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Same. All the babies saying they "have" to stay there because of their ostensibly huge audiences all... had fewer followers than me.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby

I left X *because* I had a large following. People told me I was the reason they were staying on there, and I didn’t want to be responsible for 100k+ people sticking around for abuse, CSAM, and Nazis. Simple as that

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Catherine Winters

@catherinewinters.com

I mean, to be fair, those of us who left also had fewer followers than you. :)

Karl Magnacca

@kmagnacca.bsky.social

Also even if I wanted to go back, there's just...nobody there. There are literally only three of the people I follow who still post regularly.

HELL Kennedy

@helenkennedy.com

I had an unreasonably large following for some bizarre reason and it was quite a wrench to leave, but I couldn't stomach providing Elon with my shitty jokes for free. I ended up tripling my following here. I really think a lot of the twitter people who left BS just never figured out how to use it.

Brian Rinaldi

@remotesynthesis.com

I didn't have a huge following by comparison (~10k when I left), but it was important for my career. I have the kind of job where they ask how many followers you have in interviews. Having none can be disqualifying. If the moral decision were always the easy decision, we'd live in a different world

Anil Dash

@anildash.com

I get it — I have worked in DevRel for as long as the field has existed. But part of what I've done for a lot of folks is helped them create platforms that they can answer that question with, because *nobody* owns their followers anyway. We know they arbitrarily hurt people's reach.

Anil Dash

@anildash.com

So it's vital to have a career strategy that is resilient to these things, especially as devrel itself has been devalued and undermined in the LLM era of coding.

Willow

@rockshrimp.bsky.social

My following here is already bigger after a decade there. 🤷‍♀️ and I can control my own feed.

Willow

@rockshrimp.bsky.social

I don’t post on the internet to become famous I do it because my brain keeps having thoughts and if I don’t put them somewhere I will say them out loud to normies.

Exactly me

Exactly. And their idea is what, that you should endure insults and threats every day on Twitter so that … who exactly would benefit? Volunteering others to suffer is crazy.