Yesterday I got nostalgic about Twitter circa 2012-2014 and realised there is never going to be anything like that anymore. Even if I treat it as a feature that we have multiple competing options now, I still miss the days it was fun.

I could treat Twitter as my personal Quora. With a decent amount of followers, I always got an answer for my questions. And it was fun like nothing ever was or will be for someone who likes to read and write. I got several clients from there and one job, couldn’t have asked more.

Now, talking about mostly Finnish text-form social media, we have a small crowd of nerds in Mastodon, but nothing like even close to being a critical mass, we have some of the culture folks and journalists in Bluesky, and Threads has turned into millennial Facebook where socially active people meet other socially active people.

All have their upsides, but none have the same feel either because of we didn’t get everyone migrated (Mastodon, Bluesky) or that people don’t want it to be Twitter (Threads)