Migration from Twitter
So, I created my first fediverse account on November 5th, anticipating the Muskrat's imminent destruction of all that I still found valuable in twitter.
He has not disappointed me, alas.
On the 13th of January the 3rd party app API stopped working. So I can no longer avoid the Nazis, spam, and advertising by using Tweetbot.
I'm now conducting my final Twitter account archival sweep. I'm not deleting @cstross, but it's going into deep freeze (monthly pings only).
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If I delete my twitter account some jackass can swipe my name. So not going there. If it stays inactive for too long it might be deleted anyway, so I'm going to tweet a single character once a month. And I'll also use it for commercial announcements—new books, convention appearances, and so on.
But as a social outlet, @cstross@twitter is now defunct. @cstross is my home now.
(I reserve the right to reconsider this policy once @elonmusk fucks the hell off.)
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@cstross
Mr Stross, dear chap.
Perhaps consider twitter as dead and buried. Folks may create fake accounts, but that is just the death-throes of a dying beast, soon to be corpse in the Astral plane.
The fake accounts will just be one more reason why folks will flee the platform- you wouldn't fret over someone impersonating you on Myspace or Voat. Rip off the bandage and make @cstross your official voice.
And welcome to the fediverse. It is more githzerai than githyanki
a fan since FiendFolio in the 1980's
Charlie Stross
Kostchei