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2022-03-20

Digital Detox of sorts

tags: life

One of the things I'm painfully aware, is the sheer amount of online identities that I have collected over the years. There number surpassed the 100 mark recently. When I teach classes, I ask the attendees to create a list of all their important, un-important, funny, forgotten IDs for themselves. They are always surprised, how many they have.

ploum has written that he is quite rigorous when it comes to unwanted email:

I’m an inbox 0 extremist. I unsubscribe from everything that contains an unsubscribe link. I spent the last two years sending GDPR removing requests to every company sending me an unwanted email. The first three months were completely exhausting but once I did the first bulk, it became more rigorous hygiene.

gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2021-10-20.gmi

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After reading that, I took action on a number of unwanted newsletters. And these days I continued to clean up old and not any more needed accounts. Many did not work any more, which is ok with me. Several I could delete through web access, and others I had to go through some hoops to request the deletion via some support mechanism. Some have already responded, which is nice.

The "not-working/deleted" list currently has 38 items. More noteable entries are:

/en/2021/20210612-i-hate-fora.gmi

/en/2022/20220208-bye-bye-packstation.gmi

Should the need actually arise, I can definitely recreate any of these accounts, right? And until then I rest assured, that I do not have to keep track of them any more. Whether or not they are really really deleted, I cannot say, of course. And some of them will continue to exist in data backup locations and technology.

Thanks to all the kind souls helping out at various support places, actually marking my accounts for deletion!

Bye bye accounts, may the goddesses of bit-ly nirvana be merciful.

Cheers,

~ew

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