Everyone’s at it. 
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Just ditched Twitter also. Have created a BlueSky… any good? anyone i should follow?
Am likening the mood on BlueSky at the moment to all these torpedoed shipwreck survivors washing up on a calm island elated at seeing other loved ones there, but yet to process the trauma of what has just happened
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Shall we have a Bluesky follow pile on?! 
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As much as its nice thats theres what appears to be a more positive alternative, i cant be arsed with it and see this more as an opportunity to bin off the whole concept for now. To each their own and all that though.
Been nearly 4 months without Twitter on my phone now. I decided to fire up my kindle and make sure i always have a book on the go so rather than scrolling through a stream of bollocks before bed, I read instead. Feels good man :smug face:
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who knows how much i’ll use it, but i just fired up a bluesky account: @camerobo.bsky.social on Bluesky
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I’m Digital Marketing Manager at work, so social media is part of what I do but the last 2 weekends I have taken the apps (IG and FB) off my phone on a Friday and not reinstalled until the Monday which stops me wasting precious weekend time sitting on the couch and doomscrolling. If you are at a point of saturation but don’t want to delete forever, i can recommend this method as a decent alternative.
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I started a bluesky too :)) npdeo.bsky.social
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Taking off your phone is best way after doing a month ago
Even for TP I have to consciously go to laptop but it stops constant pick up
Can be boring if your st waiting somewhere but I now carry a paper back ( inc teh pub)
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I have a friend who worked at Twitter until the Elon buyout. She was in security - Elon promptly fired her team when he came on. She knew a few people still on the inside and it’s just as bad as you might expect.
My preferred detox method has been to read physical media which allows me to put the phone aside for a defined time period…
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couldn’t sleep last night so i was farting around on twitter. it sucks because it’s 3% brilliant and 97% horrid, ugly garbage. so i finally deactivated.
there’s a lot about it i’m gonna miss. i never found it very useful for music stuff, but i really enjoyed NBA twitter, weird twitter and unintentionally funny celebrity twitter. i also became a championship blocker - all that curation work for nothing. oh well.
there was a stretch when my twitter handle (djcameron) was frequently mistaken for a terrible politician from kentucky (djaycameron). i thought about impersonating him but it felt like the stakes were too high - i didn’t want to end up on the local news. who knows, maybe there’s an actual DJ cameron out there who’s willing the buy the handle from me. with twitter absolutely flailing into uselessness, I doubt i’d get any decent money for it.
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Deleted Facebook years ago,never got into twitter, had been using Instagram a fair bit there but changed phones last week and can’t bring myself to log in again!
…I’m sure it won’t be long til the fomo kicks in tho 
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Was long done with Xitter tbh well before the current political shitshow. There were a lot of creepy, ill or overfamiliar weirdos, shouting peedo at anyone they disliked. And there were too many dumb, pointless rows with unionists, nationalists, extremists and Guetta apologists.
But at the same time, made new friends, learnt a bit more Spanish and read so many fascinating threads about everything from unsolved crimes to forgotten ‘scenes’.
It was thanks to Twitter that I learnt about Argentina’s dark racial history, followed brave Ukranian units and saw the Arab Spring unfold (and unravel…) in realtime. Twitter was a major source of fun during lockdown when the gallows humour and videos of parrots, kitchen ambient DJs and balcony superstars kept us going.
It was twitter i turned to for the live commentary of that hilarious royal jubilee when grace jones hoola hooped, and the london olympic opening ceremony and it was where you could feel the collective love everywhere when ‘get back’ finally got broadcast.
I think there was also something quite moving about the collective tributes to people who died and meant so much. Seeing it happen all over the world at once was really powerful.
Maybe Bsky can reprise the hits but it depends on legacy news and whether they have the resources, authority and the will to effectively join a ‘resistance’ movement… o’wise it risks turning into a gloried therapy group for liberal types with all the relevance and potency of eunuchs in a brothel
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Same, hadn’t used twitter for a while due its absolute toxicity so I’ll see how this goes…
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Took the plunge as well. Seems really quite nice so far…
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Great piece in yesterday’s Guadian about the ‘zombie apocalypse’ created by mobile phone usage in San Francisco and beyond. Much of which we’re already aware of but nicely written.
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Yeah I missed that thanks for the link… "The detectives in classic film noir movies are masterful because they know cops, cabbies, bartenders, reporters, crooks, nightclub hat-check girls and everyone in between. They’re love songs to cities that are made out of " astute observation, hand;t thought of it like that… But that was Bogarts schtich fo sho
I read one of those Raymond Chandler novels recently. The plot was a bit of a labyrinth and was very dated in terms of stereotypes, but you just couldn’t help hearing the whole thing in Bogey’s voice, he was perfect for it.
yeah he was an unlikely leading man and all the better for it.
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