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Always appreciated your content, Josh. It’s super-awesome!

Josh, you’ve always been such a genuine and compassionate human. Grateful to know you.

I appreciate you and admire this very much. Enjoying what feels so far like a healthy and engaged community here. Long may it continue.

Seriously! And this site is welcome to links. See lots of threads talking about interesting articles people found. Plus, you're free to talk about whatever without it tanking your next post from what I can tell

Curious what's stopping bots from coming here too? They have a pretty accessible API!

I hope it lasts too!

Just gave you a follow. It really does feel like I would have never found an account like yours on the other app.

rooting for you Josh! you're one of the few React thoughtleaders who clearly has been around the block and knows web development from first principles/shipping things over a long time

I don't suppose you monitored vs Mastodon too and perhaps have numbers regarding that? I'm not trying to argue in favour of Masto or anything; I'm just curious where I should invest my time for various projects going forward. I was never big on Twitter so I have nothing to compare against 😅

By the way, I've bookmarked piccalil.li, looks great. But Andy, how to remember the domain name 😅 I tried to type it few times, then used autocomplete :) Is it possible to write a post for you related to UI/UX, looks like a good place for having a publication.

I remember good old days, when posting on Twitter was indeed impactful. For example, when I had ~10K followers in 2021, there was a term for me, called "Launch on twitter", same as launching on PH. And putting a direct link and getting 100 retweets wasn't something unrealistic... sigh

I prefer the 8 I have here over the 50% bots Elmo bestowed on me 😉

Additionally, I wonder how many of those accounts were actually still active, or bots.

I'm not a social media pro anyway and suck at anything that is related to numbers on my profiles but yet it felt like I was literally blacklisted on Twitter/X and I was speaking to myself.

I'm glad to have your RSS feed in my RSS reader because indeed Twitter often just didn't show me your tweets 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yeah omg that’s an incredibly stupid argument. This obviously hurt you

Massive respect.

I’ve also left X but still need my account to answer DMs and search for feedback about the surveys.. hard to completely abandon it still

Thanks for pointing this out! We need to shout out the good things people do :)

baller move!

Josh was one of the reasons I came here, and I'll be following suit and closing my twitter account too. We need more big players to just cut ties and make the move. I'm not sure how my 261 followers will take it though 😂

Josh and Kelsey were my nod to lock mine completely down and delete everything for sure.

Agree -- impressive as hell! I already had mad respect for Josh, but this pushes it up yet another notch.

Infinite respect

Josh is good people.

If there are other people who have done something similar, please tag them or shout them out. Some people are financially reliant on Twitter. It's harder for them to walk away, so let's make sure we support them when they do.

in a time when we're all desparately searching for silver linings it's great to see folks who I respect professionally with strong moral convictions unafraid to make them known, esp in an often toxic sector that seems to increasingly love licking daddy Musk's boots

Like, as soon as I can see that most followers are with me, somewhere, then no doubt, it's just pleasant to be here. Like a fresh start, no bots, clean UI

We should all be more like @joshwcomeau.com .. he is a standup human and also a wonderful teacher.

Well the only way we're all going to get off of Shitter/X is if more well know people like Josh make the move. It's one thing for people like me to be here and ignore X, it's another thing entirely for him. Also Josh's blog posts are 🔥🔥🔥 really enjoy those.

He’s not even American, either. Just an informed and caring citizen of the world. 💜

Omg you're amazing @joshwcomeau.com! Thanks for letting us know, Alex!

I think it depends on what we mean by "leave". In my view, it’s about activity. I’ve logged out of Twitter on all of my devices and don’t spend any time there, so I think it’s fair to say I’ve left Twitter. I, as a person, am never there any more, therefore I've left.

I think that's probably gatekeeping; I'm not sure it's helpful to try to enforce a strict definition. Leaving a platform doesn't mean leaving yourself open to e.g. impersonation.

Respect!

@bradfrost.bsky.social just did the same.

bravo josh 👏

👏👏👏