When I found I used it too much, the same day I went to the web-app to write a goodbye-tweet, but Twitter denied me acces, unless I'd give it my phone number. So I left anyway.
Phone numbers and emails have become prerequisites for joining social media nowadays.
I decided that I don't like it and I don't need it.
(It was after about a week of trying it out, in the public beta phase, when Twitter was really new)
Didn't really use it because the scientific and medical misinformation going around on the site was tiring to see. Then Elon Musk bought it and I could see the enshittification coming up. Put up a link to my new Mastodon account, waited like a month and then downloaded my data and deleted my account.
I'm still on Mastodon. Won't even look at Bluesky before they show they're serious about making it decentralised. And even if that happens, I'll still brace for the potential Google Talk 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Too many trolls making it nearly impossible to have a reasonable discussion or debate on pretty much any topic. And the lack of consistency in the application of the site's rules.
I only use it for getting updates on public transport, but now apparently I made my account when I was under 13 and it's now completely locked. Despite being over a decade older they won't accept my ID to reopen and no way will I make another account.
Abusive moderators who monopolize big communities.This is happening a little bit here too, but at least there is no monopoly and the power of the federation allows us to navigate everywhere.
Never got that into it in the first place but the one thing that really turned me off is it felt like talking over billions of other voices who are a lot louder and more interesting.
I spent too much time on there before musk acquired it. After that, I put an app timer on to limit it to 15min a day, then down to 10. Now I go weeks at a time without opening it. The experience has changed greatly. It's a shitty buggy experience where the opinions of the dumbest people on earth are served to me with high priority. Pass.
x
Because X gon' give it to ya and I do not consent.
i'll let you know once i 'leave'...
i actually would have to 'join' the site, first, though. and that ain't gonna happen.
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