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I'm not going to up and close my Twitter account for no reason, but I did just finally get around to opening an account on a Mastodon server. I've been meaning
by mindcrime 4y ago
I'm not going to up and close my Twitter account for no reason, but I did just finally get around to opening an account on a Mastodon server. I've been meaning to start moving more to the Fediverse anyway, so this isn't a complete knee-jerk thing. But all the recent brouhaha over Elon buying Twitter did serve as sort of a nudge to finally take some action in that regard.
I do eventually intend to (at least mostly) wind down my use of all "walled garden" sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc., but I will probably do so gradually. And I may leave the accounts open and populated with a bot that periodically posts a reminder of where I can be found, or something. Not sure yet.
- freedinosaur 4y ago+1 to the winding down by trying to use alternatives, and working on the gaps Facebook Messenger < Signal < XMPP. I have a few stragglers on FB Messenger, but don't have the app installed. Facebook Marketplace < Gumtree. Gumtree at least is searchable without an account. I subscribe to Mastodon and Twitter accounts via RSS. Github < Sourcehut: I only use Github for contributing to other repos. Mobile Linux > Open app stores > closed app store: WIP. :)