I am getting close to the point of feeling frustration at journalists who aren't willing to simply leave twitter at this point.

The platform is incompatible with journalistic freedom. It's closing time. You don't have to join Mastodon, but you can't stay there.

@e_urq There are journos there right now making that point on the app.

I know very online people folks who took 10 years to build their following primarily on Twitter.

Maybe give them until the end of the month before the purity purges.

@kronocide lol I said I was getting close to the point of feeling frustration.

If that's your definition of a purity purge I don't know what to tell you.

@e_urq Your sense of frustration isn't a purity purge. But the sentiment shared by you has grown tremendously and will no doubt trend upward.

I want The Tony Snark Experience to end in a giant shit show just as much as everybody else. Just give some folks some more time is my point. It was much easier for me to leave then for them.

@kronocide Absolutely. I'm not even 100 percent off it yet myself- I'm transitioning to being fully off but still posting links to my daily news site.

My baby site is going to be hurt- perhaps quite badly though you can never know- by this. Twitter was my main strategy for growing an audience. I'd have been much better of if I'd had a solid year, instead of a few months, to get it off the ground.

It sucks. I'm totally sympathetic. I just also think it's time.

@e_urq Pull up a lawn chair and enjoy the dumpster fire. It will burn out in the next 4-6 weeks. If that.

@kronocide @e_urq Melon Husk has so thoroughly gutted the Twitter organization and brand that the value is a small fraction of what it was when he overpaid for it. We’re he to sell someone would buy it for the platform and code to rebrand and relaunch under a new entity. Even then it’s probably cheaper to build greenfields given that the teams of engineers that built and maintained Twitter have been scattered to the four winds.