I wrote a short blog post about why I left Twitter (because clearly the world needs another one).
Feel free to share it on any social media you like! I'll take the hits!
@root I could have gone with "dive bar", but I like the "saloon" concept because it reminds me of the "space cowboy" look that Elon-folks seem to be fond of?
@vkc that makes total sense actually.
@vkc "dank saloon" is such a great descriptor of it!
@vkc well put.
Looking forward to more reading from you.
I definitely need to figure out how I want to read blog posts in the future.. I need to decide on a decent rss tool. 😅
@maloki I'm tempted to do a video on this, actually! I sync them up with my Nextcloud but I've been tempted to spin something up that works on very old equipment.
@vkc I have too many idea and too few spoons. 😅
@maloki @vkc I just started looking at RSS again myself and happily added Veronica's site to my feeds today. I've used FreshRSS in the past; it works pretty well. Currently trying out miniflux and liking it!
Sometimes #NixOS feels like magic; someone else put in the work, so adding `services.miniflux.enable = true` to a config is all that is required to get an instance running (on localhost) :D
@vkc this is my take too. I don't have the same experience you have online. I don't get harassment. I hear and see it constantly. I have a concern that 2 years ago we had a lunatic billionaire using Twitter to goad the alt right to storm the capital. Now we another billionaire who was on one of his councils.
@vkc lots of crossover with my own reasons, great post. Here already seems so much less hostile on the whole which I think is truly fantastic.
@vkc I had created this account as soon as Twitter started endorsing NFTs. I was disappointed to find few active people, here. Kind of glad that people are now actively using/switching over.
The direction in which Twitter was heading was bothering me for quite some time. I haven’t deactivated my Twitter account yet, but hopefully, I’ll be able to do it as more and more people move here.
@vkc was a good read
@vkc Great post, Veronica! I would just add--as someone who writes about tech history--that people often forget that nothing in tech is forever. There was a time before Twitter, and there will be a time after Twitter...which, um, I guess is now?
@vkc I haven’t left the tweeterverse yet, but it may be imminent. You nailed it with “dank saloon.”
@itsjustdj @vkc But Veronica, the dank! The dank!
@vkc that blog post was perfect.