Bye bye Twitter
I joined Twitter back in 2007 not long after twttr.com rebranded to a house-hold name.
TL;DR Iām on Mastodon ā see you there! š
When Twitter first landed, people would send text messages in, and their messages would appear on the internet. It was a free and exciting cross-channel experiment that captured the imaginations of early adopters at a time when the internet still felt like a place where one could push the boundaries.
Since then, the revenue opportunities and billionaires have had their way with the kilometres of copper cable and tonnes of switches and routers that made sending a message from my desk to yours possible.
I deleted my extensive history of moaning at underpaid support staff and echoing sentiments that conformed to my worldview a little while ago and rarely return ā especially since my favourite clients were summarily executed by a manchild.
It was a wicked ride while it lasted. Scala going big, brand-new serialisation formats, novel solutions to big data problems, tweets, retweets, hashtags, failwhales, and citizen journalism. So many fond memories thanks to that rag-tag band of internet cowboys.
Iām excited to pick up the conversation where we left off over on a platform built by the people for the people.