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Leaving Twitter

Today ConFuzzled have some important news to share.

We’re done with Twitter

(TL:DR – we’re focusing on BlueSky for now. Find us here: https://bsky.app/profile/confuzzled.org.uk)

It’s been building with us for a while. We’ve been squirming in our seats as various changes in both the values and technical changes in the platform have mounted. We’ve decided to walk away.

The reasons for this in detail are as follows,

• Values: Twitter over the last year has rapidly devolved in a manner that is incompatible with ConFuzzled’s values. We feel that continuing to operate on the platform is no longer compatible with how we wish to act as an organisation.
• Technical Changes: The changing of how tools such as blocking works has made the way we use Twitter increasingly at odds with what we are trying to achieve.
• Changes in ToS: The recent changes to ToS with regards to the automatic acceptance that all content can be scraped in order to train Twitter AI is untenable for us. We sometimes post content that includes art or media produced and owned by the convention and community artists. This ToS change would mean that we could no longer do so without giving away control of this media in a manner that may result in future misuse/abuse.

So where can you find us now?

CONFUZZLED IS ON BLUESKY! You can find us here: https://bsky.app/profile/confuzzled.org.uk

(We’ll continue to use our Telegram announcement channel too, which you can find here: https://t.me/ConFuzzled )

To start off, we’re gonna focus on BlueSky as our primary place to post out social media news, alerts and announcements.

We’re also reviewing other platforms, to see what else we can do to make sure everyone is kept up to date with ConFuzzled news.

So what will happen to our twitter accounts? Well, we don’t want to delete them. It’s always possible things might change for the better. So, we’ll keep the accounts but they will be dormant.

This includes the main @cfconvention account, as well as all mascot accounts, and any accounts for departments within the convention.  They will go silent.

In addition, please note that the primary way you can contact us is usually not through social media platforms, but instead by email. For contact information of various departments, please see: https://confuzzled.org.uk/contact-us/

If you have any questions or feedback about this decision, please contact info@confuzzled.org.uk