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      1 Alexander Zeitler
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      3 Alexander Zeitler
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      9 Farewell, again...
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     11 Published on Tuesday, November 19, 2024
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     13 We're living in interesting times (I think that's a very polite way of putting
     14 it).
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     16 Back in 2008, when I joined Twitter, it was a place mostly for developers or
     17 nerds - and it was a good place.
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     19 It's not that there were no differences of opinion there, but I don't remember
     20 a discussion about tabs vs spaces degenerating into death threats or lawsuits.
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     22 Over time, as with the internet a few years ago, Social Media became mainstream
     23 and Twitter, the happy place, was no longer a happy place.
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     25 I have tried to stick with it in various ways: I tried lists, read-only
     26 accounts and whatnot.
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     28 In 2022, I joined Mastodon and in 2023 I joined Bluesky.
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     30 But none of them fixed the major problem for me: politics in public.
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     32 These discussions take place at a level that makes me sick and everyone claims
     33 the absolute truth for themselves.
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     35 I don't want to spend my life reading things like that.
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     37 In early 2015, I've said [9]farewell to several things.
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     39 And now I'm saying farewell, again.
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     41 Goodbye Social Media, and thanks for the fish.
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     43 (I will keep my accounts to avoid abuse)
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     45 Update:
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     47 There's [10]something new here.
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     49 What are your thoughts about
     50 "Farewell, again..."?
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     52 Drop me a line - I'm looking forward to your feedback!
     53 Please be aware that I'm [12]no longer active on social media. I'm just cross
     54 posting things over there (it's a bot).
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     59 [1] https://alexanderzeitler.com/
     60 [2] https://alexanderzeitler.com/articles
     61 [3] https://alexanderzeitler.com/feed.xml
     62 [4] https://alexanderzeitler.com/postiverse
     63 [5] https://alexanderzeitler.com/postiverse.xml
     64 [6] https://alexanderzeitler.com/today-i-learned
     65 [7] https://alexanderzeitler.com/til.xml
     66 [8] https://alexanderzeitler.com/about
     67 [9] https://alexanderzeitler.com/articles/Farewell
     68 [10] https://alexanderzeitler.com/articles/hello-again
     69 [11] mailto:[email protected]?subject=Farewell,%20again...
     70 [12] https://alexanderzeitler.com/articles/farewell-again
     71 [13] https://alexanderzeitler.com/imprint