the bad accounts still makes Twitter a tenable news source... until, at least, the best accounts matriculate to another site.
I am sad and angry for the entitled vandalism of what was once a pretty useful site. I still 'use' twitter to follow the feeds of people I value and trust but when I contemplate what the site has become I feel a little ambivalent about even doing that.
The NYT should partner with a tech company (Google? Microsoft?) to build an alt-Twitter. Threads is too instagrammy. But there seems to be room for a Twitter clone (for news and politics) that is less bad.
Good for you. Also include Post, please. I've been on the waiting list for BlueSky, but the list seems to be longer than my life expectancy. And I've been done with the Zuckerborg for years.
Send me a message on twitter @WillHayward and I'll send you a bsky invite
For anyone who still needs a Bluesky code, welcome! It's not Peak Twitter, but it's pretty good and not a sewer. Also someone wrote a utility you can run to find your Twitter follows!
Each code works once.
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People will have their favorites; I am rooting for Mastodon and I hope you will keep posting there.
Deleted my account and turned to substack as soon as he bought it. Haven't looked back.
Choose your enemy carefully before Elon it was owned by the government.
I didn’t realise you needed to tweet regularly to avoid expropriation. I guess I can just repost my announcement that I’ve left
I deactivated my account today. Feels good.
As long as I can find you here, I'm good. I have been seriously avoiding certain subjects since the attack, I see that was a good idea.
If you are not already on Blue Sky, Mastodon and Threads, please join. I know it's a pain to post on all three, but for now we don't know which will succeed. (Somebody needs to write an app to allow almost simultaneous posting on all three.)
I'm on BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/dandrezner.bsky.social), Mastodon (https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dandrezner), and Threads (https://www.threads.net/@realdandrezner). Also on Post: https://post.news/@/dandrezner
Not arguing that Twitter and it's especially it's algorithm isn't garbage. However, I find the list feature where I can follow (at least in my personal opinion) individuals who provide straightforward dispassionate news as the best method to get the latest in ongoing crises in Israel/Ukraine etc. So at least (for me) weeding out the bad accounts still makes Twitter a tenable news source... until, at least, the best accounts matriculate to another site.
Perhaps others would follow suite.
I haven't heard of needing to post regularly? I only posted once every few years, and it seemed fine?
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out 🚪
I am sad and angry for the entitled vandalism of what was once a pretty useful site. I still 'use' twitter to follow the feeds of people I value and trust but when I contemplate what the site has become I feel a little ambivalent about even doing that.
The NYT should partner with a tech company (Google? Microsoft?) to build an alt-Twitter. Threads is too instagrammy. But there seems to be room for a Twitter clone (for news and politics) that is less bad.