Oh dear.

[cimorene]

Earlier this week I was still thinking there was no point in backing up my Twitter yet since they were probably overrun in server requests for these backups and it's not like it was going to disappear overnight; the kind of failures people are predicting here take time to happen.

But I decided to go ahead and request an archive of my tweets anyway. I guess I might as well get in the queue in case employees have to handle them directly. I don't want them all to leave before somebody sends me my tweets.

I've been meaning to get around to checking out mastodon and those fannish attempts at user-hosted social media for... years... I'm not great at getting around to stuff.

Comments

[harpers_child]

When you do get your archive, double check everything is there. Several people on tumblr have reported receiving incomplete backups and needed to try several times to get everything. VAspider of nerdykeppie fame comes to mind first, but I've seen others reporting the same issues.

[phosfate]

I've tried backing mine up twice and it's never worked. LMK how it goes.

[mrkinch]

https://www.twitter.com/rahaeli (denise) has ranted about mastodon on twitter, if you want her opinion; I don't recall the technicalities, but she is not impressed. I don't recall that she recommended anything else, though.:)