I guess the fact that Elon Musk (the “defender of free spech”) is now disallowing links to Mastodon accounts proves that the exodus is continuing.

If you don’t shut down your Twitter account for a reason, at least unfollow other accounts, especially VIP accounts and / or company accounts. There needs to be an even stronger awareness that Twitter is going in the wrong direction, and I can imagjne that the number of followers matters. (This is a reaction to a news item that the German minister of health is keeping his Twitter account for the time being, and is not switching to Mastodon.)

So, I deactivated my account on Twitter today. This is something I planned to do relatively shortly after Elon Musk became Twitter’s owner, and the way he has been driving Twitter into the ground since then didn’t leave a lot of room for doubting my decision. However, I was especially baffled today when I learned that he started a poll on his personal (!) Twitter account whether Twitter should let Donald Trump rejoin or not. I didn’t learn about this poll through Twitter, but through an unrelated news channel. It’s stunning how egocentric Elon Musk seems to be: No matter what the result of this poll is going to be, this is not going to be representative anyway. Does he really think that everybody who is on Twitter is also following him? How about all the people who don’t follow him, does their opinion not count? Does he really think this should primarily be a popularity contest? There were serious reasons why Donald Trump got banned. This is so wrong on so many levels. Wow!

It’s done. I just deactivated my Twitter account.

In about a week, or so, I am going to shut down my Twitter account. If you want to stay connected, follow me on https://blog.p-cos.net and/or through Mastodon at @costanza@micro.blog.

If you’re hesitating to leave Twitter: I have already shut down my Facebook account several years ago, and it isn’t remotely as painful as you might imagine. I’m also not using any other Facebook / Meta services, and also very little by Google (apart from YouTube, and the occasional Google Maps when Apple Maps isn’t good enough).

We don’t need any of this. Real life is much better.

I was skeptical, but I must admit that I like Apple’s stage manager quite a lot!

I have recently looked into multi-stage programming, and I am planning to write a blog post about it from a Lisp perspective. (This announcement is also a way to check how categories work on micro.blog.)

A lot of people are leaving Twitter, for obvious reasons. Many people are switching to Mastodon. My choice is to switch to micro.blog. Fortunately, it is compatible with Mastodon, so you can use the @costanza@micro.blog handle to follow me, if you are interested. See you! :)