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So, this is probably the most contentious poll I've put on Mastodon to date.

Partly it's the structure. I sometimes do a format with a statement then options to agree or disagree. Other times, I do a question with options to answer yes or no. I do this interchangeably, picking whichever is clearer.

In this case, I think a lot of people took it to mean that I was making the statement, because it's what I believe. That elicited a lot of emotion!

In the future, I'll tend towards questions.

In this case, I'm a qualified no.

I think participating in the Twitter ecosystem is net evil for the world. It's a system that runs on content, and generating content for that system is being complicit with a very bad company.

But I don't think everyone's ready to extract themselves 100% from that ecosystem. Some people might need to keep up contacts there. Posting there and here, minimizing posts there, providing exclusive content here, are all good strategies.

"Calling out", or "name and shame", is also a really strong response. I don't think I'm there yet, even with individuals and organisations that should be supporting this network.

I'm at a point, now, where I'm pretty disappointed to see friends here posting there. And I've told one or two as much, privately.