Today marks a year since my last post on Twitter.
As many know, I was once very active on the platform and connected with countless people there (many of you included!), making it bittersweet to step away from over a decade of community-building. However, in recent years, Twitter has become a hub of misinformation, toxicity, and spam, and continuing to engage there only sustains a chaotic, unsustainable business model that I can no longer support.
Since leaving, I’ve found more rewarding and constructive interactions on other platforms (like here!) for both my personal and business accounts, enabling me to foster safer, more inclusive communities. Unfortunately, Twitter has evolved into an environment that often excludes the voices of different and intersecting minorities, myself included. By staying active there, brands and organisations inadvertently alienate these groups from participating in the conversation.
Starting over on new platforms is challenging, but I encourage others to reflect on how continued engagement on Twitter may contribute to exclusion and risk brand reputation damage. I know many folks here have left there as well, so I'd like to acknowledge your efforts to rebuild your communities here (and in other places) too. It's hard, I totally get it. But it is for the greater good.
CosmicRami /
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