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How to break up with your X

Katie Martin, Financial Times:

It is time to con­jure up men­tal images of vast herds bar­rel­ling across the dusty savan­nah and to pro­claim, in your best whis­pery David Atten­bor­ough impres­sion, that we are wit­ness­ing one of nature’s truly great and most majestic spec­tacles: a mass migra­tion.

I can­not claim to under­stand the rain­fall sig­nals that prompt a mil­lion Ser­en­geti wilde­beest to aban­don one graz­ing pas­ture and head to the next...But when it comes to the fresh wave of X users hop­ping over to rival net­works such as Bluesky, the trig­ger to move on is quite straight­for­ward.

The drip, drip of cas­ual racism, edge lord bigotry, bad-faith polem­ics, dog whistles, crass dis­in­form­a­tion, dodgy porn­bots, cyn­ical grift­ing, tin hat con­spir­acies and tire­some crypto bol­locks became too much for some users of the site formerly known as Twit­ter fairly soon after Musk bought it in Octo­ber 2022, later chan­ging its name to X.

https://ft.pressreader.com/article/281947433167138