The best time to leave Twitter might be in the past, but the second best time to leave Twitter is today. Space Karen is now actively advocating violence against transgender people and anyone so much as acknowledging or assisting them. Twitter is a Nazi bar now and no matter how much you try to curate your space, you being there helps prop the fascists' platform up by legitimizing it.

Twitter could have gone to pieces for any number of reasons, be it a slow decay, the general treadmill of enshittification, a puritan crusade, or simply ceasing to be trendy. Instead it was being bought out by a apartheid billionaire with a totalitarian vision. He has vast resources and his ears are highly receptive to the people willing to burn our world and everyone in it so they can rule over the ashes. It's not going to get better.

Request your archive, tell your friends where they can find you, wait for 24 hours, download the archive, run a tool such as Tim Hutton's Archive Parser (https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser) then close your account. It's not much, but it does reduce his power if the community that produces quality content and interaction that draws eyeballs takes its ball and goes home. Without us, Twitter is but a wasteland of bots, spam, fascists, and spam in a rising sea of red ink.

And so we face The Splintering. Whether we want to deal with it or not, the time has come.

Pull the plug.