Bye bye, twitter

Last Friday I left twitter for good. I've been ruminating about it since Elon Musk took it over, but last week I realized that it was becoming increasingly boring and useless (from the scientific point of view, which I have valued a lot in the last few years). I noticed that more and more I was clicking on the trends because I did not find much worth reading in my timeline. And clicking on trending topics was leading me, invariably, to getting angrier and less focused on the things I like. So I said to myself, that does it; I'm not remaining here producing money for this jerk and putting my mental health in danger. And finally on Friday I deactivated my account and I'm never coming back. I'll miss many people from there, and I'll sure miss info on science I like and/or that overlaps with my own research, but I simply can't take it anymore. It was good while it lasted. Now it's time to move on.

If anyone is interested, I'm now in Mastodon: @anxosan@datasci.social. Will be using it only for research purposes.