A realignment of things

So I've done some things. Deleting My Fediverse Account Last night, I deleted my Mastodon account of at least ~5 years from https://todon.eu. It was where I went after PlayVicious, run by https://roiskinda.cool shut down. Normally, I feel things - a decoupling, a sense of loss - when deleting accounts like this. But I felt more deleting my Microsoft account than deleting this one. I have a backup and plan on selectively adding folks into https://fed.brid.gy/ so I can still see posts from my account with https://blackskyweb.xyz/ but it's going to be a small number. There's a bunch of reasons why I pulled the plug: I don't use it often: I keep track of what sites I visit on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. This was one of the ones I didn't really care for, I noticed. It's discouraging my rewrite: In order to lean into the idea of the ActivityPub API, I couldn't keep using or running an account held on software stuck in the past of ActivityPub — and in what helped calcify the…