I can’t remember where I first read you, surely it was the LAT? So I followed you on Twitter and when you left Twitter I happily followed you here. I really enjoy the extra work we both do here in this communication. Thank you for that, I appreciate what you have to say in such a thoughtful way.
Well said. I also left Twitter years ago with much the same level of following (around 140,000 I think) and never looked back. Once in a while I hear someone say, "The people there don't miss you as much as you think"—which I always find a little weird, because I don't think they miss me at all!
As you said, most people aren't sitting around waiting for your next post. My decision to leave was about me and what I believed to be morally correct. Most of the time I honestly feel better not being there, so I don't have much FOMO about it.
It's funny, I think I was expecting to miss it a bit more than I did. I didn't really have a hard stop, either - just posted less and less, started peeking less and less, and now...
If you're leaving social media platforms because of bigots you might as well stay completely off social media. It's like people that say they're against child slavery and use iPhones that are built by child slaves. You're not protesting anything that doesn't exist in your daily lives in some fashion. That's what the muted words and block features are for.
I can’t remember where I first read you, surely it was the LAT? So I followed you on Twitter and when you left Twitter I happily followed you here. I really enjoy the extra work we both do here in this communication. Thank you for that, I appreciate what you have to say in such a thoughtful way.
Thank you!! One of the OG readers :)
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Well said. I also left Twitter years ago with much the same level of following (around 140,000 I think) and never looked back. Once in a while I hear someone say, "The people there don't miss you as much as you think"—which I always find a little weird, because I don't think they miss me at all!
As you said, most people aren't sitting around waiting for your next post. My decision to leave was about me and what I believed to be morally correct. Most of the time I honestly feel better not being there, so I don't have much FOMO about it.
It's funny, I think I was expecting to miss it a bit more than I did. I didn't really have a hard stop, either - just posted less and less, started peeking less and less, and now...
If you're leaving social media platforms because of bigots you might as well stay completely off social media. It's like people that say they're against child slavery and use iPhones that are built by child slaves. You're not protesting anything that doesn't exist in your daily lives in some fashion. That's what the muted words and block features are for.
Even calling it exile is anachronistic by now as Xitter is not the centre of the conversation anymore (it’s just one bar).
Also what did Navalny achieve by going back to Russia? That’s the extreme version of this. Who has been persuaded of his argument by his death?