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 As I said elsewhere in this thread re: "what if someone takes your old username and impersonates you?" I've given this a lot of thought and I've realized that it's important for me to not dignify Twitter as a canonical namespace. Let a million impersonators bloom and let Twitter become as canonical as clownpenis.fart/tinysubversions 13 comments | Expand all CWs
 @darius wait if you’re not clownpenis.fart/tinysubversions, who have I been sending all this Venmo money to? @darius The decision I made is to deactivate my account. It doesn't permanently delete until 30 days later. I am checking in every 2-3 weeks and then deactivating. It is interesting after being off of it for nearly a month. I recently checked in. It's odd and uncomfortable. There are things trending there that are somehow boosted in my algorithm trend that I have absolutely no interest in; and I do not see these "trends" percolating out to the real world. It really is an artificial trend bubble. @vruz you will notice that I said "it's important for me". Anyone else can do as they please. I am speaking from my experience and in fact was very careful to word my statement in a non prescriptive manner. @darius This is a good way to look at it! ^^ I think it's harder for a lot of folks who have included their Twitter handle in all the media/content they've created over the past few years. So disengaging from an old username isn't as simple for them. :\ @Rheall I object to "isn't as simple for them" because I also did this for ten years of stuff I've made. Totally understand that it's hard though and not for everyone! @darius in all my years of reading twitter, I've written nothing. But I still feel like retaining the tag, idk. Here in the fediverse I might write something.  @darius this makes a lot of sense. I just stopped engaging in the platform and posting since he announced his intent to purchase, but I have been hesitant about deleting my account because of breaking links. but maybe I should accept that those links are effectively broken already... |
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@darius been thinking a lot about this lately and what to do, as my old handle there (@man) could easily become…..very bad. but it’s becoming increasingly clear i’m just squatting in a kingdom of ashes