I cannot emphasize this enough, if you've ever used Twitter credentials to log into anything else you need to figure out how to get out from under that as soon as you can.
Well that's a terrifying thought.
@mhoye long live “sign in with email”!
@ngsmcphrsn @mhoye Yes. I also create unique email addresses for the service, twitter@, facebook@ on my domain.
@Myphatself @ngsmcphrsn @mhoye I do something similar, and apart from anything else it's enabled me to see at a glance which companies have let my details get into the hands of phishing artists (looking at you, Adobe, as one prominent example) and trivial to then block all email to that address.
@mhoye For me that was Disqus and Quora. I made sure to get those taken care of ASAP.
@mhoye @[email protected] in addition, services that currently support Twitter auth need to migrate their users to other auth services ASAP! Eek
@tchambers do this by revoking app permissions in your Twitter account
@techaddressed @tchambers remind me how to do this.
@maraleia @tchambers look under "Settings and Privacy" then "Security and account access"
@techaddressed @tchambers thank you, doing this now
@techaddressed @tchambers I had so many apps to delete there. OMG.
@maraleia @techaddressed @tchambers I believe you go to Settings > Security and Account Access > Apps and Sessions > Connected Apps. Remove everything on that list
@mhoye I'm glad I never realized you could sign into things with Twitter. 🤣
@mhoye ah damn it. I forgot all about this.
@mhoye there's a place where you can revoke access to all those apps, easy
@plsburydoughboy @mhoye that's not what the post is about, some sites have a "sign up with twitter" option and if you've used that you need to go to those sites and change your sign in to be with email instead or you may get locked out, revoking access will just lock you out sooner
@wolfie @plsburydoughboy Thanks, Wolfie; that's what I mean. Plsbury, the the place you can see that lets you revoke that access is the list you need, but if you want to opposite of "revoke", that is, you want to keep using it even if Twitter fails - you need to walk that list and set up alternative login methods so you can keep accessing them.
@mhoye damn. Is v good point sir.
@mhoye so pleased I’ve never done that with Twitter or any other platform. Mainly from a privacy perspective.

@mhoye Good reason why people shouldn't rely on centralised signin. I bought my own domain and found an email host that allows for easy migration (Migadu) and I now use various aliases with generic addresses to sign up to stuff. If Migadu goes down, I still own the domain, so all I have to do is point it at a different server. And if my domainregistrar goes under, I can transfer my domain to another registrar. It's also cheap at ~12$ a year for the domain and 19$ per year for email.

Ofc, cheap is relative. But to me it's worth it to not be locked into a centralised system.

@mhoye for me that's imgur

I immediately contacted their support
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@mhoye I can't even change preferences any more. App is broken