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It's a great day to delete your X account(s) (thelemmy.club)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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Also, donโ€™t leave your account unused, delete it. User and follower numbers count.

And least as important, reply (if necessary to another corporate mail address) every email with Twitter/X in the footer, with a kind request to stop promoting and facilitating X.

https://bio.link/everyonehateselon

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[โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If your user name is closely tied to your online identity, I am hesitant to delete if they recycle the usernames and some total nut job takes your old handle and people think you've gone off the deep end - just a thought.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 9 months ago

    Understandable, especially when there might be a lot of links to the profile around the internet. However, in that particular case itโ€™s still possible to delete all content, contacts / follows, followers, and profile images and descriptions etcetera, make the profile private, and give it some semi-permanent dead existence, or delete if a year later or so.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 9 months ago

    This is definitely an aspect of social media in general. An argument can be made to register your profile and let it lie dormant just to avoid it being hijacked. Hijacking has been an issue in BlueSky during the Twitter migration bursts. Sure - the companies can use the registration for statistics, and the decision to register is somewhere between performance and personal integrity.

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