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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by istartedi on Monday January 30, @05:07AM (3 children)

    by istartedi (123) on Monday January 30, @05:07AM (#1289243) Journal

    Until about a year ago, I was a regular user of Twitter. Then I decided the toxicity outweighed the utility and went to Tuesdays only. The biggest utility was wildfire tracking--something that a lot of people are doing with WatchDuty, but the web site sucks compared to the app and I'm on a PC not a phone, dammit! Anyway, Musk's takeover made Twitter more about Musk and it's still toxic, just a different flavor of toxicity so I use it even less now--but I still monitor it. I've moved to Mastodon and don't restrict myself to Tuesdays, but find I post less than I did when I considered myself an active Twitter user. It could be that social media has had its day for me.

    FaceBook never appealed to me--I tried it for a few months, and found its ability to connect me with people from highschool to be creepy and not something I wanted. Instagram is very app oriented, and I don't use a "smart" phone so that was always out.

    I'm hoping that Mastodon reaches critical mass and that some 3rd party devs make it as useful as Twitter used to be. The killer app for Twitter was grass roots reporting from all over the world (it scooped the MSM on Arab Spring by about 3 days).

    It would be nice to get that magic back without it devolving in to endless arguments about race, conspiracy theories, etc. It used to be possible to screen that out on Twitter. The biggest nail in the coffin for me was not Musk, but a revision to the UI that took out the ability to localize trends. Local trends were usually interesting, and often about the aforementioned California fires that I was tracking. National trends are almost always hot garbage, and once the "stans" figured out how to "stan" trends, the utility of trends went hard in to the basement.

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  • (Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 01, @12:12PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 01, @12:12PM (#1289618) Homepage Journal

    ability to connect me with people from highschool to be creepy and not something I wanted

    At the same time, Facebook completely failed to connect me with those few people whom I thought I wanted to reconnect. I took that as an early hint that I didn't need Facebook in my life. Unless, all my friends that I wanted to contact did the same as I did. How many here registered with false names, then poisoned the well?

    --
    Don’t confuse the news with the truth.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12, @10:06AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12, @10:06AM (#1291386)

      At the same time, Facebook completely failed to connect me with those few people whom I thought I wanted to reconnect.

      Feelings not at all mutual, I take it? Imagine being a person with whom Runaway1956 wanted to "reconnect". So many lives are tragically ended by foolish firearm accidents.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13, @08:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 13, @08:01AM (#1291498)

        Down-modding like this, my dear ignoramous Runaway, is why none of your associates from the past want to "hook-up" with you again. You might have to move to Colorado.