deltaomega

Interesting, it’s the opposite for my feed. For 10 years I came to twitter for the exchange of ideas, learned so much about tech and business, developed friendships and connections that changed my life.

Now every time I open my feed it reminds me of trash tv. Ads for weed gummies every 8th tweet, crazy rhetoric and political content from extremist politicians I’ve often never even heard of, Elon musk himself - who I don’t follow - pushed into my face, forcing me to see his angry tweets, first, every time I load the app.

Beyond the drama, I used to get a lot of value in reading threads and now the comments are all garbage? Finding anything useful requires me scrolling past a long list of reply guys and often what just seems like spam.

It genuinely makes me sad to lose such a useful product :(.

This exactly. I tell people if they’re moving due to a desire for cheaper housing, there are many options (Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia, etc.) that make much more sense than Texas.

I’m one of those that moved my family from CA to Austin during the pandemic. We wanted cheaper housing and more space, and told ourselves Texas is the future.

We pretty quickly learned that Texas does not feel like the future. The traffic was surprisingly worse than where we moved from (Orange Co), we had an incident with some nut that harassed us at the grocery over wearing a mask, and the weather was absolutely unbearable. We don’t drink or watch sports so it felt like there was nothing to do besides sit inside our air conditioned home in a quiet neighborhood and occasionally get really good barbecue.

We made it almost 3 years, but but the bullet and moved back. California has its shortcomings too, but we have a newfound appreciation for it and will probably never leave.