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.
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.
X, instagram, FAcebook and, of course, Reddit.
The best moment to delete your Twitter account was ten years ago. The second best is now.
“Moment” has multiple meanings, but one meaning is a synonym of a literal second.
Every moment, then, is the (Now.InSeconds() - BestMoment.InSeconds()).ToString() + “th” best time to delete your Twitter account.
I deleted mine the day after Musk took it over, which is somewhere in the middle I think lol
It is very silly question. Pedophiles would.
If you haven’t already quit then a whole lot of people have already made a whole lot of assumptions about your character.
And then there’s others who have been judging you all, the entire time, for ever using Twitter. It was always garbage, I never understood why it took off.
And those people are morons so why should I care
Anyone saying that still being on X means you’re a nazi is a lunatic and should not be allowed in a debate
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
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.
You don’t like screaming your opinion out into the void?
Like
I declare bankruptcy!
Never had one.
Samezies
Already did. Years ago.
Never had one, because it always sucked.
Idk why not using hell sites is so hard for people.
Why dont companies and governments switch to Mastodon instead?
They should return to RSS feeds
That’s basically what AT protocol (Bluesky) is
Mastodon is great for certain things, but not great as a broadcast medium. A European AT Protocol implementation is a better solution https://www.eurosky.social/
I think they want a bigger reach than both of us when they put out public statements.
Honestly they should get off all social media and just post announcements on their own websites not subject to billionaire influence & not having to deal with trolls.
Did it once that loser bought the platform. I use Bluesky.
@CircaV @Europellinore Personally, I’m using Mastodon over BlueSky and I wonder why it has not got the same attention as bluesky :
- It’s decentralized and you can host your own, to help with data safety
- This also prevents it from turnuing into another twitter since if that happens, you can just host an old version or fork the code and continue updating it
- It’s compatible with activitypub, so you can post and reply on Lemmy from a Mastodon account, like this one!But yeah, it’s pretty annoying to switch from one platform to another since your followers are not likely to do the same. Maybe that’s why?
I tried mastodon. I guess I didn’t try hard enough. I will revisit.
got banned before that shitshow. thankfully. only lasted a few months. Rs are so fragile.
Deleted my twitter account a decade ago when I commented on a Canada Proud twitter post that resulted in months of non-stop harassment. It’s always been this, they’ve just been turning up the heat year on year, and now people realize it’s boiling.
If your user name is closely tied to your online identity, I am hesitant to delete if they recycle the usernames and some total nut job takes your old handle and people think you’ve gone off the deep end - just a thought.
This is definitely an aspect of social media in general. An argument can be made to register your profile and let it lie dormant just to avoid it being hijacked. Hijacking has been an issue in BlueSky during the Twitter migration bursts. Sure - the companies can use the registration for statistics, and the decision to register is somewhere between performance and personal integrity.
Understandable, especially when there might be a lot of links to the profile around the internet. However, in that particular case it’s still possible to delete all content, contacts / follows, followers, and profile images and descriptions etcetera, make the profile private, and give it some semi-permanent dead existence, or delete if a year later or so.
What if we start referring to 𝕏 as “that child porn site” in a mainly neutral tone? Would that normalize it? I’d hope it would make people look inwards, but idk if 𝕏philes in 2026 have that capacity.
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Those techbros actually have an unicode character?
I will now proceed to facepalm myself in a corner.
What’s X? Did you mean Twitter?
it’s X, Twitter already died years ago, we need to stop pretending it was still the same as back then.
You’ve obviously missed the joke.
It’s funny to call it Twitter because Elongated Muskrat went on a huge tirade of “it’s not Twitter! It’s X!”
Then we should call it the CP and nazi social media
Why not both? Both is good. Anything but what he wants it to be called.
I tend towards calling it simply “the hellsite” most times
that works too, my point is it’s better to associate it as a worse platform now rather than let people still cope that it is what it was to incentivize them to leave it for good.
What X account? Or Bluesky for that matter…
