Previously, I had kept my Twitter account to cross-post from Mastodon.

I reasoned that cross-posting to Twitter would encourage others to migrate to the Fediverse.

That probably didn't happen because no one saw my tweets anyway.

But the clincher -- the thing that made me realize that Twitter was just a big waste of time, energy, and bandwidth -- was the realization that my posts are already being cross-posted to Twitter anyway by other people.

Now that I see this, I'm done.

Three years ago, I deleted Facebook and Instagram. It was a huge relief.

No high school bullies trying to friend me on Facebook. No relatives starting arguments over politics. No ex-girlfriends suddenly private messaging me.

My life utterly improved.

Twitter was my last connection with Big Social, and that connection has been severed.

This one was harder to sever than the others. And that's because Twitter changed my life.

In 2009, I (along with a team of developers) built a Twitter client. Ultimately, it was -- and it's still used -- by millions of people.

When Twitter closed it's API to 3rd parties, we were the one excepted from this.

So yeah, I've monetarily benefitted from Twitter's existence. I must absolutely admit that.

And so for very personal reasons, I didn't want to give up my Twitter account -- even as I know they're partially responsible for the rise of Fascism.