So every now and again you hear a Influencer or big name state that they need to get off or limit their social media use. Twitter being the usual suspect for a number a reasons. The endless scrolling addiction, the advertisements, Trending praying on what will get engagement the most that usually ends up being negative, and accidentally stumbling upon some of the most garbage takes so bad you think you were in a grocery store of filled with people who never got the memo that no one asked.

And I am still salty about being told the touch grass, espeically when I do, in fact, touch grass but that’s another story.

And I started to recongize this more and more during the (peak of the) pandemic, and noticed that maybe this isn't the best for my mental heath, and I could be using my time on more productive things. Even if that's just unplugging to not overwelm myself and get decent sleep for once. Though like with any addiction or depenancy problem... it isn't easy.

And then Musk bought twitter, and that was my breaking point.

“Wow Nemes, THAT was your breaking point? A billionaire gets control over a site? Really?”

“I'm Making A Callout Post On My Write (DOT) As”

See originally I was going to just be like *SNAP* “That's Corporate Captialism, Baby!” and leave it at that... and then Musk started basically having what many on the birb site have dubbed “A Forum Moderator Going Rogue Moment.” And I got to tell you I have never seen a more insecure man.

If Elon only ever just took over the site, fired the employees, and stuck to his “Free Speech Absolutism” then I'd just use the site less without making this blog post about it. Even Reinstating some hanious accounts is basically like “Well i guess I can't be too surprised.” But then he had to act like a drama queen in the last couple of months.

The man free speech absolutist until he recieves crititism, either by journalist or parody accounts. Outright bans the join mastodon account. Oh right, I'm sorry “John Mastodon”, because what's fact checking? 2022's never heard of it I guess.

Then takes that step further to change a policy about self promotion, banning the use of insta, facebook, and mastodon instance links, along with link aggrators. Yes this included “Truth social” but I think that was an attempt to save face. You know someone is lacking confidence when you're banning self promotion of your competition... even though twitter's whole thing was about microbloging updates to promote other things they're working on.

Like bro I can post art and photos on here but the quality isn't THAT good. I was acutally so frustraighted with this I actually made a youtube short with mobile app even thought I'm suppose to be on haitus:

https://youtube.com/shorts/O_DlM0Bn8Cw?feature=share

(Found out the hard way that you can not embed YouTube)

Note: Carrd.co is apparently fine as it counts as a site builder, and this has been rolled back apparently but the frustration is still justified.

And then there's his polls, which had been lowkey been binding for the most part. Even though they shouldn't be? These are basically referendendums and feeling the site's general vibe. So when Elon made a poll about stepping down, and it went a way he didn't like, he cites bots (A problem he was fixing btw) basically boosted the polls.

This should surprise no one. But this also leads to ask why he set that precedent to begin with? This isn't some kind of cooperative run site so it's not like even the previous polls meant anything. Oh but wait! there's more!

Now Elon has stated only people with twitter blue can vote in those polls of his. So okay we're not even going pretend that this isn't some kind of banana republic or one party state situtation going on. You just want to give the illusion to stand for some kind of democratic ideal, but really it's a puppet show just as “Hey look we're listening to the people.” (that pay 8 bucks month that’s better used on Netflix) Because that has to be the reason, other wise he had so many easy outs.

He can do whatever he want he owns the site. HE JUST REDIRECT THE WHOLE SITE TO A PICTURE THE SINK IF HE WANTED TO!

Like man, I spent time on Vid.me, and this JUST like that shit show. Except it's not small company of sillicon valley venture captialist with a hope and a prayer they get bought out. It's like what? One of the largest Social Media's. The world is seeing this go down live, and this time they're only staying to see how much long this dumpster fire burns.

I know I just ranted about Elon for several pargraphs but this isn't about him. Not REALLY. I mean I want to drive home the fact the person many seem to weirdly see as somekind of savior or something, has behaviour pretty unbecoming of that title. And that when I'm just baffled by this PR disaster. But it's bigger than my petty jabs at man too bigger to really care what I have to say. If he cares about what I have to say, that should say something him.

It's about the fact that sites policies can change at anytime, and when you have a ceo or lead that can be this flipant. We all know this for past years of other site changes *cough cough* Youtube, but I think really sinks in how voilitile any social media or networking site can be. And frankly even without Elon, underlying issues about how social media is designed and used has not changed and if anything, has been worse on the platform. (Part of me wonders if it's some kind fo money scheme at this point).

Trending regurally fills me with dread (and Psychic damage), the takes just keep getting worse and my art friends's dms are filled with bots. It sucked before, and it still sucks now. I would say public hate has been on the raise but that's been the case since 2016.

And with all that being said I have continued to use the site almost daily. I need to admit I have problem. I need to change.

“Hello my name is Nemes, and I'm a chronic internet user.”

Time to Log Off

I need to start making a commitment to being on twitter less. (and probably screen in general but... baby steps.) More spefically, I basically just want to post the youtube videos, and this blog and that it. I'll still interact with friends, but I really need to cut down my time on bird site, hell site, or whatever you want to call it. I might have to find a way to heavily filter my timeline or take the timeline off site.

As I've mentioned before I'm going to be around on the Mastodon Canada and this blog, Rambles Well Written. I still don't want my time on mastodon to be a repeat of twitter but expect me to be more active on there in general. I might also think about promoting else where for when twitter become unusable for most people, or it just goes down. For now I just need to get though the end of the year...

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I honestly I have no good way to end this post I just wanted to rant, and tell myself to stop using twitter so often.

#Twitter #Elon #TwitterMigration

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