If you don't know who Micah Lee is yet, here's why you should: Micah is an information security engineer, a software engineer, a journalist, and an author who has built an impressive career developing software for the public good, and working with some of the most respected digital rights organizations in the United States.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/28/interview-with-micah-lee/

#Interview #Privacy #Security #Article #PrivacyGuides #Cyd #OnionShare #Semiphemeral #LockdownSystems

People who use social media other than Mastodon :twitter: :facebook: :meta: :

If you are still using some [BigCorpSocial™️] social media account(s),
I highly recommend maintaining a good data privacy hygiene on there. Especially because of all the data collected from these platforms, most recently, infamously, for scanning all your posts to feed For-Profit-AI-Machine™️

One important step to improve your data hygiene is to delete the older posts that are no longer useful to you (you can do this automatically on Mastodon by the way) :nes_fire:

Many [BigCorpSocial™️] have rendered this task more difficult recently by removing features previously provided to third-party developers.

BUT there is a fantastic desktop app developed by @micahflee coming up for this with a workaround! :awesome:

Semiphemeral! :birdsite:✨

Semiphemeral will make it possible for you to delete your older posts from your [BigCorpSocial™️] accounts, according to your preferences.

I don't often recommend tools like this,
but this one is a great one:

Privacy by Design ✅
From a trustworthy source ✅
Top practices for data minimization ✅
Runs locally ✅

I highly recommend it to anyone with social media accounts outside of the Fediverse.

Read on the latest developments here: https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/

Subscribe to get updates: https://semiphemeral.com/x-steaming-toxic-trashpit-semiphemeral-cant-come-soon-enough/#/portal/signup

Donate so it gets ready faster! :rainbowdance: https://semiphemeral.com/donate/

Follow Semiphemeral on Mastodon: @semiphemeral

#Privacy #DataMinimization #DataDeletion #Semiphemeral #Twitter #X

"I'm excited to announce that I'm bringing #Semiphemeral back in a clever way that #BigTech can't stop, even when they enshittify! And it will allow you to automatically #archive and #delete your data from more than just #Twitter, too."

https://semiphemeral.com/like-a-phoenix-semiphemeral-will-rise-from-the-ashes/

Awesome! @semiphemeral now has an account on Mastodon! :ablobcatnod:

This is an official account!
Give this amazing tool a follow fellow privacy friends! :mastodon: :birdsite:

#Semiphemeral #Birdsite #Privacy

Exciting Privacy News! 🔒:birdsite:

If you, like me, are a
big fan of deleting you own data online when you do not need it anymore to reduce your digital prints,

I highly recommend following this amazing project: https://semiphemeral.com/like-a-phoenix-semiphemeral-will-rise-from-the-ashes/

Semiphemeral once helped me immensely while deleting my 24,000 tweets to prepare my Twitter-Exit :nes_fire:

I am extremely pleased to read this tool will not only be brought back by its creator @micahflee but will also have incredible new features!

All built with a privacy-first mindset ✨

Thank you Micah! I can't wait to see Semiphemeral fly again.

Subscribe here to get news of its development and release: https://semiphemeral.com/#/portal/signup 👀

#PrivacyNews #Privacy #PrivacyByDesign #DataMinimization #Semiphemeral

@achimkla There is a tool by @micahflee called #Semiphemeral that can undo likes etc.: https://micahflee.com/2020/09/semiphemeral-automate-deleting-your-old-tweets-likes-and-direct-messages/

Hey #Twitter #birdsite people, can you help me understand this?

I'm manually undoing retweets (because I waited until the API access was denied, rendering #Semiphemeral, etc useless), and am running into an issue when trying to undo some retweets, and wondering if I am stuck with them forever.

What I am seeing per image below is "You Retweeted...", but when looking at the RT button, there isn't an option to "Undo Retweet" instead, options are to "Retweet" or "QT.

Is this an anomaly of how Twitter databases are falling apart?

Hi @micahflee

Is #Semiphemeral still working?
If not, are there alternate tools you suggest?

Asking because I "unpaused" the service and it appears to be running.

Are there any other utilities in the absence of #Semiphemeral that work to delete bulk tweets, retweets, etc on #Birdchan #Twitchan #Twitter ?

#BirdChan evac plan (do it before you regret it):

1) Archive tweets, then bulk delete. Highly recommend #Semiphemeral for this. Can delete DMs as well (also highly recommended)

2) Export your follows/lists (use #Debirdify)

3) Lock account - DO NOT delete

4) Update password if possible for max security. (Don’t set up 2FA if that’s an option - not reliably supported)

5) Delete iOS and/or Android apps - security no longer guaranteed

Just checked in with https://semiphemeral.com to make sure my tweets were being deleted as I had set up. They were/are! Gave @micahflee—the #antifascist human behind the #bot—a tip for performing such a valuable service. #Semiphemeral

@campuscodi @micahflee's #Semiphemeral can also be used locally.

CAn anyone tell me why #semiphemeral isn't deleting my tweets that are from 2013 and older? It has run successfully before, but has seemed to stall at this point. I still have about 3k tweets I'd like to nuke.

Twitter seems to have restored all my tweets from before 2016, after I used #semiphemeral to delete them. I wonder if they had to restore from a backup from before?

@micahflee love #semiphemeral! Question for you: are there features in it to completely delete everything about your account other than the account itself? Rather than fully deactivating my Twitter account and having it run the risk of coming back as a spam bot, I’m trying to empty it out to be nothing but a locked shell with zero followers and zero follows. Does your app support that somehow? Or is there another open source tool you would recommend that could accomplish this?

So here are my settings in #semiphemeral - I *think* this should mean delete everything, yet I still have a lot of 2013 and older tweets. Where am I confused?

If you’re looking for a way to mass delete your old tweets and likes whilst retaining your Twitter account to safeguard the username, I can recommend https://semiphemeral.com/

Yes you have to grant access but it has a good reputation and actively blocks accounts with know / findable connections to fascists from using their service 😊

#semiphemeral #deletetwitter #tweets

At this pace, my ~45k tweets might get deleted before we land on Mars. What gives, #Semiphemeral

zu guter letzt : cleanup ... Schlussendlich nutzen wir
Semiphemeral
#Semiphemeral is an antifascist service
https://semiphemeral.com