A Quieter Place: Why textlog Reminds Me of the Twitter I Actually Miss

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:01 -0800

I left Twitter before it became X. Not in some grand, principled exit — no manifesto post, no “see you on Mastodon” farewell thread. I just quietly stopped opening the app one day, and never really went back. By the time Elon Musk’s name was on the masthead, I was already gone. So when people ask if I miss “old Twitter,” I have to clarify: I don’t miss what it became right before the sale. I miss what it was years before that — a smaller, weirder, more sincere place.

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A Quieter Place: Why textlog Reminds Me of the Twitter I Actually Miss