I quit Twitter in 2017, because the toxic political arguing was non-stop, and seeing a bunch of Trumpers spewing shit all over the proverbial walls all day wasn't fun or healthy.
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when Elongated Muskrat decided to buy it, the day it was announced that he could not back out of the deal I deleted my account and never went back
Same here
I bailed around 2016 because I knew what a shit show it was going to be when Trump won. I also closed my Reddit, Imgur, and Facebook accounts around the same time.
When musk tweeted something about requiring users to provide their location, I bailed (I know he never followed through on this).
Worked out OK, because I had time to find most of the people I was following on other platforms. When he killed 3rd party clients I definitely would have rage quit had I not already left.
Basically any time a social media platform axes third party clients, I'm out. None of these people can make a decent app.
In, I think it was 2006 or so? I had a poke around, decided why the fuck would I want to do this, and that was it.
I had exactly the same experience.
For me it was the stupid kitchen sink incident.
Elon was showing his true colors and I just knew it wouldnt be enjoyable for me to use after that.
Any more context about the "kitchen sink incident"?
It was just one of his juvenile stunts, but it struck a chord with me that he was a jackass and not the visionary that the media had largely painted him out to be until this time.
This is like the story about the person who sent a bag of peanuts with their resume to show that they were 'going nuts' wanting to work there. Same dumb pun energy.
Musk finalized the purchase…
Actively courting and pursuing Musk in to taking over when he was trying to back out of it.
I was gone before he took over formerly, because I realised that all the problems I had with the place were only going to get worse, never better.
I'm still a lurker on twitter...
I stopped interacting when Elmo took over & released the trolls
When Blue users where getting pushed to the top. The vitriol was always bad, but it was altogether too much when you couldn't open the replies to anything without reading the most heinous shit imaginable.
I only ever really got into twitter with any real frequency on an account for a character I had on a DayZ roleplaying server a few years back. In that lore we were right at the beginning of the outbreak and the internet still worked for the first few months, so we were all on twitter posting about a civil war in a non-existent country and a global zombie apocalypse. A bunch of accounts got banned for threatening to kill one another. It was fun.
I could never really take twitter seriously after that. Or before, really.
Musk. I think it was a couple of weeks after that
The moment it was confirmed that Musk would buy it, I left the platform.
I deleted my 12 year old account the day his buyout went through and never looked back.
I left around the time it was bought. I probably don't have to elaborate much on that but it hadn't quite felt like a place where I was welcome before, but it would be actively hostile after. And that did turn out to be the case.
I left before it was bought, I was replying on a Mozilla Rally post where someone replied with a bunch of misinformation about it and they dumped a few paragraphs basically calling me a paid shill and blocked me lol
That and having a bunch of racism/transphobia shoved into my feed on the regular just made me realize it just wasn't worth my time, way too toxic.