{"id":3340,"date":"2022-11-01T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2022-11-01T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:20:00","slug":"leave-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2022\/11\/01\/leave-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk&#8217;s successful purchase of Twitter and the questionable behavior that has followed has caused users to quit or at least seek an alternative. I am waiting to see what happens and I would be reluctant to leave until after the election season has passed. This seems a critical time and not the time to withdraw. I am also concerned about heavily populated silos and then impact on individuals who receive little else in daily information. This is the reason I have joined and regularly comment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2022\/06\/20\/in-search-of-truth\/\">Truth Social<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a member of two alternative social platforms &#8211; Mastodon (<a href=\"https:\/\/twit.social\/\">twit.social<\/a>) and WT.social. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a couple of sources you might explore if you are interested in alternatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Verge article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23429095\/twitter-social-network-alternatives-mastodon-reddit-tumblr-cohost\">Twitter alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mastodon &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/10\/31\/mastodons-microblogging-app-saw-a-record-number-of-downloads-after-musks-twitter-takeover\/\">TechCrunch description<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s successful purchase of Twitter and the questionable behavior that has followed has caused users to quit or at least seek an alternative. I am waiting to see what happens and I would be reluctant to leave until after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2022\/11\/01\/leave-twitter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}