I finally decided to delete my Twitter account. I have had Mastodon sites for more than a year and now a Blue Sky account so I have places to go.
I was staying on Twitter mostly because I took a few minutes a day to refute obvious falsehoods that have become so common. It is easy to leave, but I had a concern for those that stay and think they are getting a factual view of the world. For me, Twitter long ago lost the links I found useful in my profession.
My decision beyond the poor quality of the information that now predominates came down to two things. First, Musk’s algorithm which controls what you see when using the “For you” option was sending me little I valued. I certainly wasn’t interested in what Musk had to say and was not following him. His comments appeared anyway.
The latest changes to the terms of service also troubled me. Musk has announced that he will use Twitter content to feed his AI offering. As I understand AI to be a mushing together of the content a service is trained on to offer a perspective on knowledge, the last thing I thought to be useful would be a model trained heavily on Twitter content. The position of Twitter on legal matters requiring that they be arbitrated in Texas courts also signaled a bias I did not want to support.
I can be found on Mastodon (@grabe), Bluesky, etc.