When programmer Micah Lee was kicked off X for a post that offended Elon Musk, he didn't look back. His new tool for saving and deleting your X posts can give you that same sweet release.
At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, that he had just been banned from Twitter . His crime: posting a link to @Elonjets, an account on the competing social media service Mastodon that tracked the location of the private jet of Twitter ’s new billionaire owner, Elon Musk —a link that Musk would later claim amounted to “doxing” despite the jet’s location info being publicly available.
The social media Bluesky, in particular, appears to have gained most of those X refugees, adding at least 8 million users in the weeks after the election. “I think it's incredibly timely for people to delete as much as they can, as much as they want to, off of X, and just stop using the platform,” Lee says, “and try to take some of its influence away and move it to better platforms like Bluesky or Mastodon.” Cyd is only one of several apps like TweetDeleter and Redact.
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