I deleted my Twtr account after mostly neglecting it since Musk took over. I could see he would be bad news and he got worse. Now I can't even see what goes on there as you can't view it properly without an account. I think that public posts on any platform should be visible to all, even if not logged in.
I've not tried Bluesky or Threads and don't plan to. I will focus on Mastodon and Hive as I've had enough of corporate platforms. I do find Mastodon a bit preachy and 'holier than thou' with people telling you that you must annotate your images and use tags in certain ways. They are also fairly anti-crypto and I got blocked by a certain open source advocate for mentioning Hive :) I will still use it and I follow some interesting people.
Twtr used to be the default place to follow celebs and interesting people (not necessarily the same thing), but now they are all over the place. Instagram has a lot, but I find that mostly tedious. Previously I lost touch with a lot of people when Google+ shut down. but Google has failed at social several times.
I'll stick with the decentralised options for now. Some people have looked at integrating Hive with the 'Fediverse'. I wonder if the gatekeepers there would tolerate it.
The Guardian has joined the exodus. I like this cartoon there. The artist is on Mastodon.
It's mostly sheep that have left. Standing around bleating because the sheep next to them is bleating, and it's what the flock is doing anyway. People still can't seem to grasp the concept of ownership; they seem to have this entitlement attitude to everything these days.
I like to know what is happening, and I don't trust the news media to give me the facts. They only give us their interpretation of facts or, at the very least, what they would like us to think. It's better to suffer Elon's insane ravings for the odd little nugget of value than to stand in the corner bellowing, "La, la, la, I'm not listening!" 🤷♂️
It's easy to call people 'sheep', but it ignores their actual opinions as you cannot generalise. People won't pull the plug lightly. As for 'the news media', you generally know where they come from and they have to build trust. Randos on the socials may be less reliable for news.
I think it's a turning point in social media and we don't have precedents for any of this. The print media has a shrinking audience and TV may be losing viewers too.
Musk is a troll who is likely to benefit from the chaos he helped create.
We need another war; there's money to be made in a war. 😉
Be careful what you wish for...