The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

They're leaving because it's become absolutely head-wrecking and because the owner is not only the biggest but also the loudest loser on the planet and because they prefer a place that they don't have to constantly curate in order for it to be simply usable...? There's no end of reasons before jumping to "They're snowflakes!"

[astfgyl]

I honestly think they're all narcissists to the extent that they think that anyone who disagrees must be of a lower intellect and how dare they call anything out and now there are more calling them out than agreeing they can't handle it. There's a fucking block button but that's not enough because other people will still be able to see that somebody disagreed with them. Definitely narcissism and definitely weak and the state of them in fact thinking about it and being somewhat of a narcissist myself, I have come to the conclusion that these people are the weakest possible intellects because they are so fragile. They deserve to live in the echo chamber, unchallenged forever.

like how dare they

The Guardian

          

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It's not the fact of disagreeing so much as it is the manner of it. I mean, the kind of male who arse licks your Elon Musks or Andrew Tates do tend to be fawning, sycophantic morons, and that's the majority of blue tick accounts, but their manner of disagreeing amounts to "You're the stupidest fuck I've ever known, I saw Huberman on Rogan so here's how I know more than you." Your arguments for staying on 'X' while there is competition that does what certain people are looking for better than it does are weak af, sorry.

[astfgyl]

No you're wrong here. I'm not making an argument for staying on twitter at all, I'm just calling out the shitty pseudo intellectual angle of it being beneath people who think that they're something super as long as everyone keeps telling them they are.

It's as weak as shit. Weak intellects require the agreement of the lesser folk to validate themselves. Why won't their opinion or argument stand up to the criticism of the supposedly and presumably weak folk then, if it's so profound?

Likes of Stephen King, one of my favourite authors but a political retard would be a prime example but do you think for a minute that I'd give a flying fuck about his politics when I'm reading his books? Well, no is the answer. No is the answer because that's retarded and off he can go to the echo chamber where everyone agrees with his political takes even though it has fuck all to do with the reason people like him at all in the first place.

He has a fucked up looking head on him as well.

Just look at how much you disagree with me and yet I haven't once been annoyed by a single thing you've said as many times as I've thought the opposite.

Well maybe a few times, but we are adults and not spoilt children who can't handle the idea of being wrong.

Blue-sky and Truth social and the myriad of even weaker alternatives are for people who aren't grown up enough to handle a bit of disagreement.

For example, how bad would this board be if I simply quoted your post and said how great and on point it was?

[ochoill]

I'd rather enjoy myself with friends anywhere online than revel in the misery of twitter.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

You do know Bluesky is 5 years old and was started inside Twitter, right? In that regard, in initial intent at least, it's nothing like Truth Social or Gab. And again, re echo chambers, 'X' is now a chamber rigged in one very pronounced direction, there's simply no denying that. Maybe it was oriented the other direction before, but not nearly to the same algorithmic extent. If people think quitting is giving the finger to Musk they should go for it, fuck him. I'm on there but I'd be grand with it going the way of MySpace or Bebo. The pushback against folk quitting all sounds a little too motivated for my liking. Or all that in just two words: Fuck Musk.

Now, beer time!

[astfgyl]

I'd rather enjoy myself with friends anywhere online than revel in the misery of twitter.

Pure soy lol

[Ollkiller]

So, they're leaving because they think that too many people of a lower intellect are interacting on their posts?

It's hurting their narcissism, like?

I think it's more the case that people are just getting sick of it. It used to be OK but now is a vile social media interface. I have an account just so I can see a twitter post that's linked somewhere. Tbh ill probably delete is soon.

[astfgyl]

So, they're leaving because they think that too many people of a lower intellect are interacting on their posts?

It's hurting their narcissism, like?

I think it's more the case that people are just getting sick of it. It used to be OK but now is a vile social media interface. I have an account just so I can see a twitter post that's linked somewhere. Tbh ill probably delete is soon.

Is it because of your political leanings, by any chance?

[Ollkiller]

So, they're leaving because they think that too many people of a lower intellect are interacting on their posts?

It's hurting their narcissism, like?

I think it's more the case that people are just getting sick of it. It used to be OK but now is a vile social media interface. I have an account just so I can see a twitter post that's linked somewhere. Tbh ill probably delete is soon.

Is it because of your political leanings, by any chance?

It isn't at all. It's the level of virtuol that is on the site. Like there's hate spreading everywhere online now. Bit like road rage where people lose their shit in a car, they do the same online. I just see any merit in twitter anymore if every thread descends into a left vs right bollocks argument.

That's another thing altogether. Everything is now framed left or right. What happened to right or wrong.

[astfgyl]

Lol I said that about a year ago and all I got was called out for saying it's only right or wrong rather than directional..

I could find thousands of threads on twitter from thousands of accounts that aren't political at all. There's nobody forcing anyone to read political shite if they don't want to, that's all simply in people's heads.

Like absolutely it's a cesspit if I want it to be but equally it isn't at the exact same time if I want it like that. If I see stuff that annoys me I can just hit the 3 dots menu on every single tweet I'm not interested in and pick the "I'm not interested in this" option.

I have a telly. I don't go looking at it with the intention of finding something I don't want to watch, do I?

Seems to me to be a very childish way to look at the whole thing, to expect it to just automatically say the things I like hearing.

[Ollkiller]

Oh lord above. I never expect it to say the things I like. I fucking hate twitter. Is that enough of a reason.

[Trev]

I got rid of it about a year ago, not missed at all. I only really used it for a few music, and football accounts, but every one just started getting spammed to bits with absolute shite. Tried blocking some for a while but there was always hundreds more to take their place

[astfgyl]

Oh lord above. I never expect it to say the things I like. I fucking hate twitter. Is that enough of a reason.

Yes that's a great reason not to go on it. Much like myself with tiktok, Instagram, Facebook and whatever else there is.

I got rid of it about a year ago, not missed at all. I only really used it for a few music, and football accounts, but every one just started getting spammed to bits with absolute shite. Tried blocking some for a while but there was always hundreds more to take their place

The porn bots are so problematic on there that I have my account set to private to get rid of them, but I've a great timeline on there now with stuff like mysteries, art, music, soccer galore and animals eating each other and no porn bots at all so I'm happy enough tipping away with that.

I just think this whole thing of people throwing theirs toys out of the pram because trump won or there's pro trump stuff on there is silly because it's so easy get rid of all that shit from one's feed.

I'm not in defence of twitter at all like what would I care if people used it or not? I give most of my Internet time on this site anyway but even here I don't get my knickers in a twist if people disagree. There's plenty of threads I can look at if I don't like a particular one

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I just think this whole thing of people throwing theirs toys out of the pram because trump won or there's pro trump stuff on there is silly because it's so easy get rid of all that shit from one's feed.

Musk put enormous and blatantly dishonest effort into Trump's victory. If large accounts (Guardian, King, etc.) who de facto generate revenue for Musk via their use of Twitter are pissed off enough with him over how he helped Trump win then (on top of the fact that he's shat on the entire user experience with both his blue tick shite and self-amplifying algorithm), why the hell would they not leave? You haven't given a single good reason and are essentially just repeating divisive blue tick discourse bollocks over it tbh.