@baroquepawel @kkeller @georgetakei

Using a bitly link is a great idea. Simple, but these people are so lacking in imagination even that goes past their limited ability.

@inclusiveWicca @kkeller @georgetakei

Yes...very good point...wise words.

@inclusiveWicca @georgetakei there are many ways to go about reducing one's footprint at Twitter.

I have almost no footprint on Twitter, and don't expect anyone to impersonate me, so I just left it dormant (after they suspended me after I removed my phone number from my profile). Someone like Mr. Takei may want to take the steps you suggested.

@inclusiveWicca @georgetakei

...but simply locking the account may also not be sufficient, since there are rumors that Twitter will deactivate dormant accounts. So Mr. Takei may want to have a bot post to his Twit account periodically to keep it "active".

The main point is to leave Twitter as one's primary microblogging tool. How someone does that is up to them.

@inclusiveWicca @kkeller @georgetakei

That bird site is swan diving so fast that I don't think it's going to matter soon who is being impersonated or not. Let people impersonate, they already are and it's part of what has Twitter loosing credibility.

Is anyone here concerned with who might be impersonating them on Truth Social, or some other clown site?

But I'm just a nobody without a Twitter account. So what do I know?

@inclusiveWicca @kkeller @georgetakei
W/ both sadness & relief, I deleted my account. But I hear you. Protecting one's name & reputation does matter. #ElonMusk supports fascism & is openly ANTI-SOCIAL, so supporting the platform at all is ethically worse than a risk that someone might use a handle that you once used.

Twitter's institutional knowledge & structures are now utterly broken & won't likely recover. IMO putting one's hopes in a future rebirth is just holding onto a lost cause.