I enjoyed using Twitter for ~8 years. It gave me access to news and opinions from groups that aren't covered by traditional media, and it functioned as an RSS f

I enjoyed using Twitter for ~8 years. It gave me access to news and opinions from groups that aren't covered by traditional media, and it functioned as an RSS feed for people I wanted to follow (authors, researchers, etc.) However, I quit Twitter because it wouldn't let me control my own data. I was in the habit of favoriting things that I wanted to follow-up on. Then Twitter changed Favorites to "likes," which wrongly implies I'm endorsing the content. Twitterati know that likes don't necessarily mean anything, but imagine a customs officer looking at my likes, for example. Twitter doesn't provide a method to batch remove all likes, so I tried various 3rd party utilities. The utilities seemed to work initially, but likes would later reappear, even months later, as if restored from a backup. This experience helped me see that silos can never be trusted.