Like many Michael is doing a media cleanse and at the same time proves my oft-made point that you should own your content. Speaking of his not yet delete Twitter account:

I’ve downloaded the complete archive, and I’m sad to say I’m about to create a bunch of 404 errors when my corpus of tweets vanishes from Twitter. Why? This is my content, and I don’t want whatever Twitter has become to benefit from its existence. I’ll share the archive here at some point, but for now, I’m cleansing.

I point back to my point on my current 2 rules for online engagement.

1. Don’t argue online
2. If it’s not worth a blog post, it’s probably not worth saying

Remember, you bring value to Social Media companies with your content and they will exploit it if they can. While Mastodon is the current fair-haired child of decentralized social media, WordPress was the blessed open source blogging platform until The Dictator decided he wanted to squeeze a company.

So, put your content where you can own it and then sure cross-post it to other spots, but don’t expect any service you don’t control to stay as it was when you fell in love with it.