George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽My mastodon link at my pinned tweet on Twitter is now warning anyone who clicks on it that the sight may be “unsafe.”
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.
kkeller@georgetakei are you going to ditch Twitter soon? It seems like now is a good time to give it up completely.
inclusive Wiccayes but the thing to do is to lock your account, not delete it - because after 30 days that username becomes available again, enabling trolls to move in and impersonate you.
Niki@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.
Leon Rodgers 🌉@kkeller @inclusiveWicca @georgetakei Please note that Elon plans to implement account expiration features, requiring you to keep your account active so it's best to make it clear online that you don't use twitter and just abandon it altogether.
Dinese@leon @kkeller @inclusiveWicca @georgetakei he is also in talks to sell user’s locations to advertisers 🙄, oh the hypocrisy!
...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.
Good to know, thanks! Yeah I have a Zapier thing set up to post my blogposts and YouTube videos to Twitter, and then a crossposting tool to post them to Mastodon, so that will also prevent my account being considered dormant.
Journeyman ☠️@inclusiveWicca @kkeller @georgetakei
I've been using a crossposter, but I recently set it so it only posts one way, from mastodon to the bird site but not the other way around.
Kalon@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?
@batyalee 🌿@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.
@batyalee @kkeller @georgetakei
Agreed, it's a difficult situation. I am not hanging on because I think there's a chance Twitter will recover, but because it seemed the best option for now.