The Guardian will no longer post on Twitter

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Uk newspaper The Guardian has announced it will no longer post on Twitter/X due to the website's toxicity since Elon Musk took over. They said the negatives outweigh the positives and cite "disturbing content" and the way the site handled the election as its final decision.

“This is something we have been considering for a while

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[crazylike_afox]

Bluesky is becoming a bit more active, which is nice.

Instagram's bullshit with showing me accounts I don't fuckin follow annoys the hell out of me so I try to spend as little time on their as possible.

[swissbeauty23]

Instagram has equally become awful about showing engagement bait. usually most of mine is cute animals.

[tifag]

I have Bluesky and Threads and they are both fine but activity is so quiet.

re: leaving twitter

[corruptionoflol]

mentally almost there. i stopped posting tweets but i do still check in what my friends say/write replies. literally zero people i know irl are on bsky so it's pretty much a ghost town there. like me+ the 10 random twitter leftist breadtube people i follow who dont post that much either

[blood_pressures]

lately my anxiety has been going through the roof and i've been thinking about cutting off social media. timelines (both x and instagram) are so overwhelming with tons of unnecessary information, bots, influences trying to sell you shit and ruin your self esteem, crazy internet drama, haters, it never stops.

[angriest_girl]

I saw a reel a few days ago about how a baby watching 90s children’s shows like Bear In The Blue House is much calmer than when watching current shows like Paw Patrol etc. because they are much slower and not so much of a sensory overload, so the baby only needs to watch one episode and is satisfied rather than wanting to stare at the screen for hours.

I think a similar thing happens with social media. No matter how much you curate so you’re just looking at dogs or cottagecore or whatever your thing is, it’s still a LOT of content in a short amount of time, and you’re still seeing a lot of things out of your reach, impacting your sense of self worth and your need to keep scrolling and looking, looking, looking.

[my_moloko]

I've seen multiple tiktoks of that. Parents put on 90s kids shows and their kids calm right down. When they put on modern shows, the kids act up again.

[angriest_girl]

I’m not surprised. When I turn the TV on it defaults to a channel that Paw Patrol is on most of the day and even those few seconds before I scramble to change it is enough to make me all aaaaggghhhh.

[juunanagou18]

i really need the japanese speakers of my favorite j-bands to move wholesale to bluesky, but they aren't budging. they're the main reason i'm still around, at this point. i'd hate the lose that, again, especially since i listen to older bands who either lost their english-speaking fandom long ago or never had one in the first place.