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Two years ago, Elon Musk began transforming Twitter into what is now X, and the ensuing chaos drove a lot of former users elsewhere — elsewhere being several places, including Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and even Facebook or Instagram. And I really need to avoid the black hole that is TikTok — I’ve got too many things on my task list to spend that much time watching short videos of cute cats and angry activists. But honestly, it’s still too much trouble to have strong opinions (especially about something like a video game, haha) where everyone can read them — so the majority of my social media time is spent on a small handful of tightly personal Discord spaces.

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