{"id":3416,"date":"2024-01-05T09:49:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2024-01-05T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:55:58","slug":"rest-in-piece-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2024\/01\/05\/rest-in-piece-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in piece, Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has been said on the death of Twitter, a <a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2021\/06\/02\/fifteen-minutes\/\">medium I enjoyed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Twitter was always more than a news source, or a conduit for information. It was a place where a sense of goofiness and comfort allowed communities to form\u2014Weird Twitter, Philosophy Twitter, BTS Twitter. Such communities allowed users to find the platform endearing, even as they called it the \u201chellsite.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/annals-of-technology\/what-we-lost-when-twitter-became-x\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/annals-of-technology\/what-we-lost-when-twitter-became-x', 'What We Lost When Twitter Became X']);\" >What We Lost When Twitter Became X<\/a> \u2013 Sheon Han, The New Yorker<\/p><\/blockquote><p>You can now follow me on Threads, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@anto_nymous\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@anto_nymous', '@anto_nymous']);\" >@anto_nymous<\/a>.<\/p><a href=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3421 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trees.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trees.jpg 655w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trees-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trees-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><\/p>I&#8217;ve tested Mastodon and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/antonymous.bsky.social\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/antonymous.bsky.social', 'bluesky']);\" >bluesky<\/a>, but it never really did it for me. I&#8217;m try to communicate about science on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/awojdyla\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/awojdyla\/', 'LinkedIn']);\" >LinkedIn<\/a>, but is has the vibe of a hostage situation \u2013 except that it&#8217;s filled with humblebrags and emojis used as bullets to list platitudes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has been said on the death of Twitter, a medium I enjoyed. But Twitter was always more than a news source, or a conduit for information. It was a place where a sense of goofiness and comfort allowed communities to form\u2014Weird Twitter, Philosophy Twitter, BTS Twitter. Such communities allowed users to find the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-mood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}