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diff --git a/_drafts/bye-twitter.md b/_drafts/bye-twitter.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7841667..0000000 --- a/_drafts/bye-twitter.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -language: en -date: 2019-06-25 13:14:15 +0100 -title: Bye Bye Twitter ---- - -So, I deleted all of my Twitter accounts. - -My main account, my AD account and the account I posted photos of food I cooked. - -The latter I haven't posted on in a while anyway, since I have a Telegram group for that now. I stopped using my main account long ago. It stressed me too much. It took too much of my free time. I always had the feeling I _had to_ keep up with it. Now, deleting it was only the consequence. My AD account I still used occasionally, but keeping only this around felt wrong, too. - -The main trigger for this was Twitter changing its TOS and Privacy Policy every once in a while, and I don't want to read and accept those changes every time. Also, the layout changes, ad insertions, and weird-by-default-trending timeline are annoying too. - -So now I'm completely on Mastodon. [@uvok@vulpine.club](https://vulpine.club/@uvok). - -I also tried installing Friendica on a shared webhosting to run an instance myself, but it threw weird error messages I didn't find a solution to. Also, administering and moderating seem to be time-consuming, so... nah. diff --git a/_posts/2020-01-02-bye-twitter.md b/_posts/2020-01-02-bye-twitter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89f82e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2020-01-02-bye-twitter.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +layout: post +language: en +date: 2020-01-02 14:01:15 +0100 +title: Bye Bye Twitter +--- + +So, I deleted all of my Twitter accounts. + +My main account, my AD account and the account I posted photos of food I +cooked. + +The latter I haven't posted on in a while anyway, since I have a Telegram group +for that now. I stopped using my main account long ago. It stressed me too +much. It took too much of my free time. I always had the feeling I _had to_ +keep up with it. Now, deleting it was only the consequence. My AD account I +still used occasionally, but keeping only this around felt wrong, too. + +The main trigger for this was Twitter changing its TOS and Privacy Policy every +once in a while, and I don't want to read and accept those changes every time. +Also, the layout changes, ad insertions, and weird-by-default-trending timeline +are annoying too. + +So now I'm completely on Mastodon. +[@uvok@vulpine.club](https://vulpine.club/@uvok). + +I also tried installing Friendica on a shared web hosting to run an instance +myself, but it threw weird error messages I didn't find a solution to. Also, +administering and moderating seem to be time-consuming, so... nah. |