"Few times I post on exTwitter it's to advertise the #Fedi as a general rule." @ArtBear To be honest, if someone stayed on Twitter until it became X Twitter, they have been exposed to Nazis and Toxic content to long, to be valuable here. I'd rather they didn't come here. All the people rightfully offended, who came here for #TwitterMigration last year, had principles IMO. I kept my account to prevent name stealing and impersonation. I don't even look at it, I don't have an app either; no value
I continue to use my X account because I don't get enough engagement on Mdon, "hits per post". It's an intuitive comparison, and it's a different flow and of different quality.
Meanwhile, however I've interacted there over time, I'm not drowning in shit. I don't get ads, I don't get Nazi spam. The most obnoxious recent trend is sex-trolls and I unfollow from them.
I'm a little annoyed with the people here who excoriate X on general grounds and turn their noses up at remaining users. Like it or not, a lot of people are accessible there who are not accessible here, and the last KIND of person I need to be hearing from in "this place" is "you are a bad person unless you [believe | do | love | hate ] THING." I don't ridicule your promiscuity seeking platform instances {ooh have you tried X, Y, Z and W yet? Our attention spans, 15 minutes each.} Facebook no longer exists for me because they kicked me out after 6 years for no reason, but that taught me all ownership should be local, thus here everyone federated and under their own rules. A couple other places, no great interest. No interest in MS anything or Zuckerberg anything or Brin/Page anything, and no great loyalty to now-Musk-toyland-SMS: but too many interesting people are still there. #forFolksforFolksSake.
@ecsd@ArtBear It might be the length of your engagement? I only have 500 characters> I've never had a short message like that from you LOL it's like you combine the day's thought's in one toot, and I have difficulty reading> I can't read books, for example. I know how, but my attention span is 3-5 minutes. It take 2 to read your replies. I'm wordy but I have to break them up in 4 posts to rival yours. LOL I'm teasing but they are long.
@ecsd@ArtBear I get engagement, because this is the only place I was posting. Back and forth between X and here, meh! There's nothing there, that I can't get here. I don't use twitter for news anymore. Many of my friends left and came here, or as it turns out BSky too, but not Twitter, so, I can't go back. I don't need to, or want to. And engagement is what you make it. try shorter messages in posts, and ask questions. you'll get more engagement here. You're being data mined and it sold on X
@ecsd@ArtBear Facebook is drama and no creative content. Google Plus easily took me away from that. Twitter then, had 140 characters, and we made due with it. I didn't want longer, then it's not a chat relay, it's microblogging. This is the place for longer posts, twitter attracted me to short instant posts, replies back in real time, and my in-depth posts went to Google Plus, with a different audience. I've tried them all, I went to Instagram without a Facebook link. stopped that too
You're not teasing, but I'm not angry. You're right and I should remain mindful of the issue, but at the same time, I haven't been "broken" by the same system that "broke" [people at large]: I'm what people are like when they've ignored (refuted) having their brains turned to mush by commercial culture.
Think about it. What are we doing? Talking. Since online and in text that's half-duplex, so one tend to send chunks of memes at a time.
IF THEN you have enough to reply that it takes you FOUR POSTS, then the problem is the limit on YOUR server, because you too chunked (aggregated) memes and were just trying to communicate them. See? /Your/ limit was too small to let you say at once what you wanted to say at once. And you had that "longer than average response." But all you were doing was talking. Naturally.
I invited people to expand their limits. Mine is 16 KiB. 500 is IMO absurd. SINCE WHEN WAS WHAT TWITTER EVER DID A MANDATORY GUIDE FOR "CORRECT SMS PRACTICE"?
NO LIMIT IS NEEDED. Things will self-police. The longest post I've ever made here was about 10000 chars. No limit is needed. If it's long enough, it should be published as a book.
I have Moon in Aries. So follow me or don't. I live as an example why "WURDS IS YER FRENDS". If they cheated you out of enjoying them, FIGHT BACK. READ.
@ecsd@ArtBear I can't read, you know? I know how. I spent a lifetime researching things and I can quote regulations and specifications by heart. I didn't read any required reading in school . I was already in the Navy when ADHD was named. I was retiring when they discovered I'd always been ADHD. Long posts like a book, I can't reach the bottom. 500 is a lot for me, I can write a book myself, but can't read it myself. That's why I do Audiobooks. I'm a sponge now. I've an attention span of a page
I apologize for "dumping on you", especially about a disability. But you are not "average" and my complaint is about "average" people having been "taught" that reading is a chore, to the point of actively resisting longer things; and there are topics that simply don't admit abbreviation and bulleting.
