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  • Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT to CJ on Thu Feb 6 08:02:00 2025
    CJ wrote to Digital Man <=-

    I deleted mine within a week of him purchasing it. Seriously
    considering doing the same to Facebook (again). Took a three year
    hiatus from it a few years ago...created another account about the time that I shut down Twitter. Should have left well enough alone. The
    break was the best thing for me. :)

    I'm really enjoying the fediverse - specifically, mastodon. It reminds
    me of the old identi.ca days (the authors of it and one of the authors
    of ActivityPub were old BBS callers/sysop friends of mine, Ratsnatcher
    and Mr. Bad... ) Right now, it's mostly political-free, ad-free, mostly
    techie people, artists and writers in my feed. You can start your own
    server or find a server with a shared interest as a basis.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT to Abortretryfail on Sun Feb 9 09:36:00 2025
    Abortretryfail wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I'm also on Facebook, but the problem I'm having lately is that my feed
    is 100% politics right now from both sides of the political spectrum.
    I've snoozed almost 75% of my friends for a month, and it's still politics-heavy.

    My Facebook feed is mostly high-school friends who got in early and
    didn't experiment with other social networks. I suppose I'm the edge
    case, approaching 60 and still experimenting with social networks...




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT to Nightfox on Sun Feb 9 19:49:00 2025
    Re: Re: Deactivated my Twitter/X account
    By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Feb 09 2025 03:43 pm

    There were a couple others I had used before Facebook - MySpace was one of them. I also used LiveJournal. My friends I had on both of those all moved to Facebook though.

    I used all those, along with Orkut, Tribe.net, Friendster, and others that I've forgotten about. The rest of my high school friends weren't as techy and didn't go anywhere except Facebook.

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