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Aug 22Liked by Chris McDowall

I love that you're snuffing your Twitter out like the little mutant demon that it is. You're almost there. Once you delete the account entirely, you will truly be free. I did it a couple years ago and never looked back.

I know the fear. It's the fear of losing all those followers. And that little mutant whispers into your ear: "What if we gets better, milord? What if Master Musk is replaced by a Competent and you no longer have your followers because you deleted your account in haste?"

1) TwitterX is not going to get better. 2) If it did, and magically became a platform that WASN'T a fetid cesspool of human rage and invective, then you can get your followers back quickly. They'd find you again and follow you, don't worry.

So yeah, good on you, mate. March ever onward to total liberation.

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Ouf, on Twitter. It has gotten so bad. I've been quiet-quit on it for a while, but still have a number of followers. I tried it on again for size with the recent backerkit campaign and there's just zero meaningful impact or good faith interaction.

I tried Threads a while back and quit that completely. I should probably do the same for all the twitter-clones.

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Ditto on Twitter!

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