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 ★TheDailyBurble@mastodon.social
Not everything has to be a culture war. I know this is an unpopular opinion. Twitter looks like a wreck to me too, but my loyalty is to my days, not whether I feel bad to keep up with a few old friends I made there.
If you have a great following this fine distinction might be hard to make, but worth a think about if it's just running after some purity issue. I'm hardly there now, but I do still go and say hello now and again, it's not hard.
raghukamath@mastodon.art
I was about to the same yesterday but kept it for the name. I think it is time for nuking it. I had taken the archive long time back
★davidrevoy
@raghukamath I took an archive in November 2022, 359MB. For personal archiving, it's really ok.
I should check it, I just did to see if I still had it, and found a meme I did with Noutty (my cat) when he was still a kitten.
I probably need to save only this fun part. I'll grep all jpg in this directory and see what I can find.
davidrevoy
@raghukamath The post in the screenshot "I wrote a little review of the Gnome calibrator on G+" 😆 Really, it comes from another era.
3 ★raghukamath@mastodon.art
Aah the goold old g+ I remember having fun chat with krita artists community on it. I think @Quiralta was on it too.
As for the social networking I am fossil from the orkut days :)
★raghukamath@mastodon.art
you shared your screenshot of deactivation. here is mine :)
🖼️ ffbd2ed5892c65a0.png ★davidrevoy
@raghukamath :blobcheerbounce: :blobcheerbounce: :blobcheerbounce:
f4grx@chaos.social
@raghukamath be careful, the archive still contains twitter shortened links and does not includes high resolution images. You can get those with a python tool.
★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 ★f4grx@chaos.social
how long before someone impersonates you? Thats why I still keep mine.
davidrevoy
@f4grx Good question. I'll see if it happens what I can do about it. My disgust about still being somewhere on X was stronger than thinking about this, this time.
4 ★f4grx@chaos.social
I understand that. I am close to deleting it too.
★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.
riedler@catcatnya.com
same here. I left this january, because it was eating my free time like candy back then, and deleted my account a few weeks ago, over the whole closed API thing. I think I had around 40k karma when I left, which is both impressive and shameful for me.
davidrevoy
@riedler Let's just remember the "Impressive" part of it, because it is. 😉 👍
★UkeBLCatboy@mastodon.social
@eskuero As long as the danmei novel subreddit is so full of good reccs I'll keep it no matter what lol. That's such a fun sub. :D
I didn't delete tw either and won't, lots of fandom stuff and fanart stuff still only there. I just use mastodon in addition to it XD Works fine , and I have everything :)
davidrevoy
@UkeBLCatboy @eskuero That's a very good strategy and very valid if you find personal balance in it and happiness.
Something that really helped me here; I found a group of Japanese digital painter I liked on Tw (and were a strong reason why I kept my TL too) doing cross post on the Fedi via Misskey.design instance. I don't understand their toots, but I like watching their fresh art.
All in all, I hope my toots about deletion are not read as if I put pressure on adopting any type of behavior.
★UkeBLCatboy@mastodon.social
@eskuero Oh I get you. It's so buggy, once *EVERYONE* is of X, I will def jump too. But for now, all the anime conventions are only there, 99% of the cosplayers, artists, etc too.
Mastodon is *definitely* becoming more livelier, and I actually spend more time here now, but fact is that 95% of planet Earth is still there. XD
(And also not on threads/bluesky. Which are of course basically the same thing as here - same protocol/compatible and also federated)...
★brianch@mastodon.social
@UkeBLCatboy @eskuero Just a small correction, but threads/bluesky are conceptually quite different from here (especially threads, considering it's from Meta). About the protocol, Bluesky uses another one and threads just has planned support for ActivityPub (the one mastodon uses). But more importantly, they are for profit organizations.
Edit: I'm curious now about these Japanese digital painters hehe Can you share which profiles you follow, David? :)
★UkeBLCatboy@mastodon.social
@brianch @eskuero Yeah, I mean they work the same way for the end user. Federates, decentralized, etc.
So for 99% of people - the people we were talking about - "same" XD
Including me tbh. As I said, I just go where fandom is and people are. Which now is also here, and I like it, so yet another account it is.
But especially once threads and mastodon are integrated (which they <WILL> be, since AFAIK EU law will MANDATE interoperability soon, and mastodon GmbH is in EU), to 99% of
UkeBLCatboy@mastodon.social
@brianch @eskuero people, it will be the same. Especially since I figure threads, mastodon.social, or whatever 904389043328 instances people make on threads as on mastodon (all using the same protocol as you say so interoperable) will just be another instance to join. People will be able to follow people and see one TL anyway.
So, for 99% of people, it will be "new twitter". Nobody cares how the app works - they follow cosplayer and talk about weeb shit. XD
UkeBLCatboy@mastodon.social
@brianch @eskuero if it looks like a duck, talks like a duck, and works with other ducks, it's a duck.
I know the minutia - I have a comp sci degree - but I meant that for so to say "normal" people, it will all be the same. Like those Japanese artists they mentioned, 99% certainly. They just gonna... art. And share it with people. On the internet. On literally whatever app(s) everyone ends up using, and without caring.
(same for me tbh. Which is why I am on everything).
UkeBLCatboy@mastodon.social
@brianch @eskuero Personally, I am happy with that EU law that will make interoperability mandatory <soon>. less apps/TL's to click/open/go through to talk with everyone, and makes it easier to keep track/organise! :D
★davidrevoy
@brianch
💜 List of cool Fedi artists:
@ysd
@senoaxxnoa
@haikeibu
@hatoneayumu@misskey.design
@cyasha
@Qooo003
@UkeBLCatboy @eskuero
4 ★UkeBLCatboy@mastodon.social
@brianch @ysd @senoaxxnoa @haikeibu @hatoneayumu @cyasha @Qooo003
(Original message has been truncated: read the complete original message here.)brianch@mastodon.social
Ohh, thanks a lot!!
@ysd @senoaxxnoa @haikeibu @hatoneayumu @cyasha @Qooo003 @UkeBLCatboy
(Original message has been truncated: read the complete original message here.) ★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.
me_the_fl00f@cybre.club
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @eskuero@mstdn.io It is not only the -- gamification -- this also exists in another kind at the fedi (who don´t likes to get a rotating reaction ... ohh, I mean a star at Mastodon ;-) ). It is the thing that you loose something like old posts and things you created (that you often can´t export them is also a part of it). And also your nick aka brand.
lenkotarski@urusai.social
W
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...
me_the_fl00f@cybre.club
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Good decission ... I was never there ;-)
★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
★sgued@pouet.chapril.org
Have you requested an archive so that you could re-upload your posts on your own website at some point? Like https://tweets.jvns.ca/ for example.
★davidrevoy
@sgued Hey, Yes, I have an archive. Thanks for the example! I'm still checking my archive to see if it really worth maintaining a subdir in my website with all the old Twits.
★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.
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