…I'm currently trying out an account on a different instance, and will likely redirect this one soon. You shouldn't have to do anything.

I thought about setting up my own instance, but I'm not quite ready to do that just now. Maybe when GoToSocial is more mature.

Defederation is a feature, not a bug. Yes, it makes the network messy, but human social interaction is messy. Freedom of association means freedom of dis-association.

When I joined Mastodon in 2017, I picked mastodon.social because it was one of the larger instances, with good uptime, and I wanted one that would be likely to stick around.

Fast forward 5 years, and the sudden growth in user numbers this year (thanks Elon!) has resulted in it becoming problematically large. There have been issues with moderation, leading to some other instances defederating from it.

It's also not good for the Fediverse to have a few huge servers. So…

I took a look at using my developer account to generate a suitable API key and script, but apparently they shut off all the developer accounts recently and want everyone to re-apply through a new system that requires that you describe what you're planning to do and get manual approval.

Update: It seems it doesn't delete *all* tweets. If you know the URL of an ancient tweet, or can find it using search, you can still go to that URL and see the tweet.

However, it does make your profile page show up with no tweets and no way to page back further.

To truly delete everything, there's a commercial service https://tweetdelete.net/

For those looking to delete their Twitter history, I found this tool to work:

https://redact.dev

Unlike most solutions it's free and doesn't require a developer API token.

@Bogusmeatfactory My all-time favorite is "A Mind Forever Voyaging". I've replayed that through several times — and also read through the source code to see what I might have missed.

I also really liked "Plundered Hearts", which I think suffered commercially from insecure men not wanting to play it.

Least favorite adventure game: Probably "The Pawn". Wandering characters didn't work well with 1980s tech, and the fancy parser got in the way more than it helped.

@jalefkowit@octodon.social @timbray My suspicion is that Twitter's design optimizes average engagement, but that people like those in this thread are decidedly not average.

Kinda like how radio stations play pop music chosen to optimize popularity with the average person, so I stopped listening to the radio.

Or how movie studios started churning out superhero movies and other effects reels optimized for commercial success, and I stopped going to the movies. (Even before COVID-19.)

@Bogusmeatfactory Potentially interested. I've played most of Infocom's games, a lot of Level 9's, and a few of Magnetic Scrolls'.

Supermarket conversation with my wife:

"We've gotta get these."
"Why?"
"Because they're updog."
"I don't get it."
"They're made from updog!"
"What is updog?"

So, $4.78 well spent.

@scanner@mastodonmusic.social On a related note, I still can't work out what Robert Fripp might be like in person. Sometimes he seems stern and perhaps a little pretentious, sometimes very self effacing, and sometimes dressed up in a bee costume dancing around his back garden. It's very confusing.

I did discover I had completely the wrong impression about Don Joyce, but sadly only after I'd missed my chance to chat with him.

@scanner@mastodonmusic.social I listened to a podcast recently that revealed (to me) that Hendrix was actually a really shy and private person. That really surprised me, given the stage presence.

@Concretism @faexoptim@mastodonmusic.social I think you need to allow for historical context.

What I really don’t get is the adulation heaped on YMO. They made two good albums.

@vkc I saw someone post that they were fed up with being on some billionaire’s playground, so they were moving to Instagram.

@scanner@mastodonmusic.social I remember having nightmares about it.

@aral @amelia Yes, it’s odd to coin a new term for digital surveillance capitalism when companies have been carrying out surveillance on customers for decades. The only thing that’s possibly new is the idea of collecting and surveilling consumers as a company’s sole business model. Generally in the past that was an in-house function.

@davidgerard It also makes it impossible to search for Mastodon discussion. (I had been doing that to try to help people who had honest questions.)

Notable that Marc Andreessen backed Elon’s Twitter takeover and is now also backing Post.news, Twitter’s main competitor outside Mastodon. Once again, you think you’re given a choice but the rich get richer either path you take!
#technology #tech #twitter #elon #musk #twittermigration

@taylorlorenz @hankg It’s bizarre seeing people saying “I’m sick of this walled garden owned by an asshole billionaire, I’ll go join this other walled garden started by an asshole billionaire.”

Prepping my tiny open source violin.

@samim There’s a puzzle/platform video game “Four Sided Fantasy” that’s full of this kind of thing. The central mechanic is that you can push a button to temporarily freeze the screen from scrolling and make the geometry toroidal (so you can exit one direction and come back in from the opposite side). Highly recommended. #VideoGames

@jimbo Yeah, it’s a mess. For a while I had a custom locale on Linux, but it turns out a lot of software doesn’t use the locale system properly, it just looks at the environment variables and then uses its own locale tables. So anything written in Java would fail, anything in Python would fail, and so on. Maybe I should try again and report the bugs rather than just giving up.