I am about to uninstall Twitter on my mobile phone. In recent months I have limited the usage to check out mentions, and I guess I can look at the mentions from time to time through my browser. This is the level of annoyance on my part. An eccentric spoilt rich man destroys a platform, and we should not give in. I have already downloaded my archive, and I am good to go. This is not about paying. I already pay for many digital services. It is the arrogance and rude approach to users. Elon Musk has destroyed a whole media ecosystem already. My WordPress jetpack app cannot automatically post to Twitter, and in recent months this has changed to Mastodon.
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In my daily routine, I look at my Feedly feed instead of instinctively looking at Twitter now. It is time to switch back to RSS readers, and Feedly is a nice one. It is less time-consuming, and I ignore most of the toxicity flowing in our Twitter feeds now.
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