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I've stopped actively using Twitter a year ago and it was one of the most important personal changes in years! This thread is for all of you who feel terrible about being here, but still cannot stop. 1/8
Twitter was a very important stepping stone in my career. I met many friends here, built a professional network and it helped me tremendously to promote @zootool and @getkirby over the years. I will forever be thankful for that. 2/8
But Twitter has changed, or maybe the people here have changed, or maybe I have changed – or all of that. In the last few years, I felt more anxious, cynical and depressed every time I opened the app. 3/8
I found myself posting more negative comments. Started engaging in ridiculous fights. Got annoyed every day by some random dudes and their irrelevant opinions. Saw myself hating the world and the tech industry and everything around me more with every post or comment or like. 4/8
Actively using Twitter became toxic to a point that I just wanted to get away from it. It took a while to get there. I still use it to retweet stuff related to @getkirby or my wife's shop and I admit that I got weak with two or three political tweets in 2020. 5/8
But no longer using it as a personal channel made all the difference. I cannot even describe the feeling of freedom and happiness I got back over the last months. I cannot believe how much of an effect it had on my personal well-being. 6/8
As a next step I plan to close this account somewhen this year. Feel free to unfollow me now :) I know all of this seems kind of weird to post here. But maybe it can help someone else to find more freedom and happiness elsewhere. 7/8
Nobody really needs platforms that suck the last bits of positivity out of you. My focus has shifted back to real friendships and smaller, better protected digital spaces that don't focus on attention. Maybe see you there 
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