Summary
Stephen King announced his departure from X (formerly Twitter), calling the platform “too toxic” and urging followers to join him on Threads.
King has frequently clashed with X owner Elon Musk over verification charges and political disputes, including Musk’s support for Donald Trump.
Other entities, including The Guardian, German football club St Pauli, and actor Jamie Lee Curtis, have also left the platform, citing concerns over toxic content, misinformation, and hate speech.
Rival platforms like Threads and Bluesky are gaining traction, with Bluesky reporting nearly 15 million users globally.
Better late than never for all of these people, I guess.
Sunk cost fallacy hits people hard.
A year ago that might have meant something. Now it’s too late.
Twitter to Threads is like leaving Derry for Jerusalem’s Lot.
Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed. Good for him, though, he’s trying.
Anything but Mastodon/Activitypub, eh? These fellas rlly love sucking on corporate dicks, don’t they
Why wouldn’t they want to join this place and be called bootlickers for moderate policy take by some screaming communist from a .ml? Sounds like a great time to me! Getting yelled at by flying squid twice a day is a joy!
This place is primarily made up of a ton anarchist and communists screaming and spreading their own bullshit. Centrist and and less progressive folks are commonly shouted at, called bootlickers, or Nazis for relatively centrrist views.
Mods and admins are far less balanced than reddit or pre x Twitter as well. LWis about to as close to center as you can get and it’s quite obvious.
There is a slight learning curve to Mastodon. Is there a method for verifying accounts? Honest question there. I signed up for Mastodon years ago but I used it as often as I used Twitter which is to say never.
Attitudes like yours certainly isn’t attracting any new users…
He has a Bluesky account already, and has posted…some.
Everyone I’ve seen (mostly in the tech space) seems to say that Threads feels soulless. I follow a few people there from my Masto account (yay, federation), and that’s all fine and dandy. But I don’t know if I’d trust Zuck in the long run since he already seems to be kissing the ring.
I’ve been calling it the Roman numeral for ten site formerly known as twitter. Are people just abbreviating this to ‘X’ now?
Formerly known as? It’s still twitter.
Sai King has left Twitter, so he has.
Drat, this Tower’s level
I did get a warning to not engage in level hopping, which is why I must emphasize not to do so again
I have many different accounts for some time. People like King thought they definitely wait for Musk to end. BlueSky had not reached the number of users, and types, to make it interesting and useful. In the end, for apps like Mastedon, this is the driver for popularity. Bluesky is much better now, though still missing some types of feeds
It was 10 years ago.
People just want to be smug now cause it’s the cool thing to do.
Is saying “Oh boy, he’s really not the looker, is he?” toxic enough for you guys to send me off to X?
King? He makes his money from knowing how to use words not how to use plastic surgeons.
It’s tailored for your feed based on what you interact with. It’s a mirror my friend, you are toxic.
A mirror of society maybe
I never interact with political shit. Why was my feed all political shit? So naturally I deleted my account.
