Not right now.
We had this conversation regarding Facebook before. There is a difference between “this thing sucks and we’d like to stop supporting them” and the reality that a not-insignificant portion of news referral revenue comes from the big social sites. This has been discussed in a few posts now.
Risking BB’s continued existence to deny twitter some traffic is not a “win” - working hard to promote and integrate with alternatives so the news world (including BB) can free themselves from twitter is that win.
I can’t do that (yet) either. So much information about current events (think the invasion in Ukraine), especially non-news sources, is being shared by users on Twitter. It’s not a “bad habit”; it’s the reality of the issue above - Twitter is such a huge news source that I’d easily guess that half of the links posted here are from Twitter and don’t have accessible alternative sources yet. We don’t gain anything by turning the light off on war or independent folk that (currently) don’t have a better alternative to disseminating information widely.
The good news on this specific front is that as alternative sources pop up, nothing is stopping mutants from linking to those sources instead! So, encourage the folks you follow to use alternative platforms. Link to alternative sites when you see them, and encourage others to use those sites and sources as they become viable.
For now, BB has a presence and a bot in the Fediverse, and we will be early adopters of whatever is to come.
