Deleting Twitter

I deleted Twitter earlier this morning, and to be honest, it's about time. Ever since I started using the app in 2017, I never really enjoyed my experiences; the posts I were seeing slowly became more hateful and provocative, bugs and technical issues were becoming more common, features that should be free are behind an arbitrary $8/mo paywall, and the algorithm kept finding ways to keep me doom-scrolling late at night, and it's mostly all because of a single man who thought he was untouchable.

Well, thanks Elon, I'm stepping away from algorithmic monstrosities, and embracing the social networks of old, and I would do the same to Instagram, but unfortunately that's where I have all of my friends, and I need to keep in touch with them so I guess I'll keep Instagram for now, but I'll definitely stop using "Reels" for the same reason I'm quitting Twitter.

When you're chronically online, you become so intertwined in controversies, internet drama and phrases that you otherwise would never know about, I don't want to be one of those people who know the most recent trends and shit online, I just want to write and talk about my interests in niche subjects to others who share those niche interests with me.

Another thing is the severe amount of bots on Twitter. Is there a single real person on that site aside from me and Elon? Because I swear my timeline would tell you "no".

It's not good, being a part of that algorithm thats sole goal is to keep you on their platform, it's extremely unhealthy. I need to detox, forever.