das hier habe ich über einen mastodon account gefunden. da ich mit twitter nie etwas zu tun hatte, finde ich das doch ziemlich erstaunlich:
It’s time to start leaving Twitter behind
The thing is, there have always been good reasons to quit Twitter. From the beginning, people found that the platform was too distracting, too depressing, too polarizing, too addictive. [...]
So common is the idea of quitting Twitter that, by the middle of the decade, some writers were already begging their peers to stop writing essays about it. “There Is No Need to Explain Why You Quit Twitter,” read the headline of a Richard Lawson piece in Vanity Fair in 2015.
“The Internet requires nothing of you and you owe it nothing, least of all an explanation for why you’re ceasing to use one of its many services,” Lawson wrote. “It’s rarely a good look, trying to give thoughtful shape to what is, almost always, a petty personal decision the way most personal decisions are petty. ‘I just don’t want to be on there anymore’ is the absolute maximum that anyone should say about any of this.”
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