On leaving the social network
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It's fascinating how some publications, corporations and famous
people are leaving Twitter because they don't want to share spaces
with extremists and racists (as argued by The Guardian, for
example). That can't be the actual reason because Twitter has always
been the home of extremists, racists, and weirdos of all kinds, even
before the Musk acquisition.

I started using Twitter in 2012 (although my account was made in
2009) and I always thought that one of Twitter's most interesting
idiosyncracies was that everyone was using it and it wasn't
necessarily an echo chamber: normalfags, weirdos, and extremists
somehow all shared a single space and could interact with each other
and argue and call each other dumbasses and that somehow wasn't a
problem back then. In fact, I'd say these diverse interactions gave
the site a great value.

My big problem with Twitter, then, was that this made it so
entertaining that it became addictive, and they knew it. People who
know me remember that I tried to leave it so many times without
success to try to reconquer the space it had colonized in my mind.
When I finally managed to escape in 2021 to the surprise of at least
one person, I felt pleased with myself, although I kinda miss some
of the people I met there.

I wanna make my point explicit: Twitter was always shit, even before
Musk. Twitter users always were idiots, they always published mostly
worthless trash, there always were extremists and racists, and
Twitter always seeked to mold the perception of reality of its
users. Or do you really not remember that Twitter always had the
reputation that it made people inexplicably angry? Therefore, the
reasons these people give to leave Twitter now, in 2024, are cheap
excuses.

Stop lying and posturing JUST once, please.