{"id":2561,"date":"2024-11-14T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T22:02:42","slug":"adios-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/2561","title":{"rendered":"Adios Twitter!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/2561\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">After 14 years and 1700+ followers, I finally deleted my Twitter account. It was disappointing. I&#8217;m a news junkie, and Twitter used to be an excellent tool for curating my news feed. Unfortunately, Musk has destroyed a once great social media platform and turned it into a sewer. The last straw was election day in America, when my feed was carpet bombed by thousands of new accounts with names like bob7398*1904 and smith6874930&amp;5. Not so shockingly, all had blue checkmarks and were pro-Trump, and many demanded the genocidal destruction of Ukraine. I&#8217;ve blocked thousands of junk accounts in the last two years, but this orchestrated campaign finally convinced my stubborn ass that Twitter was a hopeless cause.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, I think I&#8217;ve found a platform that might be a suitable replacement: Bluesky. It looks and acts just like Twitter, which is more than I can say for other Twitter wannabes like Threads. I&#8217;ve only been on for one day, but so far I&#8217;ve found most of my favourite news organizations, journalists, and columnists. These include The Tyee, the Globe &amp; Mail, The Atlantic, and commentators like Robert Reich, Andrew Coyne, and David Frum. In addition, most of the key Canucks hockey pundits have started posting on Bluesky this week, so I won&#8217;t have to forego the minute-by-minute game night commentary that I so enjoy. Bluesky is actively moderated to block out the crazies, and its posts and discussions seem quite civilized. Some might miss the chaos and misinformation, but I find Bluesky a proverbial breath of fresh air.<\/p>\n<p>I still haven&#8217;t seen a lot of educators on Bluesky. Twitter used to be an excellent forum for education discussions, and I found a lot of teachers who share my more traditional teaching philosophy. Hopefully, more educators will join soon. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7176449\/bluesky-gains-million-new-users-alternative-to-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">numerous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/bluesky-election-gains-1.7382384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news reports<\/a>, Bluesky is enjoying phenomenal growth in the last seven days.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, you can find Bluesky in your favourite app store or online at <span class=\"html-span xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs\"><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz x1sur9pj xkrqix3 x1fey0fg x1s688f\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0Y8al1JFL7BLrCgd_rTftIb_KheGLXis1ywcVpPgO0zphQh3z8ABexdv4_aem_6Md0Y8sM93QrzFKfuhYdvQ&amp;h=AT1r-Qz5bHo5ctmGJIAkbfEylzTWf9O7Fy6TmDg0NOQh2AjRvCGaQvrH8BMJXJVipmABVBa9LpDwd6uDOMZHtI92dp1eDUrZojXmzQ132xtEMkdl8Eo5Wu0eO1R43id7uC7sAB2Nak7vKXx1xg&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT2pSID6va8hmo0NbKHxzjxbnIKXgFF-ALfyfqrEDQn0TbVOCubbl8AL4nbUBAjNP1lW1zRPX_EVLvj6dEPw3nAQWCN4TmU4zW5fYJWugT93E_cfHekoOeEe8S-o0CaiABLK1JTr7H8zNPdCXbfRJPhfTw8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 14 years and 1700+ followers, I finally deleted my Twitter account. It was disappointing. I&#8217;m a news junkie, and Twitter used to be an excellent tool for curating my news feed. Unfortunately, Musk has destroyed a once great social media platform and turned it into a sewer. The last straw was election day in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,16,15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-bc-politics","category-canadian-politics","category-media","category-modern-culture","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}