After 15 years on Twitter (I nonetheless can’t consider it as X) I made a decision to go away the location. I’ll not submit illustrations, information, or tutorials there. The primary motive is the sturdy and scary push in the direction of extra generative AI and using the customers’ content material to show it. The rising racism, misinformation, hate, and intolerance, the insane numbers of bots selling a story that I don’t agree with, and an proprietor’s questionable agenda and ambitions make it even simpler to go away.
Not surprisingly, it’s not that straightforward to purge a profile and take away years of tweets. There are companies accessible to automate the method (for a payment) however I’m unwilling to make use of them nor will I delete every submit manually.
(If you realize of a solution to clear a profile, I might recognize a remark to let me understand how. Thanks!)
Fond recollections will stay. I’ve nice conversations and banters with good pals half a world away (which isn’t that onerous if you end up in Australia – every thing is way away ;)). I noticed the works of nice artists and illustrators showcasing what human creativity is able to and benefit from the time scrolling by my feed.
Now, I created accounts on Bluesky, Caraand Mastodon. Let’s see how that works out… in 2025 (as I’m nonetheless taking a ‘break’ from social media 😉 )
