Re:Ask HN: Do you regret deleting your social accounts?
by bediger4000 on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:07AM
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I quit using facebook about 4 or 5 years ago, but I haven't deleted my account, just let it rot.
In the last 2 years, I've deleted Quora (it was pushing right-wing agendas pretty hard), Unix and Linux Stackexchange (old answers need to go away, editing made my answers into someone else's), Nextdoor (racism and stray cats), and Twitter (don't want to enrich Dorsey or Musk). If I could delete my HN account, I think I would.
I have vaguely missed the pointers to palaeontology papers I got off of twitter, but other than that, no, deleting all of them was a positive experience, probably for different reasons for each of them.
In the last 2 years, I've deleted Quora (it was pushing right-wing agendas pretty hard), Unix and Linux Stackexchange (old answers need to go away, editing made my answers into someone else's), Nextdoor (racism and stray cats), and Twitter (don't want to enrich Dorsey or Musk). If I could delete my HN account, I think I would.
I have vaguely missed the pointers to palaeontology papers I got off of twitter, but other than that, no, deleting all of them was a positive experience, probably for different reasons for each of them.