Yeah, yeah, I know — please keep reading. It’s deeper than all that. This is something I’ve been thinking about long before the recent swirl and chaos…
My use of Twitter for the past several years has been a cautious and guarded one. Various events seeded some scary thoughts in my mind: What if Twitter was gone tomorrow? What if I got locked out of my account? What if all my data was deleted? What if I could no longer reach out to people I’m only connected to there?No longer feeling safe in this home, I began looking around. Recognizing how little control I have over any of these questions led me to think more and more about my independence on the web, what stays with me, who owns my social graph, and so on.Alas, life goes on.I continued tweeting, while these nagging concerns grew in the background. And then… Elon’s takeover. I watched, in horrified fascination for a week or two, but knew then I needed to make the switch. For real, this time.
