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   Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 08:42:03 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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   • DeeAnn Little

   @mcc @chillicampari I got my backup of 12 years of Twitter last year in January and deleted my account and all tweets. I converted the archive to markdown and was ready to post it on my website. But decided against it. Publishing my archive would result in thousands of broken t.co links and missing context as a lot of referenced tweets from others have been deleted too. Twitter is history and tweets should be ephemeral.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 08:42:04 JST mcc

     As a reminder, if you still have Twitter account(s)

     - I recommend you delete them before November 15, at which point a TOS that gives Twitter permission to scrape your posts for "AI" comes into effect. My read (NOT A LAWYER) Is that fully deleting the account is the way to avoid them getting this permission.

     - If you're at all considering that I recommend you request a Twitter archive **THIS SECOND**, as it takes about 24 hours to be emailed to you.

     Details/links:

     https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113324547274823878

     Luci for Chai Tea repeated this.
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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 08:42:04 JST mcc

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     Note that even if you delete your Twitter you can still keep your posts online, by using an archive -> html tool, such as this one which I used for my own archive:

     https://github.com/mcclure/twitter-archiver/tree/cmdline-only

     (I apologize the documentation on this isn't so good).

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 08:52:58 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • DeeAnn Little

     @mcc @chillicampari When Google shut down G+ there was no backup to download. And I had far more posts/interactions there compared to Twitter. I decided that it’s not my task to fix their broken promises. My blog contains a far better public record of content I wanted to share and still works. I’m on my own mastodon instance and configured it to delete my toots after 7 days unless they gained traction. Works for me.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 08:52:59 JST mcc

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     @jwildeboer @chillicampari if you think tweets "should' be ephemeral, that is valid. note that the converter tool i use omits anything that is a reply, and soon i hope to add better controls for QRTs so that those dead links don't occur either.

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 08:59:22 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • DeeAnn Little

     @mcc @chillicampari let’s not mention my Orkut posts — also gone. Diaspora. Identi.ca. Facebook. All the places I had a presence. The two things that remain are my blog and my e-mail archive. Those I save and curate. But when a company or project decides to fold, it’s not my responsibility to make sure all I’ve ever posted there stays accessible. It’s my decision. And most of the time my decision is to not care too much.

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     J. Steven York RESISTS (jstevenyork@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 09:11:47 JST J. Steven York RESISTS

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     @jwildeboer @mcc @chillicampari
     But G+ DID have an archive! I downloaded mine, though i never unzipped it, and I'm not even sure i still have it, which is -- sad...

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     Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 09:11:47 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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     • J. Steven York RESISTS

     @jstevenyork I was never able to download my archive. It always failed for some reason. So I begrudgingly had to give up. The Twitter archive I got was perfectly usable. I used a bit of scripting to download the high-res pictures (archive only had previews in low res) and replace t.co shortened links back to the original URLs. I still have all of that on my NAS here at home. @mcc @chillicampari