flexghost.I slept great after deleting my Twitter account last night.
Something you should know…
Twitter's very existence depends on mDAU. This data—licensed to business, governments and anyone interested in purchasing it—is counting on people using Twitter daily.
There is no “stay and fight.” This is a fallacy. Staying literally lines the pockets of the (now) alt-right twitter.
The more interactions and likes and account has, the more personal information you inadvertently generate.
Not a big account? The app tracks you even when closed. You’re still contributing to its existence.
Tell your friends. Treat twitter like a Simpson’s Halloween episode. Want to kill the monster? Delete the app. “Just don’t look”
Ice Nine@flexghost Issue hereis that bad actors can pick up your handle. An alternative is to delete all tweets and lock. No bad flexghost then.
@IceNine lol. You mean no good flexghost? The imposter would need to be an opposite.
@flexghost well I never thought of that. Bit like someone wanting to impersonate a tractor with bugger all followers I guess. Main reason I even keep mine is to grab Mastodon handles as they come up and add them here.
@IceNine there are a ton of apps to discover people on mastodon you had on Twitter. Literally, no reason to keep your Twitter.
@flexghost I would do except there's a couple of people who use no other communication that I know of.
@flexghost Oh and I just remembered, there's one dumb right-winger who posts there with his cooker views and racist opinions, then wonders why businesses he doxxes and complains about suddenly stop interacting with him. Including an entire supermarket chain which had trespassed him and he was trying to negotiate access to again. Oopsi.