---
title: "Purging Twitter"
date: 2022-06-28
draft: false
aliases:
- /notes/purging-twitter/
tags:
- Mastodon
- Twitter
---

In my series of purging my content on proprietary platforms I don't align with anymore, the next on the chopping block is Twitter. Just like GitHub, I have several personal reasons why I'm not supporting Twitter any longer. <!--more-->

* Focus on algorithmic discovery as opposed to a simple, linear timeline.
* Supporting NFTs which I don't personally agree with.
* There's advertisements **everywhere**! So many ads!
    * What's hilarious is that Twitter Blue (their premium subscription service.... to a multi-billion dollar company that doesn't need more money) doesn't seem to even remove these ads. What?? It only seems to remove ads on other websites.
* There is so much notification spam - which is related to their insistence that they know what you like better than you do - and it's purely just for the usual addiction factor.

I don't even receive much traffic on the site and I managed to completely cut off my Twitter addiction over the past couple of years, so I think this is the best time to do this. Right now my Twitter profile is set to private, as I still need it for DMs and my Knockout login, but I plan to completely sunset it sometime next year. If you still wish to read my microblogs, you can follow me from any ActivityPub-compliant service such as Mastodon/Pleroma/Pixelfed, etc at [@redstrate@mastodon.art](https://mastodon.art/@redstrate).

![Mastodon account](masto-screen.webp)

All of my previous tweets are now deleted however there was some Twitter-exclusive artwork that I didn't realize wasn't posted anywhere else, so I did some reorganizing of my [gallery](/gallery)!

**Edit:** I updated my links to their new home at mastodon.art.
