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I think the fallacy here is that pre-musk twitter was "fun". It stopped being fun around 2010 when promoted tweets started. At the point of targeted ads, platforms become capture farms and you start optimizing expression for engagement. More addiction than fun.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

My point is just that the current equilibrium sucks. Neither X nor Bsky is as varied or fun as pre-Musk Twitter. Libs leaving X made X worse but did not make Bsky great. Elite dipshits are still getting dragged right & Bsky doesn't have the juice to counteract it. What to do about it? I don't know!

Benjamin Boorowski 👻

@typeoneerror.com

it's so addictive in fact, people will chastise you for quitting. imagine the power and influence and progress I could have with 40K followers. but, is that what I want? conversations with peers or followers? smaller localized and distributed communities or [anti]social "media"?

Benjamin Boorowski 👻@typeoneerror.com

So @mariepoulin.com just announced that she was leaving her twitter account as well and people are already saying she's "insane" for "abandoning" 40K followers. We really should normalize it being okay to let go of things, even at their height.

13/5/26, 1:51 pm1 repost3 likes

Benjamin Boorowski 👻

@typeoneerror.com

13 May

this was my intro to bsky wouldn't change a thing to be honest, i think the rot has settled in for me here as well i think open networks have this entropic drift to them. closed, local, curated networks req more effort, but produce more "fun" over longer timelines. ew, work.

Benjamin Boorowski 👻@typeoneerror.com

Like my previous post about rot/decay: what's important about people sticking around? Does meaningful progress happen when communities stagnate? What if we treated this as the impermanent fun thing it is right now; expected people to leave. If you knew this would die, would you keep enjoying it now?