Requiem for a Bird

Almost four months ago I announced my intention to leave Twitter once I got 8200 followers on Bluesky; I estimated that would take until late June or early July, and that turned out to be more or less correct. At the time I wrote this last Tuesday, my Bluesky follower count was 8170, so by the time you read it I’ll have either gained the remaining 30 followers needed for my benchmark, or will be very close. As I wrote in March, My [Bluesky] posts…routinely get more reach than they’ve had on Twitter in the past decade, and the average quality of the responses is dramatically higher; furthermore, most of the people I used to be interested in reading on Twitter have now moved to Bluesky, so I no longer need to sift through Twitter for content…I plan to mute everyone there who is also on Bluesky because like me, most of those folks cross-post everything, and while I will still check my account so as to reply to messages, I’ll no longer make original posts there… Soon after hitting the…