#MastodonGuides Dec 9, 2022
David August @davidaugust has created some nicely illustrated guides to aid in migrating from Twitter to Mastodon.
How to...
Leave Twitter >>> https://bit.ly/howtoscrubtwitter
Find your Twitter people on Mastodon >>> https://bit.ly/howtofindtwitterpeopleonmastodon
Cross-post >>> https://bit.ly/posttweetstomastodon
#twittermigration #mastodontips
More Guides >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#1ad8
@mastodonmigration @davidaugust Yeah, I'm not so sure about any "scrubbing". Facebook pointed out year ago that they never, ever, delete anything. If you delete your account, it becomes invisible to you and the public but your data is never erased.
I expect that Twitter has long had the same policy for liability reasons. But since it's become clear that Musk acquired Twitter in order to lay hands on the data, I'm sure the first thing he did was institute the never-delete policy if it wasn't already in place.
So you can delete whatever you wish, but it means nothing. I simply locked my account and left. No point in deleting anything. What's done is done. Just don't do any more on that platform.
@mastodonmigration @davidaugust Yes, that's an assumption I've made since the early 1980s. I never post anything that I wouldn't be comfortable defending decades in the future.
@shuttersparks @mastodonmigration @davidaugust
Much the same here, though what I THOUGHT wouldn't ever be embarrassing that far back would probably mortify me now. Both I, and the world, have evolved in all that time.
@jstevenyork @mastodonmigration @davidaugust I wouldn't be mortified but I would be willing to explain the context and mindset I was in when I wrote it, right or wrong by today's standards and in light of education I've picked up since then.
I mean, back in the 70s I was a libertarian, oblivious to all the factors that make libertarianism a useful academic concept but disastrously unworkable when applied to real human beings. I'm not embarrassed about that. I was young, ignorant, full of hubris, with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. Haha. We're not born with experience and deep knowledge of sociology.
@shuttersparks @mastodonmigration @davidaugust
For me, I was just so ignorant about a lot of things in my early 20s when I got on line (not the internet yet, but dial- up BBSs and later the GEnie mainframe service) I almost politically ignorant. I knew who the president and governor were, I missed worrying about being drafted by a few months, and voting, or anything about politics just didn't seem important.
@shuttersparks @mastodonmigration @davidaugust
And I didn't understand the struggles women and people of color went through every day. LGBTQ+ people barely existed outside the sphere of jokes. I didn't MEAN anyone harm, but I had grown up in a southern, white, male bubble, and I was profoundly ignorant and naive. It took a lot of life experience and encounters with good people to temper my saying stupid things, or accidently treating people poorly.
@shuttersparks @davidaugust Probably right. No matter what the platform, things that you post on the internet are forever.