The tragedy of the digital commons

X is over. Long live Y

In a recent podcast, Guardian Australia Editor in Chief, Lenore Taylor, made this point about being on Twitter at the moment:

I do wonder if there's a lot of people who are kind of quiet quitting? Sort of like me. I still have a Twitter account, I have occasionally tweeted, I don't use it anymore. I sort of feel like I should get rid of it. I'm a little bit reluctant because I have all these followers on Twitter that I built up since I began using it in 2010. But ultimately, you know, I know the gigs up, and I'm not going to use this thing much anymore. And I think there's probably a lot of users in that in that camp.

I’m sure this resonates with many people (puts hand up).

My Twitter account remains open, and I check in most days and do the odd retweet. In the last week in particular, I’ve only posted a couple times. The DM function, when it works, is still useful to have. I likely won’t close it down completely, but never say never, I guess—so, yeah, “quiet quitting” feels like what …