Its somehow weird to me that Alex Jones is the trigger point but people were fine with the official Hamas & Hezbollah accounts which are still active.
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I only use Twitter to retweet stuff for contests and whatnot. I log onto it like once or twice a year so i think i’m doing alright. Barely using the platform, don’t really feel a need to engage in the cesspool that lives on Twitter.
I hope this works. Will definitely punch em in the stock price.
My only concern is that all the people with brains will leave and the soup will get even more toxic!
The fall of these social media giants could be reeeeeaaaalllly ugly… Think breaking up with your ex and he/she knows all your private data and he/she’s feeling vindictive x 1billion!
Ugh, I guess we’ll see.
Same here - I bailed when Gamergate spewed all over Twitter and @Jack did fuck/all to stem the flow of hatred. I’m sick and fed up of his pious cant about freedom of speech and why some people are governed by different rules from the mere plebs.
The sooner the wretched company finally goes under the better for all of us.
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They’ve already admitted they will never ban Trump because he is newsworthy - I guess we should be glad Twitter wasn’t around in the 1930s.
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So you don’t mind that the default state of this site is “broken”? That the default state of this website, how the owners/creators/maintainers intend it to be, runs totally against the ideals those same owners/creators/maintainers espouse?
Every once in a while I open Boing Boing with a browser that doesn’t have a ad-blocker and I’m amazed at how ugly and bloated the site becomes. I wouldn’t care that much if Boing Boing didn’t constantly strive for better outcomes for the internet, it’s like they are never looking at their own site.
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They prpbably aren’t! BBS is the default view for pretty much all of the community, authors included.
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It’s a minor irritant, but I don’t recall having lost any sleep over it.
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Inactivism?
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Yes, let’s ignore the existential crisis that removing Boing Boing from Twitter and Facebook would cause while at the same time conflating the decision of an Author to remove themselves from Twitter with the business reality of the site as a whole.
Because we at Boing Boing fucking love that our existence is dependent on the whims of online advertising and the social media giants.
We are sorry you are disappointed in Boing Boing.
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Add them to the disappointed list
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It does need to be updated!
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Why do people ask this? We noticed.
We are just getting fed up.
If it goes viral, and a huge number of people do this, I’m sure Twitter will quietly change their API to prevent such tools from being effective in the future.
For now, though, I think it makes sense.
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Repost, as my initial comment was made into a willing sacrifice to the wolf;
For attention, usually.
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“Flying, floating, falling… fucking?”
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Snark and irony aside, I didn’t read Mark’s personal comment above as “we will loose our main source of income, so we gotta deal with it, FFS.” He wrote about “forcing a decision on users”.
Which is… odd.
Anyways. I am dissapoint with everything lately. sigh
Days are getting shorter already. 
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There’s also vulpine.club, which is not as fox-exclusive as the domain name implies.
The flagship .social instance has gotten a bit more mainstream since I joined back during the “Furry Automated Luxury Space Communism” days in late 2016, but it’s still pretty furry- and queer-friendly. I’m still hanging my hat there myself.
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OK, screw it, I’m in too. I mostly joined Twitter because there are some genuinely hilarious comedians sharing political insight on but the Nazi-to-human ratio is just way too high to justify the platform’s continued existence.
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