Twitter was insufferable long before they started their moderation, for the same reasons that Bluesky is insufferable. Both sites fill my timeline with unwanted bullshit (and no, "see fewer like this" doesn't work on either site), burying the people I subscribed to with repeats of the most annoying and irritating posts by uninteresting strangers that I can imagine.
Oh, and both seem to be filled with bots and spammers.
I haven't logged into Twitter in a year or two, so I don't have a current comparison, but current Bluesky is very close to the Twitter that I stopped logging into several years ago.
I was older than my oldest son is now (47) when I started calling myself old.
Though I must admit that the latest pictures of Half_son (the youngest) have me wondering how the baby boy became an old man (he looks almost as old as I am, despite only being 35 years old).
@sun Once, I brought a tablet and was reading about the algorithms used in navigation software during downtime at work. People in other departments complained to my boss that I wasn't working. I was told that I could take some of the superficial internal training courses, but couldn't read self-educate with outside materials because of appearances.
It was a difficult decision, mostly because there are a few people that I'd genuinely be willing to give a shot at reconnecting with*, all of whom were friends outside of school.
* Currently, the people from high school whom I talk with occasionally are all friends of one of my siblings.
I was cruising along thinking I'm not so old ... and then Son_1 turned 40, and then he turned 45. How does this happen? When did my hair and beard turn almost all-white?
Hasn't anyone read a history book around here? Didn't the schools require them to study US history and government?
During the build up to WWI ("The Great War") and its early stages about a century ago, the US had its head in the sand. But as a late entrant that didn't have already its people and infrastructure being overrun or assaulted, the nation was able to come out of it in a good spot.
In the late 1930s through the mid 1940s, the same thing happened with WWII. The US's isolationism (and being separated from the combatants by oceans) helped keep things good until the attack on Pearl Harbor brought the war to the US.
In WWIII (in preparation since at least 2008--don't pretend it is avoidable, either), ignoring or failing to prepare will not prevent severe damage to infrastructure and population.
A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing.