The platform is infested with bots and unsavoury folk, most people left and dispersed to other places, but a lot of people also quit social media in general.

It's not likely that anyone will be doing 'Twitter numbers' on the other platforms, but at least on those you'll know it's pretty much mostly actual human beings.

It's full of unsavory folk alright lmao I scroll past things that look terrible (subjectively and objectively) often, and with THOUSANDS in engagements

And I'm chopped liver.

And the GD bots poking you. (Now they wind up in their own bin you don't see unless you look for it).
Worst of all: the AI. Lots of the people there campaign against it, but the owner is 100% for it. Makes me feel like I can't see effort and reality anymore.
Machines watering down my passion... >[

Machines don't have style tho :)
Cuz of that, they ain't gonna run me off!

It's the platform, hahah. You gotta pay to be seen! You'd be better off making a bluesky, Twitter's become very annoying and difficult to use.

Well hello, you!
Yeah, paywalling visibility is a sinister thing to do, and that's one of those "some people can never have too much money" things, But if I wanted an account everywhere, I would have made one at bsky on week 1.

But I'm getting old. Even if I were onto all the new stuff right away, I still have trouble relating because I'm gen X and my approach to everything iiissss blunt. I wonder if I'd even blend in, even if I keep my mouth shut vwv;

Hiya Noonieee~! <3

I guarantee you that you'll have a nicer time if you just hopped on bluesky and stayed there. It's so functionally identical to Twitter without all the annoying nonsense that it just feels a lot nicer. Don't sweat the numbers, follow some folks, make a lil' announcement here on FA if you want a lil' starting pool of followers, I guarantee you'll be nice and cozy with it in a week.

For me, while the bots and paywall stuff was annoying, what really made me leave was just that I encountered glitches in there that really hampered my experience. Timelines that randomly just stopped loading new tweets, and then the timeline completely changing at the drop of the hat, showing me things from people I'm not following that haven't even been retweeted, that stuff was just mad annoying and Bluesky got rid of that for me. I bet those bugs never even got fixed!

Also, on a slightly selfish reason, I want to see you on bsky so I could see you more!! ;u;

The site was bought by an egotistical nazi billionaire filling it with hate speech, ads, and bots. A lot of people aren't there anymore.

I should have been much more active on it before that. Then I might have had the foothold to make it worth staying. Right now tho it just makes me sad.

Do all that work, post it with the cleverest shit I can think of, get excited, scroll just to see what's hot.
an uncolored sketch from 6 hours ago has 2.4k likes,
the colored progression I posted 24 hours ago? 14. If I'm lucky.

It very demotivating....

Some people pay for the bots to boost everything and it shows.

I left a while ago, on BlueSky now.