Funnily enough, of all the things that Musk has done with Twitter, this is the one which I realised genuinely bugs me. I hate the X logo and hate seeing the X icon on my phone. I realised I actually genuinely liked the cute little bird. I know it’s not worth getting invested in, after all Twitter has always just been a for profit corporation. But for me this just exemplifies the problems with capitalism. Twitter doesn’t belong to Musk rightly, it belongs to all of its millions of users who generate content, culture, and media on it and for it every minute. And yet a billionaire megalomaniac can come and shit on it and within less than a year fucking ruin it. There’s no democracy in this. I’ve tried mastodon but I just can’t get into it as much as lemmygrad. It seems too boring and just full of tech nerds. Unless someone can recommend a good mastodon instance to join?
If you are into math, mathstodon.
the “blaze your glory” slogan feels rather fascist to me too, which is fitting given who’s still left on the site
There are certainly tech nerds, but there’s plenty of other stuff out there, particularly art and other cultural sharing. What sort of topics are you into? Mastodon greatly benefits from following hashtags, so maybe folks can recommend ones to follow for you. Also, if you happened to join an instance with only a few users, it may be missing a lot of relayed content from various other instances which can provide the appearance of boring/missing content.
The “X” is there to remind you to close the tab ASAP. Always works for me, it’s very considerate of Musk.
Pro tip: Use https://nitter.net if you want to browse Twitter without the intrusive stuff
