[allthecybers]

I just don't understand the need to announce your decision to stop using a particular social media platform. It's a free web service. You can use it or not. I guess I should have made an announcement when I switched away from Gmail.

"Hello everyone, I have decided to leave Gmail. I'll keep my account active, and still receive email there but I'm definitely leaving. I can't support Google which is a poster child of surveillance capitalism. I’m going to stop emailing pictures and observations and forwarding worthy voices and all that stuff. Remember: using my data without paying me."

[throw0101c]

> I just don't understand the need to announce […]

It's a statement of principles. To bring attention to, and shine light on, what (he thinks) is a problem.

Just like he did went he quit a lucrative job as VP of AWS when Amazon mistreated employees:

* https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-A...

[allthecybers]

Point taken. I agree Tim has history of doing the principled thing.

I’ve just seen so many of these “leaving Twitter” posts lately and it’s interesting that Twitter seems to be a really sticky product for people.

[UncleOxidant]

> I guess I should have made an announcement when I switched away from Gmail.

Didn't you tell people who had your old gmail address that you'd be moving to another email provider and give them the new email address? This is kind of like that. He's got a lot of followers so explaining the why and where he's going seems like it makes sense.

[camdenlock]

In this case, it’s a way to signal one’s fealty to a very specific ideology.