[spectaclepiece]

I was going to cite that exact first quote because it reflects my recent experience on Twitter. Yesterday I deactivated my account. Did I have a large following? I think I had 1 follower, I used it to follow mostly artists and programmers.

So why did I deactivate my account? A couple of weeks ago I started following the debate around free speech because classical liberal values are close to my heart and it was like walking in on a car crash happening in slow motion. I just couldn’t take my eyes of it.

In an attempt to regain my sanity and creative thinking I’m going back to reading books and having private conversations with people, preferably in-person.

Edit: HN discussions it should be mentioned are still a bastion of thoughtful conversation which I would like to maintain. In respect to that please don’t make this thread political, my reference to liberal values was only to give an example of a topic largely infected with a negative discussion climate. Original article was more about the dynamics of conversation, not the topics themselves.

[mackrevinack]

not that it's much use to you now, but you don't need a twitter account to keep up with someone... just use something like nitter that will let you add them to your rss reader