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1 Alexander Zeitler 2 3 Alexander Zeitler 4 5 [1]Home 6 7 [2]Posts [3][FEED] [4]Postiverse [5][FEED] [6]TIL [7][FEED] [8]About Me 8 9 Farewell, again... 10 11 Published on Tuesday, November 19, 2024 12 13 We're living in interesting times (I think that's a very polite way of putting 14 it). 15 16 Back in 2008, when I joined Twitter, it was a place mostly for developers or 17 nerds - and it was a good place. 18 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. 21 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. 24 25 I have tried to stick with it in various ways: I tried lists, read-only 26 accounts and whatnot. 27 28 In 2022, I joined Mastodon and in 2023 I joined Bluesky. 29 30 But none of them fixed the major problem for me: politics in public. 31 32 These discussions take place at a level that makes me sick and everyone claims 33 the absolute truth for themselves. 34 35 I don't want to spend my life reading things like that. 36 37 In early 2015, I've said [9]farewell to several things. 38 39 And now I'm saying farewell, again. 40 41 Goodbye Social Media, and thanks for the fish. 42 43 (I will keep my accounts to avoid abuse) 44 45 Update: 46 47 There's [10]something new here. 48 49 What are your thoughts about 50 "Farewell, again..."? 51 [11] 52 Drop me a line - I'm looking forward to your feedback! 53 Please be aware that I'm [12]no longer active on social media.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). 55 [13]Imprint | Privacy 56 57 References: 58 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