Bye Twitter

 Leaving Twitter for real this time. I tried last year but Mastodon was an epic fail with the first server crashing and me being unable to migrate data to launch a second instance. I'm willing to start over, but that was ridiculous. 

So, I spent the last year using it in small doses. And with the election outcome and X planning to use data in the site to train AI, I am really leaving. Just purged the Off Peak Productions account.

And am starting the purge process for cpd623. It's taken me two days so far to go through 700 of the accounts I followed to try to find them again. I've found a decent number but I'm sad. Not sure exactly how I'm going to delete 11.9K tweets, but I'll try to beat the 11/15 deadline. 

If you find this blog, you can find me most places as cpd623. I'd love to connect. 

Saving cool stuff

Off Peak is leaving Twitter. There is so much spam on X now that it is not worth the time. And so many new followers I don't understand. 

Anyone remember Empire Avenue? I am starting to think somebody thought the gamification process was real. 

I learned the hard way with another job not to delete an account, but only to cleanse it and park it. That way no one can steal your handle.

As part of the curation process, I'm saving some cool things and wondering if I need a link tree :)

https://linktr.ee/efa_editors

https://linktr.ee/bels_editors

https://linktr.ee/Thewriterscoop

https://www.webemployed.com/

https://linktr.ee/mrdeadlier

https://linktr.ee/buffalofambase

https://www.upwork.com/

https://www.fiverr.com/

https://linktr.ee/fwj

I am also sad to see how hard it is to find people I already like on Mastodon and I already lost one iteration to a dead server farm and overwhelmed admin. Pinning my first account (@cpd623@masthead.social) in case it ever comes back. Launching new social feels much harder this time.