Dan Sinker on what we're all feeling about Twitter these days. The diaspora of our friends to pastures green, and posting less.

Year Of The Living Dead

I'm on all of them (because of course I am) and ultimately they're all fine but, over the course of the last year, I've found that I post to them less and less.

Yes! And this hits the nail on the head for me.

For years Twitter was just the place you could dump your thoughts. You didn't have to think about it, you just dumped. I dumped a lot of thoughts into Twitter. I made lots of friends along the way. But now? Now those friends are spread across multiple sites, if they've landed anywhere. And any thought you want to dump now? You've got to decide where to dump it. Nowadays I find myself asking, "Is this a Mastodon thought?" "A Bluesky thought?" "A Threads thought?" Do I post it to all three? (And what does that mean?) By the time I've run through this particular flowchart, the thought is usually gone.

Elon Musk everyone. Great job.

Update: the link to Dan's blog post was hilariously busted. Be careful with curly quotes on mobile.