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Darius Kazemi

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As I said elsewhere in this thread re: "what if someone takes your old username and impersonates you?"

I've given this a lot of thought and I've realized that it's important for me to not dignify Twitter as a canonical namespace. Let a million impersonators bloom and let Twitter become as canonical as clownpenis.fart/tinysubversions

Man Bartlett 🍓

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@darius been thinking a lot about this lately and what to do, as my old handle there (@man) could easily become…..very bad. but it’s becoming increasingly clear i’m just squatting in a kingdom of ashes

Chuck Jordan

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@darius wait if you’re not clownpenis.fart/tinysubversions, who have I been sending all this Venmo money to?

MarkJurva

@darius The decision I made is to deactivate my account. It doesn't permanently delete until 30 days later. I am checking in every 2-3 weeks and then deactivating. It is interesting after being off of it for nearly a month. I recently checked in. It's odd and uncomfortable. There are things trending there that are somehow boosted in my algorithm trend that I have absolutely no interest in; and I do not see these "trends" percolating out to the real world. It really is an artificial trend bubble.

vruz

@darius I disagree,
This is a moral decision, not one based on what's practical or technically convenient, or the most useful.

You can keep your username and leave your profile completely empty and locked so that nobody steals your identity, nobody links to anything you said, and you don't dignify anything with that.

It's okay for people to use whatever advantage they can gain from their oppressors.

But to each their own, everybody is free to make their own decisions.

Heather :chickadee:

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@darius This is a good way to look at it! ^^

I think it's harder for a lot of folks who have included their Twitter handle in all the media/content they've created over the past few years. So disengaging from an old username isn't as simple for them. :\

Nate Franzen

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@darius in all my years of reading twitter, I've written nothing. But I still feel like retaining the tag, idk.

Here in the fediverse I might write something.

bird

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@darius As someone with a reasonably substantial but deactivated account I've been thinking what to do about it. This is a useful perspective, so thanks.

Ramsey Nasser

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@darius this makes a lot of sense. I just stopped engaging in the platform and posting since he announced his intent to purchase, but I have been hesitant about deleting my account because of breaking links. but maybe I should accept that those links are effectively broken already...