Deleting Twitter and Reddit account
Last April, I left my Twitter account, but without deleting it, to keep more than 10 years of posts for archiving (tutorials, brushes, threads, etc...). I also wanted to occupy the namespace to avoid seeing an account doing impersonation. Then I uninstalled the app, stopped reading my TL, and put all this in the background...
But when a friend told me yesterday that it was a good thing I had left Twitter early, I felt bad that I still had that dormant account.
I deleted it as soon as I got home.😺
And then today, someone reminded me in the comments about my Reddit account. I deleted it as well.
If you meet me on Reddit or X, you can be sure it is impersonation now.
In this case, please report.
(Ps: I'm not posting this by the way to try to snowball anything, or influence anyone. It's just a report of my personal cleaning.)
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chartier@toot.cafe
You’re doing the good work.
★Fiamoa_McBenson@mamot.fr
Yeah, félicitations!
★JonathanMM@mastodon.social
Tu peux demander une archive complète à twitter si tu veux garder tout ce que tu as écrit ;)
★LonM@vivaldi.net
As far as archiving, as long as _you_ downloaded a copy of your data before deactivating, you can always re-upload anything important later.
★My twitter data archive didn't have anything interesting, but all the media is present and the tweets were well formatted in JSON.
omasanori@mstdn.maud.io
You can self-host your tweet archive with tweetback or such if you want, btw.
2 ★raspbeguy@gugod.fr
so how about the username that isn't protected anymore?
davidrevoy
@raspbeguy I'll see. I'll probably should repost this toot on my blog so it is easier to refer in case someone pretends to be me on X.
(je porterai plainte contre X! 🥁 Tss! 🤣 )
2 ★eskuero@mstdn.io
I was considering doing this to my reddit account.
I feel at home on Lemmy now and leaving lots of content I contributed there doesn't hurt the platform.
davidrevoy
@eskuero Good reminder about Reddit.
Take your time with your account, only do the deletion if you feel you'll have no regrets about it. And not because of pressure of a group. Just for personal cleaning, as cleaning desk, a disk, etc...
I still have mine. But it is also in quarantine for a very long time.
And bang, summer cleaning continues! I remember being proud of the 1.6K karma thing at one point. I'm so easy to buy with gamification and points like that. 🤦
Deleted.
kevingranade@tech.lgbt
@eskuero thanks for the measured take on this. I've stopped posting there, but I haven't gotten around to archiving and scrambling my posts because I have an extremely bad case of LIFE right now.
lenkotarski@urusai.social
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johan@qoto.org
Request all personal data archive first!
davidrevoy
@johan Thanks for the advice, I did! https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/110820865560393033
ZoidbergForPresident@mastodon.xyz
Can't delete any of my two locked accounts...
astrovore@mstdn.games
if you're interested in re-hosting your archive for yourself, posterity, or whatever, I recommend this tool by @darius https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/
★davidrevoy
@astrovore @darius Thank you for the tool, bookmarked!
TranshumanBlues@mstdn.social
I suppose the X branding stands for all those eX-twitter users.
★juhele@cztwitter.cz
nice to meet you again here. Pepper and Carrot is a matter of my heart - I love cats and also fantasy. My favorite episode is the one with summoning dark entities / demons just to attend that birthday / tea party. 😜
★davidrevoy
@juhele Thank you 🙂
★jcolag@mastodon.social
Dumping these services is a good choice. Personally, I keep mine on the off-chance that someone from my past tries to contact me there, but also because it feels like poking in my nose once a month to see that I have no notifications and leaving feels more costly to them than freeing up space.
But "my" Twitter is noow 99.99% the backup that I posted to my website...
★neonriser@social.yesterweb.org
As a second-hand witness to Twitter’s downfall due to the despotic rulership of someone who isn’t smart enough to actually understand how technology works, I understand not deleting the account due to impersonation concerns. But I also understand deleting it: I don’t think anyone would pretend to be someone else if there is no people left to fool.
★Azurewhitewind@sfba.social
Honestly, I thought about doing the same...
It's so bad right now and I'm not missing much except keeping contact with some people other than that, it's just not that good.
I'm enjoying Mastodon and sites like Misskey, and Krita forums are pretty cool as well! So glad there are other sites to post art and such to! :^D
★rocky_mount@mastodon.social
I suppose I'm one of the lucky few who never had a Twitter account. Even before Elon Musk purchased the company, I felt like I had no reason to use Twitter. I also avoid "free" services that use data mining and other practices to put my habits and life up for sale. I felt left out when I left Facebook the first time, but I never looked back after leaving for the second time.
lesateliersphv@mastodon.top
Mieux vaut tard que jamais. Félicitations David!
★davidrevoy
@lesateliersphv Merci !
rwdmiha@mastodon.social
Both of my restricted accounts are impossible to delete.
https://basketballstarsgame.io
Hitclubexposed@mastodon.social
https://www.callupcontact.com/b/businessprofile/Hitclub/9296040
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https://www.metooo.io/u/hitclubexposed
https://www.openrec.tv/user/hitclubexposed/about
https://openprocessing.org/user/467919/?view=sketches&o=1#topPanel
https://tap.bio/@hitclubexposed/cards/
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