I will start:

It was after I saw that it rebranded to “X”. Set my acc to private, logged out and deleted it from my phone over the course of a day.

I asked a similar question on Masto months before, and decided that it would be great to do it here.

  • off_brand_@beehaw.org
    16·
    2 months ago

    When Blue users where getting pushed to the top. The vitriol was always bad, but it was altogether too much when you couldn’t open the replies to anything without reading the most heinous shit imaginable.

  • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    I left around the time it was bought. I probably don’t have to elaborate much on that but it hadn’t quite felt like a place where I was welcome before, but it would be actively hostile after. And that did turn out to be the case.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Actively courting and pursuing Musk in to taking over when he was trying to back out of it.

    I was gone before he took over formerly, because I realised that all the problems I had with the place were only going to get worse, never better.

  • derbis@beehaw.org
    7·
    2 months ago

    In, I think it was 2006 or so? I had a poke around, decided why the fuck would I want to do this, and that was it.

  • darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 months ago

    I bailed around 2016 because I knew what a shit show it was going to be when Trump won. I also closed my Reddit, Imgur, and Facebook accounts around the same time.

  • Visikde@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 months ago

    I’m still a lurker on twitter…
    I stopped interacting when Elmo took over & released the trolls

  • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I only ever really got into twitter with any real frequency on an account for a character I had on a DayZ roleplaying server a few years back. In that lore we were right at the beginning of the outbreak and the internet still worked for the first few months, so we were all on twitter posting about a civil war in a non-existent country and a global zombie apocalypse. A bunch of accounts got banned for threatening to kill one another. It was fun.

    I could never really take twitter seriously after that. Or before, really.

  • FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 months ago

    For me it was the stupid kitchen sink incident.

    Elon was showing his true colors and I just knew it wouldnt be enjoyable for me to use after that.

  • drwilhi@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 months ago

    when Elongated Muskrat decided to buy it, the day it was announced that he could not back out of the deal I deleted my account and never went back

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
    3·
    2 months ago

    I quit Twitter in 2017, because the toxic political arguing was non-stop, and seeing a bunch of Trumpers spewing shit all over the proverbial walls all day wasn’t fun or healthy.

  • BDC@beehaw.org
    2·
    2 months ago

    When musk tweeted something about requiring users to provide their location, I bailed (I know he never followed through on this).

    Worked out OK, because I had time to find most of the people I was following on other platforms. When he killed 3rd party clients I definitely would have rage quit had I not already left.

    • Alice@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 months ago

      Basically any time a social media platform axes third party clients, I’m out. None of these people can make a decent app.