Why are some people still staying at Twitter?

I’m heavily invested in sports. Literally everything when it comes to my team gets posted there first. There’s just no other way to get the content.

I suppose I could visit 20 pages a day and be on the lookout, but I’d miss the most interesting things, the discussion. Unfortunately they only happen there.

I can imagine many are in my situation, but with other hobbies.

Same here. I curate the shit out of my feed so it’s only sports. The people I follow the second any start getting political I block them.
- Don't worry, musk has floated taking away the block feature, soon there will be no way to avoid the politics and just focus on what you love.
  
  You will see the hate, you will see the anger, you will engage. Resistance is futile
I wonder how much you could move those feeds to RSS.
- I could move most news to RSS, but that would also mean an overflow of news and getting the same tidbit from 15 outlets. But regardless, so much of the great content and thoughts is user based. And that content I couldn’t get through RSS. And in all honesty, that content is much more interesting and valuable.
- @hansl @Mesaji @ribboo 90% of my internet consumption is via RSS.

It has always been the case that way more people talk about Twitter than use it. From the start it has been a media darling with a underwhelming user base, and an even lower participation rate.

The thing that gave it value was the amount of celebrity presence. And as long as celebrities are on it it will be relevant, no matter what Muskie does to cripple it. As soon as there's a new platform with a growing celebrity presence people will flock there and twitx will die off slowly.

Most people don't give a shit about politics and would rather not hear about them. So they don't.

Twitter, for them, is about connecting to friends. Connecting to hobby groups. That sort of thing. And Twitter is mostly still useful for them. So they don't even notice the tire fire building up around them.

I heard the recent changes make it so that all the political bullshit got shoveled into your face constantly. Idk, I'm not on there, but I could swear a lot of folks complained that it was unbearable, so they must be putting in some effort to ignore all of that if true.
- The kinds of people complaining are likely being fed contentious politics because that's what's in their feed and thus what Teh Alegortyhm is feeding them. If all that's in your feed is pictures of daisies and the occasional rose, the same system will likely feed you flowers.

legitimately: i make and consume gay porn and it’s easily the best place to post for my exhibitionism fetish, despite all the bullshit which hasn’t effected that niche use-case all that much

Is there just straight up porn on twitter? Like all i know from twitter is from random screenshots. And is there a reason you don't post on pornhub and link that to an OF or something?
- yup! you can only post 2:20 vids so often you link out to a longer vid anyway, but it’s good to just scroll through a few vids… new stuff all the time
  
  you can post to pornhub/OF/JFF but a bunch of my friends post too and it’s much better to be able to have a reasonable social platform attached to it for RT and replies
  
  twitter is for the discovery and social side

Sunk cost fallacy.

There're tons of reasons to leave Twitter.

The most recent cause is the highly invasive privacy policy, allowing Twitter (x) to exploit your words for Musk's AI projects and granting them authority to investigate your life beyond Twitter—such as your employment background and other personal information.

Giving Musk such permission seems risky.

I'm on Mastodon and Wiremin rn. Using Mastodon to track up to date news and Wiremin to stay connected with contacts.

Is it the right one? http://wiremin.org/ Looks interesting.

My friends and artists and games are there. I would stop if they did. I prefer Mastodon by far. I think it's a better product. Sadly, people seem to be moving to blue sky which has the same fundamental weakness as Twitter. Sigh.

Many reasons, but among them is that all of my political representatives are there. I can read what they’re saying about current situations, and they actually respond when I send requests for information that don’t sound like I’m an unhinged person.

edit: just realized this post is a month old, better late than never I guess

I stopped using Twitter in favor of X

Content is there.

This place is filled to the brim with commies and progressive extremism. Absurdly biased.

Spotted the right wingnut.
- Not even by a longshot. You are blind if you miss the posts from literal card carrying communists on the front page all day.