Tim Lavoie@thenewoil @semiphemeral is coming soon, to help clean up your data before you pull the plug. Helping to test it right now, in fact.
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Cyd
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Hi, my name is Cyd! (I used to go by Semiphemeral.) I can help you claw back your data from Big Tech
Do you want to help test Semiphemeral before it's released? https://semiphemeral.com/do-you-want-to-help-test-semiphemeral-before-its-released/
@webrecorder @makeworld fascinating, I'd love to talk more
Em 
People who use social media other than Mastodon 
:
If you are still using some [BigCorpSocial™️] social media account(s),
I highly recommend maintaining a good data privacy hygiene on there. Especially because of all the data collected from these platforms, most recently, infamously, for scanning all your posts to feed For-Profit-AI-Machine™️
One important step to improve your data hygiene is to delete the older posts that are no longer useful to you (you can do this automatically on Mastodon by the way) 
Many [BigCorpSocial™️] have rendered this task more difficult recently by removing features previously provided to third-party developers.
BUT there is a fantastic desktop app developed by @micahflee coming up for this with a workaround! 
Semiphemeral! 
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Semiphemeral will make it possible for you to delete your older posts from your [BigCorpSocial™️] accounts, according to your preferences.
I don't often recommend tools like this,
but this one is a great one:
Privacy by Design ✅
From a trustworthy source ✅
Top practices for data minimization ✅
Runs locally ✅
I highly recommend it to anyone with social media accounts outside of the Fediverse.
Read on the latest developments here: https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/
Subscribe to get updates: https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/#/portal/signup
Donate so it gets ready faster! 
https://semiphemeral.com/donate/
Follow Semiphemeral on Mastodon: @semiphemeral
#Privacy #DataMinimization #DataDeletion #Semiphemeral #Twitter #X
Now that X is a steaming toxic trashpit, Semiphemeral can't come soon enough
While Elon Musk spreads hate and Trumpism across his platform, I've been hard at work developing Semiphemeral so you can regain control of your data on X. Here's how development has been going, and how the app will work.
@makeworld nope. This is an Electron app with a <webview> element for the embedded browser. It took some time to figure out the best way to make the HTML archive files, but I settled on:
1. Using webContents.savePage (https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/web-contents#contentssavepagefullpath-savetype) to save as MHTML
2. Using mhtml2html (https://github.com/msindwan/mhtml2html) to convert the MHTML file to a single-page HTML file
@forteller ooh that is an interesting idea
@bujiraso thanks! Typo fixed
@notmybackdoorbug this is in response to the latest newsletter https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/
Now that X is a steaming toxic trashpit, Semiphemeral can't come soon enough
While Elon Musk spreads hate and Trumpism across his platform, I've been hard at work developing Semiphemeral so you can regain control of your data on X. Here's how development has been going, and how the app will work.
@farcepest ooh interesting suggestion