[ericmay]

I'm probably a minority user but for Twitter I use it to follow official government accounts (like the National Weather Service) and a few transit-oriented shitposting accounts that I participate in. I only use the Following feed because I do not, in any way shape or form, have the slightest inclination of "discovering" people or reading what "influencers" have to say or any of those things. For that, Twitter, is still great. I can live in my own content bubble.

Bluesky is good but it doesn't have those accounts (yet, maybe ever?).

Threads seems cool and I've never used Instagram before, but that default feed you have to view makes me dizzy to look at. The comments and posts from accounts I would never follow are so fucking stupid and awful that I cannot use that app until/unless I can silence all of that bullshit. I don't even mind the ads. Whatever. Maybe I'd even pay (ala Twitter Blue but Musk is acting like a piece of shit so not giving him money) but I am not going to be subjected to a steady stream of the worst possible content imaginable.

What I want is Simple Global Message Service with the ability to dig/drill in to things I want/like, and to be able to only view content from people I allow (i.e. follow). Whatever product (Twitter today) gives me that gets my eyeballs or wallet.