Michael Tae Sweeney: Even if you studiously use Lists and never click the For You tab it doesn't change the fact that the first reply on any post you click into will be some dipshit paid blue check or the fact that your own posts will get buried if they don't conform to the ForYou algorithm 98% of users use

It's a propaganda site. By going there you are absorbing propaganda chosen by an evil billionaire. Maybe you think you are a very special boy who, unlike other human beings, is immune to being influenced by propaganda so it's okay!

real twitter you could pretty tightly curate what you saw and vichy twitter it’s like being stuck on your dipshit uncle’s facebook page

Even if you studiously use Lists and never click the For You tab it doesn't change the fact that the first reply on any post you click into will be some dipshit paid blue check or the fact that your own posts will get buried if they don't conform to the ForYou algorithm 98% of users use

If you have the Vichy Twitter mobile app on your cell phone at this point you are a sucker. Trusting Elon Musk with the permissions that app requires is insane bsky.app/profile/jedg...

Chrome extensions like blue blocker make the desktop version workable, but lack of the same on the app or mobile browser make it much worse. The blue check prioritization ruined the usage for me.

I caution against deleting your account entirely - it allows someone else to poach to your username and now that Elon owns the site they almost certainly will retain a copy of your messages etc even after you delete - but everyone should uninstall the mobile app immediately bsky.app/profile/sola...

I finally logged in and deleted my account. Kept thinking I would go back sometime to check my bookmarks, decided it wasn't worth the effort. Cancelled NYT this week too.

If you are going to delete your Twitter account it is best to empty it first. Delete your tweets, then your follows, before you deactivate your account.

I was banned for life from Twitter after Elon the free speech baron took over so I’ve never been allowed to delete my stuff.

not sure what they did, but they broke the web app on mobile safari with my standard set of content blockers, and tell you this, which: lol, lmao

The week he took over, I stopped auto updates on my Twitter mobile apps. So I can still block straight from the timeline, have headlines for URLs, no “from Earth” nonsense, no hidden reply/like buttons (that’s coming soon to an update). But prioritized replies for blue checks is from the server. ☹️

I deleted the app late in 22, but still use the browser. Less and less so as there is more activity over here.

I imagine your world re. Twitter approaching some semblance of a Simpsons gag by now

I stopped using it a year ago when it became like this because the experience was soooo degraded, cannot understand how people are still there considering now it's this AND Nazis AND shit robots

Chrome extensions like blue blocker make the desktop version workable, but lack of the same on the app or mobile browser make it much worse. The blue check prioritization ruined the usage for me.

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