Y'all know where to find me. My account here will continue to exist, my past tweets will stay up, but I'm gone. You can join me if you want. 5/5

Don't fall for it. Just leave. I was giving Elon's Twitter a shot to see if something better could develop from the current wreckage. But for so long as this policy exists, Twitter is actively harmful to your most fundamental civil right. And it's time for you to leave. 4/

Anyone who tries to block your exit is not your friend. They are your oppressor. If Twitter is now saying "we'll suspend your account if you tell people where else you can be found!", they're threatening your account to make it more difficult for you to leave. 3/

The most fundamental freedom, even moreso than the freedom of speech, is the freedom to _go somewhere else._ Don't like where you live? Leave. Untold legions of people have done this throughout history. I've done it myself a few times, chasing economic prosperity. 2/

So, there's a new Twitter policy about competing social networks. In essence, it's really simple: "don't talk about them and don't advertise your presence on them." This is for me the last straw. Here's why: 1/

Stop talking about Twitter. The more you talk about Twitter, even if you leave Twitter, the more oxygen you give it. Stop talking about it, stop using it. One of the most important parts of any exodus is: you don't look back. 4/4

Leave your tweets up. Your tweets are part of history. Don't destroy history in your desire to hurt Musk. Go somewhere else, like Mastodon. Find your people. Encourage your people to leave Twitter. 3/

Keep your username here, because you never know what will happen: Elon might be the target of a hostile takeover himself, the way he's going. It might someday be a good place to return to. 2/

Since everybody has an opinion about What To Do About Twitter, here's my own radical recommendation: Nothing. 1/ , but really, you could stop reading now if you wanted to.

As a reminder to people: you can find me as rjh on mastodon dot online, or on https://t.co/7lHQjpc1cq . The first is my professional(ish) account, the second is my personal.

Peace to all. Thanks for reading. And remember, I'm not going anywhere. :) 10/10

Just have the common sense to know who's your mortal enemy and who's not. For those who aren't, even if they disagree with you, give them the same charitable reading you'd give your allies. Do that and I'll very probably engage. :) 9/

This doesn't mean you have to play nice with people who want to hurt you! I'm certainly not saying "you have to give ISIS a fair and open-minded hearing." (Already did that, reached my judgment, no do-overs.) I said *not allied* groups, not "they want to hurt me" groups. 8/

Going forward, I will no longer engage with people using the three-worlds model of discourse. I won't get involved in threads unless the participants have records of kindness to the not-allied-groups. I have nothing to offer these people anyway. 7/

I'm not leaving, but I sure don't like the direction Twitter is going. Rather than scream and make a scene and make for the door, though, I'm going to stick around... just with some changes for my own sanity. 6/

I don't think Musk has changed things so much as he drove a massive change in demographics. Immigration and emigration are destiny for both social media and nation-states: the people who feel pogrommed out alter, by their absence, the world as much as those who remain. 5/

The non-allied other: "OMG you're a total NPC you could be replaced with a 288-character shell script YOU'RE WHY WITTGENSTEIN COMMITTED SUICIDE". Three different standards for three different audiences. It's wrong: people shouldn't do that. But here it's encouraged. 4/

The allied other: "288 characters is really too small to do their idea justice, so I'll read charitably, giving them every benefit of the doubt, and will keep my own Wittgensteinian 288 replies engaging and moving the discussion forward." 3/

Twitter users have overwhelmingly had three audiences in mind, with three different sets of standards. The self: "288 characters isn't enough to even approximate the nuances and complexities of my position. Others should consider their Wittgenstein before reading me." 2/

I'm not leaving Twitter but I'm going to be radically dialing back my involvement. The short version is post-takeover the parts I most dislike have grown stronger and much that I liked has vanished. The long version? 1/