At what point does it stop being reasonable to donate free content that attracts eyeballs to web hosts addicted to censorship?
I left Twitter after a dozen years and many thousands of followers. You can, too.
Tweeting anything gets you closer to the day Twitter locks your account and destroys all you've built.
You won't even be able to view your follower or following lists at that point (and they're not in your data export), or any of the DMs you've sent or received over all those years.
I quit Twitter on March 20th and it was the best thing I’ve done in a long, long time.
The funny thing was that it starts sending you random notifications from people you don’t even follow or have the bell on for as a dark pattern to get you to come back.
What I realized is — like how I quit reading the news many years ago — everything on Twitter is pointless and ephemeral.
From one outrage cycle to the next, never relenting. Everyone always mad about some meaningless minutiae. If it was actually important it would surface by some other means so I never missed anything.
Then I’d go outside and everyone’s living their lives like Twitter doesn’t exist.
It’s easier to do than you think. Lock your account, turn off notifications for the whole app, and do literally anything else.
Ironically, I think this is both the sign to buy twitter and stop using it at the same time.
I no longer trust American companies to do right by the user the moment that their stock becomes public. When wall street is banging on the door for a quarterly result, most CEOs end up listening.
I'm not deleting my account just yet, but I'm wary from everything I've seen in the last decade.
Twitter owes you nothing. Don't use them.
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