Sigh…
I do miss Twitter. It was a new and fresh kind of social media, and it had a long (mostly positive) run. When I decided to quit, I let it linger with crossposts from my new platforms for a few weeks. I stayed logged in on one browser, and checked it every few days.
It was an odd feeling to log out of Twitter just now. “Logging out” is not something I ever really do with anything. Usually I’m annoyed I have to “log back in” when a token expires.
But keeping that crossposting alive? Checking the DMs every few days? It was just prolonging the inevitable.
It’s gonna be 2-5 years before a consensus platform emerges. I still bet it’s going to be some evolved form of (semi-)federated ActivityPub multi-client thing. We’re going to see a bunch of platforms all interoperate, and another set of platforms go fully proprietary and isolate.
I’d bet there is a major social and cultural divide between the two “sides” of this.
But we’ll see.
Pour one out for the app I typed way to much into for a long long time. From now on I’m typing into my own things.
