
When Musk bought Twitter, I gave up on the platform, immediately. I left a verified account with thousands of followers behind, removed all posts and unfollowed everyone.
Ever since Musk revealed himself to be an insufferable jerk when 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped in flooded caves in Thailand in July 2018, I knew that I would never ever do business with him. As in “buy one of his cars” or “work for him”. When he took over Twitter it was time to go. I wasn’t going to work for him.

Strangely enough, this retired account still has 5294 followers, and the number keeps falling. As of today, 5294 also happens to be the number of followers I have on Mastodon, in the Fediverse.
Trust me, this is a much better place. Martin Holland keeps a list of verified media accounts on the platform that can be searched, filtered and exported for mass following.
I also maintain an account on Bluesky which I am not posting to at the moment since engagement has been way below Mastodon recently. Granted, it only has 3450 followers. I still read posts on the platform once a day and I may return in the future. Here is a starter kit with fellow authors.







