Greg WilsonNov 6, 2022
If you are leaving Twitter, do not deactivate your account. Instead, please set it to private. (If you deactivate it, someone else may be able to claim it in future, and identity squatters are a problem no-one needs.)
Show threadLambert HellerNov 6, 2022
@gvwilson
First of all, thank you. It's the right time again to discuss how to #leave a service like Twitter.
I'd strongly prefer to leave your Twitter profile open, though. Here's my reasoning. Past Twitter posts are sometimes not sufficiently bei Web Archives (yet). Findable, referable, potentially useful (you just never know, right?) public knowledge on the web shouldn't go dark. Yes, this is an issue of cultural heritage preservation, nothing less.
Thanks for considering!
Show threadLambert Heller
@gvwilson By the way, super happy to see you here. I'm a huge fan of the Carpentries, from my perspective this is a bright model for how education on digital things can be organised today.
Nov 6, 2022 at 4:24pmWeb
Show threadGreg WilsonNov 6, 2022
@Lambo thank you - I haven't had much involvement since 2017, but am really pleased by all the great work the team is doing - glad you've found it useful.