Today's additions to the eXit spreadsheet (https://bit.ly/eXit) -- notable accounts that appear to have left X for good:
- @davidrevoy: artist, known for "Pepper & Carrot" comic and for his amazing learning resources; deleted his X account earlier this year 😻
- @colossal: art and visual culture blog; had 144K followers on X; left October 5 🎨
- @Popehat: law blogger; left Twitter last year (more active on BlueSky now) ⚖️
- @coffeegeek: has been blogging about coffee since the 1990s! ☕
@eloquence wait, why am I not there? I feel myself extremely notable!
@data_diving @eloquence to me it appears that for whatever reason Erik did not find you at least as notable as Kottke, to pick a random name from the list. Maybe he's German, you're not. Could this be the reason?
That's definitely not why 😅 . Just trying to keep the spreadsheet manageable, so I've been focusing on folks who've had a large presence, or institutions regardless of social media presence. But it might be nice to add a free-for-all section where anyone can opt in! What do you think?
@eloquence @data_diving first, I apologise for the previous comment of mine, which is way too rude.
I personally do consider your effort way too quixotic. Still, trying to be constructive, here's two pieces of feedback that come to my mind:
1. The one I find really difficult: Try to find ways to improve the validity of your dataset by reducing your personal bias, e.g. find objective criteria for who to include (think of your response to @coffeegeek ), and (what you seem to be doing already) try to source accounts that are not filtered by your personal social bubble.
2. I personally would love to be able to query your data, e.g. by "who's on the fediverse. This is currently doable, but not obvious on a phone (as I tried it). Experience from the lists of the Twitter Migration wave when Musk both that platform, shows that once the spreadsheet arrives at 100 rows, this becomes very laborious.
As far as querying is concerned, sure, suggestions welcome, but it may just end up not being very mobile-friendly - there's always tradeoffs to consider when building lists like this.
I just added filter views for Mastodon, BlueSky and Threads. Unfortunately it looks like the default mobile view does not support this -- but if you're in the desktop view, you should now be able to select Data->Filter Views->Mastodon to see only Mastodon accounts.
There might be a clever way to do this as a sub-sheet 🤔
@mapto First of all: wow! No offence guys. I was just trying to be funny (I might be not good at it, people told me already). It was an innocent joke😉
Secondly, if anyone is interested in sharing data experience, asking questions about data — free to reach out to me, I always try to help💙
@mapto @data_diving
My response to CoffeeGeek was a joke. I included them because they have a track record of publishing that goes back to 1997 and had >27K followers on X. I source from many, many different places.