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Something Happened on twitter, and i entered the longest most productive and emotionally significant period of hyperfocus of my life, and channeled my anger and sadness into creative ends, and what came out was this blog post that's… very plausibly the longest thing i've ever written in one sitting, and somehow the most coherent and digestible. it's about what's happening to twitter. please read it. i poured my heart into it. https://hikari.noyu.me/blog/2024-10-02-the-algorithm-is-killing-twitter-and-its-driving-me-insane.html

@hikari I'm perma-locked on twitter so I went on here so I could say, thank you for writing this. I found myself less drawn to the assessment of what that place's become, something I could just find myself quietly nodding along, already having made arrived at several of those conclusions myself...

but I resonated, a lot, with how you describe what that place's meant to you, what you used it for. kept saying "yes! yes!" at the list in "twitter is not just for Tweets About [Thing]...". I can only mourn it, as you're right, you can never rekindle magic, you can only create something similar. the people whose thoughts I cared to hear, they all went elsewhere (mastodon, bsky, cohost (rip)) or nowhere ("you can always hit me up on discord") and there's just less and less of them as all the problems you described continue to hollow out the few positive aspects left of it. I couldn't really find the words to make the close people in my life understand these feelings, but maybe if I show them your blog post I could. thank you. I've followed you for a while, very vaguely adjacent to those pico-communities you mentioned, and I hope i can continue to follow you and hear more of what you have to say