Until now I hadn’t appreciated that were very serious structural problems at Twitter. I thought Elon would make it messy, but it would robustly continue. This below, however, is starting to make me much more concerned.

I came across to Mastodon out of curiosity, fun, sense of opportunity & respect for the concept. Now I’m thinking it’s a vital hedge for us all against serious Twitter risks, including collapse.

@mikegalsworthy
Is it worth shutting down bird accounts for security?
I have endeavoured to keep it firewalled from other stuff, but it does have one of my email addresses attached to the account.
#twitter
#twitterocalypse

@BosunArras @mikegalsworthy if your email address is attached to your Twitter account, it is likely to be “out there” already. I would not bother.

Also, your data would be kept for a while by the company before being anonymised so deleting it now won’t have any sort of impact.

@moystard @mikegalsworthy
Fair enough - it is a single instance read-only address anyway (twitter[at]my.domain - for exactly this reason!).