Twitter could be fun at the beginning as it allowed us to get some inspiration but now it has even changed name to X, its policy no longer responds to our needs, and it makes no longer sense to stay there.
Twitter for the Positive World
Before planning our website’s creation, we relied on Facebookpublishing our stories in that space only. Then we regretted it all because its algorithm placed them in low priority and our followers didn’t even see them any longer, typical mistakes due to inexperience with semi-professional use of social media.
At that time Twitter did not respect our needs: why rely on posts made of a few characters if we write stories? Although, when our idea of Positive World started, we spent time reading Twitter without interacting and it gave us a chance to know about some people whose ideas we did not share, but by listening to them we were able to create our “seroinverted” fantasy environment from a concrete basis, far from the most common clichés about sexual promiscuity especially in gay culture.
Why are we saying goodbye?
Are we saying that new Twitter (now X)’s founder is very unpleasant for us? Yes, but this is not the main reason we are leaving; little do they care if an amateur blogger like us shuts down his account, the fact is that Twitter is full of unwanted content.
Blue signs, paid profiles, this kind of approach is also Facebook’s: whoever gets the most benefit and visibility is the one who puts up an ad every other day, which is why we immediately understood and supported when one of our best friends closed all his accounts and publicly stated that “social networks suck.”
To build at least a decent timeline, it would require us to be there day after day muting undesired accounts and creating accurate lists of interesting profiles. But, being managed by an algorithm, it takes just a second for a “good” profile to follow a “bad” one or interact with it, and lots of useless content or hate speech appear on our home feed as well.
No thanks. No advantage in keeping Twitter alive if you don’t participate! Or rather, if you let the automated system publish your articles. A social network makes sense when author and readers interact, and for us Twitter, now called “X”, is useless and harmful due to haters it has acquired.
What can we still do now? We’ll use the Fediverse i.e., decentralized social networks, maintaining Facebook only because the most important HIV activists use that platform, but we are taking care of the page less and less, for interactions and information we are on Mastodon: “@ilmondopositivo@mastodon.uno” and especially our own instance “@network@plusbrothers.net”.
Elon Musket, his algorithms, provocations and anything else about former Twitter, can go to hell when they want.
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