Also, don’t leave your account unused, delete it. User and follower numbers count.
And least as important, reply (if necessary to another corporate mail address) every email with Twitter/X in the footer, with a kind request to stop promoting and facilitating X.
X, instagram, FAcebook and, of course, Reddit.
Granted, if you have a sizable following there, you could try to get them to make Mastodon/Bluesky/… accounts to follow you off the platform first.
Of course, you should have done that years ago, but better late than never.
But if you have less than … idk, 100 to 1000 followers? You should just switch.
Much better Mastodon than Bluesky.
True, but both are much better than Twitter at the moment.
It is very silly question. Pedophiles would.
The best moment to delete your Twitter account was ten years ago. The second best is now.
Maybe the world could stop doing any business at all with this apartheid Nazi welfare queen? He’s trying to destroy your countries with Nazism and grift your tax dollars while selling out your privacy too
Why dont companies and governments switch to Mastodon instead?
If you haven’t already quit then a whole lot of people have already made a whole lot of assumptions about your character.
I usually say that anyone still using Twitter is a Nazi collaborator, no lame excuse is acceptable. I can now add pedophile support to that.
You use internet which is partly managed by the USA, therefore you collaborate with ICE
Seriously, that’s a dumb take
The internet has no viable alternatives. Shitter has multiple other social media alternatives. There’s no excuse.
Knowingly going to the Nazi Bar makes you a Nazi, full stop
Run by a literal Nazi
In case someone thinks “Oh, he’s just an alt-right troll, he doesn’t actually believe in that stuff”, meet Elon’s grandfather:
He became involved in Canadian politics, backing the technocracy movement, before moving to South Africa in 1950. Over the course of decades, Haldeman repeatedly expressed racist, antisemitic, and antidemocratic views.[1] In South Africa he was a supporter of apartheid and promoted a number of conspiracy theories.
He also supported Technocracy, Inc and the Technate of America https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/technocracy-inc-technate-of-america-1940/
It’s a good day as any to move to Mastodon.
That’s true, but Bluesky is also 100 times better than X and probably a more feasible/realistic alternative for all kinds of companies/sports clubs/government agencies/etc. Although I prefer Mastodon in principle, I am quite sceptical about the chance that it will be seen (by the general public) as such a good alternative to X that they will actually consider themselfs being able to leave X.
The problem with Bluesky is that it has exactly the same kind of legal structure (for-profit company) with the same kind of objective (make lots of money for founders and early investors) as Twitter, thus is just as likely to be bought by a Nazi billionaire.
If you’re leaving X because it turned into a Nazi bar after being bought by a Nazi, going to Bluesky is just setting yourself up for being in a similar situation again in a couple of years.
No, Mastodon. Bluesky is repeating the same mistakes
Repeating mistakes, taking years to drop a platform owned by a nazi to just run into the next US platform ready to be bought by some other billionaire Nazi… nothing was learnt, was it?
For those of us with the knowledge, it’s our responsibility to both sell the idea of Mastodon and help onboard people. On top of that, there’s many guides, at this point, about how to get involved, choose an instance, set up your feeds, etc.
It’s true that Bluesky is a much more seamless experience, because many options are hardcoded or pre-chosen for people, but if we can get people over the hump of making those choices for themselves, they’ll find it a much better place long term. Also, it’s strongly resistant to the antics of bad actors, so it’s a much better choice for governments and other groups. Bluesky does not enjoy the same natural defenses.
Bluesky will turn to shit, just give it time.
The problem with Bluesky is that it’s essentially centralized, with all the related drawbacks.
And its funding is pretty suspect.
Even if you trust the current leadership team, there’s no reason to believe they’ll remain in charge.
Lest be honnest 30 second. Nothing is equivalent to twitter at the time. While i love the fediverse it doesnt have the massive userbase that make it great. It s really funny that you tried to frame it as a social media with built in child abuse tool. Pretty sure child dont have the right to create an account on it and it doesnt have the same effect as instagram has on child. Also totally agree thta making his dumb bot with this capability was stupid but let s be honest, in every way you can do that on any other platform, and i feel it learned at least some numeric hygiene to some ppl.
“It doesn’t have the massive userbase” It would if more people started using it instead of the Xcrement site.
Be me: never had account, never saw why would one want to have it
I signed up years ago when quite a few TV programs I watched would make announcements on Twitter, like when new series were starting and that type of thing. I also liked the idea of following certain institutions and celebs to keep up with their announcements. I was quite disappointed when I noticed a lot of info passing me by - I had encountered the algorithm.
I hadn’t logged in for years, and thought I had deleted my account, until just now when I tried it and found it still active. So, I just deactivated it and in 30 days it will be gone for good.
