Today's gentle side project, because I'm at home sick, is finally killing off my Twitter account. Not because I've remained active over there all this time - god no, I functionally bailed on that dumpster fire years ago - but because that task is so relatively unimportant it's been waiting for a low-energy, low-stakes day like today to happen.

There's a few threads to come over, a few dangling anchors around the internet to update. Some fun stuff will get posted in the coming few days.

One meta-thing to come over is the realisation I had that paying a regular subscription to use a service is actually the right thing to do. If your Mastodon server admin has a link somewhere to throw them a few bucks a month in return for being there, please do it.

"If the service is free, you're the product" works both ways - if you directly support the things you use, they are less likely to resort to extracting value from you as a means to survive.

@timixretroplays this is one of the first things I did with my server admin.