If it were the future with smart AIs, I would tell my children to try to beat them (anyway.) This would be possible [explanation too involved] but also its own reward.
@ecsd That's OK, I just wanted to be sure you knew how I process. This is a normal size message I can read. some earlier ones I never got to the bottom of in one sitting and distracted away,, I might not have finished them. I struggle with long texts. That's why doctors finding out how disabled I should be like this, wanted to write some book about their discovery, I reached the top in record time. And I can't read 1000 words in one sitting. But no one knew. some suspected, I'm sure.
@ecsd As I was just telling others, I'm old skool. We didn't reveal those things in the Navy, it was a show-stopper. My career was too important to be known or treated as neurodivergent . I wouldn't even tell friends, while I was still in uniform, that I had been diagnosed. I went on as usual, not revealing that side. It's still hard to talk about it, I've been conditioned but I've been retired a long time now, and have no fear of it stopping my career or income source. I am what I am
@ecsd Very true. I say, NORMAL is a setting on my Washing Machine. I've never met a Normal person?
Everyone is unique. I don't run from odd persons. I learn from them. I don't hate that toxic people once affected me, it helped me find a work-around to cope with them.
When you are on a ship, with more than 200 personalities, you have some fast learning to do, or you'll lose your teeth. You are trapped on a floating Tin Can. Get along, or be a splash in the night.
@ecsd Can't hide on a ship. Ship's company is intertwined with all that we do. We eat, sleep and fight as one. Even if you aren't well known, someone beats up a sailor downtown, it's not uncommon to meet the rest of the ship's company in a dark alley. We protect our own, usually, but we also have internal strife and backbiting. Several of my bosses I was stuck with for 4 years, were assholes. Without any reason, they'd find something you loved, and take it away from you. Jerks.
@ecsd Good morning. I suspect that's what I do. I've only begun to understand my own neo divergence since retiring. It's been a journey.
There's excellent/miserable contrast in the way I process information. Confused my (then) shrink. If found out early, maybe I would not have stayed so long in the Navy. Frustrated by to work harder to get ahead. I liken it to women in the Navy. They are good. They have to be. Males dominate, only exceptional females are treated as well as incompetent males
@ecsd When women began to fill ships I was on, there was a learning curve. There were two types of responses. The typical male, "how come we need them?" and critical thinkers that figured out they were often better workers. 3 of 5 of mine were better than their male peers. One older lady, I'd have traded three of my male subordinates for. What a competent breath of fresh salt air! Not all (male) managers tried to change (Dinosaurs) but I attended every seminar on Women in Navy to understand
@ecsd SO, when I might have also encountered another ADHD or other mental disorder, I was able to work with some. They processed like I did, and some just needed a little help to get by the hurdles. I didn't even know what it was, but I understood the complexities of teaching someone like that, in Theory or Practical training. But, inversely, my students exploited my ADHD, trying to get out of tasks by distracting me. Sometimes they were slick, wasting a period of the lesson I was teaching
@ecsd I don't own my instance. We all picked one, this one, Canadian. I was on another, looking, with limits like yours. Some people start their own to have infinite space, so I can't add or change it, anymore than I can change an X into a friendly place anymore. I work with what I have. Your single messages are longer than the last hour of everyone that messaged me. It's hard to get to the bottom
@Rasta@ArtBear
I retain a Xitter account, but added "...is on Mastodon. Join us!" to my handle.
I continually invite followers and others to create a Mastodon account and post here. I use my account to post stories about Xitter's decay and Musk's bigotry and madness. And to promote Mastodon.
I won't exit Xitter fully until more have migrated here.
@CdnCurmudgeon@ArtBear I stopped inviting. I did it all the month I advertised where I was going. I left a link behind in case some escapee chose Threads over Mastodon and I lost them forever.
The ones STILL NOT CONVINCED they need to leave, are not worthy of begging. They are like GOP, they don't even know they are NAZIS now LOL
@ArtBear@CdnCurmudgeon Did I mention, if you give up your same name on X, and someone RWNJ wants to take the screen name, it's available. And not impersonating, they found a name that was available. But everyone will think it's you. So, people squat on names all the time to protect them. Since Day one, an account that hasn't tweeted since 2009, a dead account, had @ Rasta. I was waiting for Jack to do what he said, and remove dead accounts, but then, twitter wouldn't have enough users to sell
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