[wrs]

I still don’t get it. Why would I want to talk to my friends in public? In a medium specifically designed to propagate out-of-context sound bites? Surrounded by trolls of all ideologies? I stopped posting anything on Twitter because there was nothing to say that’s worth the risk.

[lupire]

Because public is easy. You don't have to make coordinate plans of who to include where and when.

Twitter is like a pub that people are always at.

[criddell]

Twitter is sometimes the best way to reach customer service people who can actually help you with your problem. For me, that's my number one use case.

[Underphil]

Yeah, I hear you. I do get Twitter but am still not interested in what it offers. To each their own, I say.

[incomingpain]

My first account was infosec twitter, I mostly would comment with positivity and was utterly ignored. So I let that account go away.

After Elon made the offer to buy twitter because of censorship I created a new account to test to see if I get censored. I never said anything at all. I was busy liking or following people at first but I connected to my country's politicians and that was enough for me to be shadowbanned.

>I stopped posting anything on Twitter because there was nothing to say that’s worth the risk.

To me it's not so much risk. If you're a platform who ideally wants to maximize activity on the platform. Censoring me because of world-view is really bad. Why would I waste my time commenting while shadowbanned? I just uninstall and stop.

[smw]

Doesn't the term 'shadowbanned' mean that your posts are just invisible to other users, without them telling you that? How would you know if you never posted anything?

[incomingpain]

Open a private window against a tweet you responded to. You'll see if your post is visible or not.

There are also shadowban tester websites. https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com/