After 15 years on Twitter [I still can’t think of it as X] I made a decision to go away the positioning. I’ll now not publish illustrations, information, or tutorials there. The principle motive is the sturdy and scary push in the direction of extra generative AI and the usage of the customers’ content material to show it. The growing 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 providers out there to automate the method [for a fee] however I’m unwilling to make use of them nor will I delete every publish manually.
[If you know of a way to clean a profile, I would appreciate a comment to let me know how. Thanks!]
Fond reminiscences will stay. I’ve nice conversations and banters with good buddies half a world away [which is not that hard when you are in Australia – everything is far away ;)]. I noticed the works of nice artists and illustrators showcasing what human creativity is able to and benefit from the time scrolling by way of my feed.
Now, I created accounts on Bluesky, Cara, and Mastodon. Let’s see how that works out… in 2025 [as I am still taking a ‘break’ from social media 😉 ]
