Goodbye Twitter
I signed up for Twitter on December 3, 2009. Today I closed my account. I was very hesitant to do so but after thinking long and hard about whether I felt the platform was the right place for me, without moderation, with a rapidly dissolving corporate hierarchy, I felt it was time to move on. But to where? Mastodon? Hive? Post? I can't just join all of them and companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, and my local governments haven't adopted another platform. So back to when it was "harder" to contact them. "Harder"... Like picking up the phone to call a human being. Yes, the human is now often a computer. Yes, now the company doesn't have a physical phone, but the point is, many of them have some way to contact them directly instead of through a social media platform. But "harder" could mean it is mentally harder for you to make a phone call. It could also mean your preferred asynchronous method of communication that allows for you time to thin