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…I'm currently trying out an account on a different instance, and will likely redirect this one soon. You shouldn't have to do anything.
I thought about setting up my own instance, but I'm not quite ready to do that just now. Maybe when GoToSocial is more mature.
Defederation is a feature, not a bug. Yes, it makes the network messy, but human social interaction is messy. Freedom of association means freedom of dis-association.
When I joined Mastodon in 2017, I picked mastodon.social because it was one of the larger instances, with good uptime, and I wanted one that would be likely to stick around.
Fast forward 5 years, and the sudden growth in user numbers this year (thanks Elon!) has resulted in it becoming problematically large. There have been issues with moderation, leading to some other instances defederating from it.
It's also not good for the Fediverse to have a few huge servers. So…
Update: It seems it doesn't delete *all* tweets. If you know the URL of an ancient tweet, or can find it using search, you can still go to that URL and see the tweet.
However, it does make your profile page show up with no tweets and no way to page back further.
To truly delete everything, there's a commercial service https://tweetdelete.net/
For those looking to delete their Twitter history, I found this tool to work:
Unlike most solutions it's free and doesn't require a developer API token.
@Bogusmeatfactory My all-time favorite is "A Mind Forever Voyaging". I've replayed that through several times — and also read through the source code to see what I might have missed.
I also really liked "Plundered Hearts", which I think suffered commercially from insecure men not wanting to play it.
Least favorite adventure game: Probably "The Pawn". Wandering characters didn't work well with 1980s tech, and the fancy parser got in the way more than it helped.
@[email protected] @timbray My suspicion is that Twitter's design optimizes average engagement, but that people like those in this thread are decidedly not average.
Kinda like how radio stations play pop music chosen to optimize popularity with the average person, so I stopped listening to the radio.
Or how movie studios started churning out superhero movies and other effects reels optimized for commercial success, and I stopped going to the movies. (Even before COVID-19.)
Supermarket conversation with my wife:
"We've gotta get these."
"Why?"
"Because they're updog."
"I don't get it."
"They're made from updog!"
"What is updog?"
So, $4.78 well spent.
@[email protected] On a related note, I still can't work out what Robert Fripp might be like in person. Sometimes he seems stern and perhaps a little pretentious, sometimes very self effacing, and sometimes dressed up in a bee costume dancing around his back garden. It's very confusing.
I did discover I had completely the wrong impression about Don Joyce, but sadly only after I'd missed my chance to chat with him.
