I’ve recently become active on social media again. From around 2009 to 2018, I was actively using Twitter (now X), years before Elon Musk took over. Many people, including myself, left Twitter and switched to Mastodon. Since 2019, I have not been active on Twitter. However, about a week ago, I started using Mastodon actively. I created an account in 2023 but wasn’t active at first. Now, I’m really enjoying the platform — it reminds me of the early days of Twitter. I even created two Hacker News bots, which uses OpenAI to (a) generate the hashtags and (b) creating posts in the n-gate.com style. See @h4ckernews and @ngate on Mastodon.
With the introduction of the Web 2.0 Twitter interface, my disinterest grew until I eventually abandoned Twitter altogether.
The following is a screenshot I took in the early days of Twitter:
