As somebody who successfully avoided twitter stuff my whole life - whats the lure of this? Following some folks reading some random brainfarts is not how I imagine spending my time, and that's all I can see on this. Maybe I have just different type of personality than target audience.

Or is it so addictive like social networks seem to be?

I have left X / Twitter now, but while there it gave me good insights, to an extent. If you follow the right people, you get news without intermediate interpretation by journalists. Who the "right people" are is hard to answer, but basically, select people you trust the judgement of.

But.... I am no longer there. Too much noise and distraction drowns the sane voices. And I can't stand Musk any longer.

I went into twitter for the academic side. Transition to baky has been nice. It's often like RSS feeds but I get to interact with my peers.

I tink it totally depends what your niche is. What bugged me about Twitter is that after Musk took over it was no longer mostly RSS feed-like but all the politics came in. That all ranked higher even when not from accounts I don't follow (now I get notifications from Musk even after muting him)

  > Or is it so addictive

AFAIK the ranking is simple. But since everything is open you could filter as you wish. I'm not aware of anyone doing it but I'd like to see this.

Bluesky is 99% bots combined with left-wing fantasy porn. No thanks.

While twatter is mostly bots, right wing, Musk, and populist propaganda. Choose your poison.

I don't get the point of bluesky if mastodon already exists...

why switch one megacorp for another?

people on this site get angry when you ask this question. apparently we need more microblogging sites.