TiddlyWiki on Social Media

#1

I have recently deleted the TiddlyWiki account on X (and also my personal accounts there). It has become an unpleasant place to be, and there are fewer and fewer people there. Others are free to disagree with my stance, and I will listen to feedback, but this is a personal decision, and I am no longer comfortable for TiddlyWiki to be implicitly supporting the platform.

I intend to switch my attention to the TiddlyWiki Fediverse account at TiddlyWiki (@TiddlyWiki@fosstodon.org) - Fosstodon and welcome interactions there.

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#2

Just to add that I loved Twitter for many years, and it’s a great shame to see its decline.

Some personal history is that in November 2006 I was invited by Ev Williams (one of the founders of Twitter) to their offices in San Francisco. I met Ev and the then CTO Blaine Cook, and had a fun discussion about TiddlyWiki and Twitter. Ev actually asked me if I was interested in working at Twitter. I immediately declined because by that time I felt committed to TiddlyWiki, and wanted to keep working on it. I do sometimes think about what would have happened if I had pursued the offer, but of course I don’t regret the time I’ve devoted to TiddlyWiki.

A postscript, Blaine ended up joining Osmosoft, my team at BT, in 2008 and I enjoyed several years of working with him there.

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#3

I suppose that if I’m following this forum, I won’t be missing anything TiddlyWiki related if I don’t go to Mastodon?

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#4

A very respectable decision. I for one am inclined to agree. Well done Jeremy.

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#5

That is a very wise decision, I think that’s a good idea. I left X months ago for Bluesky due to the functionality changes and increasingly hostile environment, and it seems to have only gotten worse since then. While Bluesky is a much smaller community, I’d love to see more fellow TiddlyWikians there.

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#6

At TiddlyWiki (@TiddlyWiki@fosstodon.org) - Fosstodon, there is still a link to Twitter, which returns a “does not exits” message. IMO the link can be removed.

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Is the Twitter history gone?

#7

Thanks @pmario, that should be fixed now

I downloaded an archive for the account, but it’s not great. On the plus side, it has all of the account tweets (with attachments) and likes. Sadly, the tweets don’t include replies, and the likes don’t even include the username of the tweet, just the full text. Better than nothing. I will endeavour to use the TiddlyWiki Archivist plugin to make it into a presentable form, and ultimately post it on tiddlywiki.com.

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#8

I agree whole-heartedly. I quit Twitter when Elon Musk took over and have not regretted it one bit.

I’m on Mastodon now too, and it seems to feel similar to how Twitter was 8-10 years ago: a very good place to discuss technology and/or politics.

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#9

I just today stumbled onto a Canadian social networking site that I’m now exploring: https://hey.cafe/