As you know, I maintain no social media presence out of Dreamwidth, because I've been cyberbullied to hell and back and I'm asking for more trouble if I roll up on Twitter, Tumblr, etc. "Just block people" is a non-solution because I already have to play whackamole with people making fake accounts HERE ON DREAMWIDTH [this has happened more than once], never mind this kind of shit on other sites. Even if I hadn't dealt with that kind of shit, though, I have concerns about data mining and the discussion format of Twitter is headache-inducing for me. [140 characters? I can barely make a comment that isn't at least 140 words, never mind 140 characters]
Having said that, I know people who do use Twitter who are now in the process of leaving because Elon Musk, and I feel bad for them. It reminds me of when I used to have an LJ back in the day [different username, not saying what] and I left in 2009 because the way LJ was handling censorship of fanfic writers while still giving zero fucks about actual CSAM/CP accounts and shit left a bad, salty taste in my mouth. So I can't be like "haha Twitter was toxic as fuck and you shouldn't be there anyway." LJ was oftentimes toxic as fuck [it still paled by comparison to how Tumblr and Twitter evolved, but I would argue that the toxicity on certain LJ spaces gave birth to the toxicity of 10s social media sites] but LJ was still my home for the better part of a decade and losing that hurt, so I can imagine losing Twitter hurts for some people.
I hope that more folks will join DW, and I'm hoping that DW will mostly remain free of the problems that have plagued other social media sites. It helps that it's a different format - what you pointed out about Twitter's short-form format is spot-on.
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As you know, I maintain no social media presence out of Dreamwidth, because I've been cyberbullied to hell and back and I'm asking for more trouble if I roll up on Twitter, Tumblr, etc. "Just block people" is a non-solution because I already have to play whackamole with people making fake accounts HERE ON DREAMWIDTH [this has happened more than once], never mind this kind of shit on other sites. Even if I hadn't dealt with that kind of shit, though, I have concerns about data mining and the discussion format of Twitter is headache-inducing for me. [140 characters? I can barely make a comment that isn't at least 140 words, never mind 140 characters]
Having said that, I know people who do use Twitter who are now in the process of leaving because Elon Musk, and I feel bad for them. It reminds me of when I used to have an LJ back in the day [different username, not saying what] and I left in 2009 because the way LJ was handling censorship of fanfic writers while still giving zero fucks about actual CSAM/CP accounts and shit left a bad, salty taste in my mouth. So I can't be like "haha Twitter was toxic as fuck and you shouldn't be there anyway." LJ was oftentimes toxic as fuck [it still paled by comparison to how Tumblr and Twitter evolved, but I would argue that the toxicity on certain LJ spaces gave birth to the toxicity of 10s social media sites] but LJ was still my home for the better part of a decade and losing that hurt, so I can imagine losing Twitter hurts for some people.
I hope that more folks will join DW, and I'm hoping that DW will mostly remain free of the problems that have plagued other social media sites. It helps that it's a different format - what you pointed out about Twitter's short-form format is spot-on.