Stephen King quits Twitter

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[angriest_girl]

I quit years ago. I hated how angry and annoyed it made me feel every time I looked at it.

I started on Threads when it first came out but lasted a few weeks and realised it was the same shit, different haircut. People are just so dramatic over the stupidest shit.

I signed up for Bluesky but I don’t think I will use it for same reasons above. I stopped reading news apps so I don’t want to be reading them by proxy and then be mad all the time about shit out of my control, nor do I want to hear every knitter’s hot take about test knitting or free patterns or whatever that week’s craft drama is.

[skyler_white_yo]

It’s becoming harder and harder to use any social media in a “harmless” way. Too much misinformation and disinformation being spread and the algorithms feel like they are geared toward showing users ragebait or clickbait.

[angriest_girl]

Yeah, even with Instagram - the only one I have now - I just want to look at cats and crafts but lately when I’m scrolling through reels I’m getting a lot of political stuff. I mark them as not interested but they just keep coming up. It’s a pain in the arse.

[anolinde]

I only look at the reels that appear mid-feed, and I don't scroll beyond them (I think it's usually 4-6ish), but I've been able to train the algorithm by refusing to open anything other than cat content lol. I've even gotten it to focus mostly on kittens by engaging more with those videos. If I feel like it's veering too far off even in terms of cat content (eg, if it's showing me more older cats and not enough kittens), I retrain it by completely ignoring anything other than exactly what I want to see.

I don't use the interested/not interested buttons, though. Annoying that Instagram seems to just ignore them!

[toshi_hakari]

I would like to completely move to Bluesky, but a lot of fan artists and Japanese company accounts are still on there :(

[ichigobanana]

Same. So many official accounts (artists etc.) haven't moved elsewhere yet and Twitter still has the best working notifications to like Instagram or whatever. As long as those post their updates on Twitter and nowhere else (in text form), I don't see myself moving either, as much as I'd love to :( I have a Bluesky account and never use it because I have a whole lot of 1 mutual there, I don't even know how to start finding everyone else on there lol

[toshi_hakari]

More and more people are moving to BlueSky, but there's still so many not there and I just hate having to rebuild from scratch...

[deerlike]

I wish more fanartists would move to pixiv!

[mzgrottesca]

Leaving twitter and leaving Maine... for Florida of all places! I only recently found out he lives in Florida pretty much exclusively these days and it like, shattered my illusions haha. And then there's me, considering moving to Maine to escape my red state...

[saturdaysinbed]

southern maine is great. you'll get a little trumpy the further you get towards lewiston/auburn and north of there but mainers are genuinely wonderful people.

[lysblack]

talking about bluesky, does anyone know a good/safe way to import folloing accounts from twitter? i remember that an ontd member mentioned its possibility.

[tonicol]

I haven't tried it but I saw this last night

Fyi there is a chrome plugin called sky follower bridge that helped me find 100s of accounts on bluesky that I follow here on twitter. Pretty useful if you’re planning on leaving this hell site.
- Fuck You I Quit (@fuckyouiquit) November 13, 2024

[lysblack]

thank you!

[you_hermit_crab]

I tried it, and it's pretty helpful, but it did give me some really funny suggestions based on people who have the same Bluesky handle as someone else on Twitter lol.

[m14mouse]

I think so? I didn't post and just use it to follow some artists, a tea business and a few friends. (I do the same with Facebook) I haven't gotten a notification in forever. So, I might have been the ones that got deleted during their purge.

I am not that invested to find out if I still have one or not.