ben mosiorI intend to delete all my tweets and wind my Twitter account down (protected, empty, squatting the handle).
Is there anything you'd like me to consider as I begin to move in that direction over the next few weeks?
A little more context for this decision. https://hiredthought.com/2022/11/25/easy-come-easy-go/
Hm. Reading this from Venkatesh Rao: https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-muskening-part-ii
Part of what I've been concerned about is the "sustaining trends I don't want to contribute to" bit.
Undoubtedly I'm overestimating how much the preservation of _my_ tweets in particular contributes there. Doubt it matters at all, tbh.
christina b@hiredthought
There’s an interesting archive option here that I’m going to try https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/editions/twitter-archivist/
There’s an interesting archive option here that I’m going to try https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/editions/twitter-archivist/
@christina fabulous! I was hoping something like this might exist!
Hippojay@hiredthought @christina This is the image that jumped into my mind when I read that original tweet/toot: https://xkcd.com/979
@Hippojay @christina yeah! I know. It hurts.
Ralf Koller@hiredthought @christina another option might be taking a look at tweetback (https://github.com/tweetback/tweetback). based on your twitter archive you are able to build a static site with eleventy.
@rkoller @christina awesome!
Alvaro Jose@hiredthought also you can sync your history into nastodon.
https://github.com/klausi/mastodon-twitter-sync
https://github.com/klausi/mastodon-twitter-sync
Patrick Berry@hiredthought just make sure the bio points to wherever you currently maintain “stuff”
kurtseifried (he/him)@hiredthought put your mastodon id in your name and bio. Maybe ping a tweet about how to move to mastodon.
Thierry de Pauw@hiredthought I was considering the same.
Thank you for this thread! It gives some valuable options.
Thierry de Pauw (@[email protected])
Now that the asshole gives amnesty to the assholes, I'm seriously considering the option to close my Twitter account 🤔
@tdpauw I'm slowly coming around to the idea of leaving the tweets up. With a protected account I don't post to often, I think that is close enough to my goal of not having any part in the currently unfolding Twitter story.
@tdpauw or rather, the marginal moral gain for deleting all tweets is so small that it seems unnecessarily mean to go through with it.
@hiredthought That seems a fair choice. I agree.
Others have also suggested that I turn my Twitter account into a protected account.
Others have also suggested that I turn my Twitter account into a protected account.