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@cyd.social
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Hi, my name is Cyd! I can help you claw back your data from Big Tech, starting with deleting all your tweets for free. https://cyd.social
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fontsinuse.com
In 1941, Linotype updated this booklet as “The Readability of Type” and added 1937–1941 to the table.

(This is a reply to an archived post from 2016. We just migrated everything from X using the wonderful @cyd.social and will finally archive our account there.)
A table titled “Linotype Faces—“Fifty Books” Selections”. On the left is a list of typefaces with columns for years 1924–1941 and a Total column. The typefaces are listed in order of appearances Caslon Old Face is at the top with a count of 71. Next are Baskerville, Granjon, Janson, and Scotch.
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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quillmatiq.com
Love @cyd.social! The work migration tools like Cyd have done is what inspired Bounce. Graph-matching is such a great way to work around closed networks and solve the cold start problem.
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Time for my annual Get Out tweet. Feels like a lost cause at this point but anyway …
I left Twitter two years ago and haven’t regretted it once. Popping back in to say you can do it too. Staying here means choosing to let your mind marinate in a right-wing cesspool. I don’t care how savvy you imagine yourself to be, you’re not immune to its distortions. Get out.
October 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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stewf.com
@cyd.social is such a nifty tool. It’s rad to watch its creators dig into the details. Even radder to witness a team of hackers get together and build something so antithetical to corporate tech.
cyd.social Cyd @cyd.social · Aug 16
Interested in what Cyd is, how it works, and other Lockdown Systems projects? We gave a talk at HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH! Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnbw... @micahflee.com @redshiftzero.bsky.social @yaelwrites.com
Claw Back Your Data With Cyd (HOPE 2025)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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manonanai5.bsky.social
If you haven’t heard of @cyd.social and discovered how to claw back your data this is an excellent intro.
redshiftzero.bsky.social redshiftzero @redshiftzero.bsky.social · Aug 17
Gave a talk with @yaelwrites.com and @micahflee.com at HOPE about breaking free from Big Tech
cyd.social Cyd @cyd.social · Aug 16
Interested in what Cyd is, how it works, and other Lockdown Systems projects? We gave a talk at HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH! Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnbw... @micahflee.com @redshiftzero.bsky.social @yaelwrites.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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csharp7.bsky.social
Another pitch for using @cyd.social to download a full archive of your content, delete it all, and then delete your account.
srirachachau.bsky.social Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · Oct 15
Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now
knightscrest.bsky.social chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · Oct 15
what even happened on the other site this time
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
cyd.social
Cyd 1.1.21 is out. This is a bug fix release resolving issues importing from X export files and in migrating media to Bluesky:
docs.cyd.social/blog/cyd-1.1...

Thank you to the bug reporters!
Cyd 1.1.21 released | Cyd Docs
We're pleased to announce Cyd 1.1.21 is released. Here's what's new:
docs.cyd.social
August 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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redshiftzero.bsky.social
Gave a talk with @yaelwrites.com and @micahflee.com at HOPE about breaking free from Big Tech
cyd.social Cyd @cyd.social · Aug 16
Interested in what Cyd is, how it works, and other Lockdown Systems projects? We gave a talk at HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH! Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnbw... @micahflee.com @redshiftzero.bsky.social @yaelwrites.com
Claw Back Your Data With Cyd (HOPE 2025)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
www.youtube.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
cyd.social
Interested in what Cyd is, how it works, and other Lockdown Systems projects? We gave a talk at HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH! Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnbw... @micahflee.com @redshiftzero.bsky.social @yaelwrites.com
Claw Back Your Data With Cyd (HOPE 2025)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
www.youtube.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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micahflee.com
Lockdown Systems spoke at HOPE (me, @redshiftzero.bsky.social and @yaelwrites.com)! Watch it here: Claw Back Your Data With Cyd www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnbw...
Claw Back Your Data With Cyd (HOPE 2025)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
www.youtube.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
cyd.social
The collective that writes my code will be speaking at Hackers on Planet Earth this weekend in NYC! And check out their new project, the ICE Detention Map lockdown.systems/cyd-at-hacke...
Cyd at Hackers on Planet Earth, the ICE Detention Map, and the Lockdown Systems Collective
This weekend, most of the Lockdown Systems collective will be at Hackers on Planet Earth, a hacker conference in New York City. We'll be giving a talk and a workshop called Claw Back Your Data From Bi...
lockdown.systems
August 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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hippievan.bsky.social
Good morning,

Day 1.

I deleted Twitter last night. But before doing that I used Cyd @cyd.social to delete all my posts. Cyd works great, highly recommend it.
Hooray for Cyd, that they built their app.

#FuckElon #Twitter #socialmediaisasocialdisease
#orwellian
August 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
cyd.social
Cyd 1.1.18 is released. This one is a small bug fix docs.cyd.social/blog/cyd-1.1...
Cyd 1.1.18 released | Cyd Docs
We're pleased to announce Cyd 1.1.18 is released. Here's what's new:
docs.cyd.social
August 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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micahflee.com
Lockdown Systems and @cyd.social representing at DEFCON
Photo of sticker wall with stickers for Cyd and Lockdown Systems, and “we are clean on OPSEC”
August 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
cyd.social
A small but important bugfix update: Cyd 1.1.17 is now released! docs.cyd.social/blog/cyd-1.1...
Cyd 1.1.17 released | Cyd Docs
We're pleased to announce Cyd 1.1.17 is released. Here's what's new:
docs.cyd.social
August 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
cyd.social
Cyd 1.1.16 is out. If you've already deleted your X account, you can still migrate your tweets to Bluesky now! docs.cyd.social/blog/cyd-1.1...
Cyd 1.1.16 released | Cyd Docs
We're pleased to announce Cyd 1.1.16 is released. Here's what's new:
docs.cyd.social
August 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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milesklee.bsky.social
I reviewed the Tesla Diner, congrats to me on my new career as a food critic
Elon Musk's Tesla Diner Is the Cybertruck of Restaurants
Elon Musk's new Tesla Diner in Hollywood: long lines, chaotic service, disappointing food and a puzzling design with drive-in movie screens.
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July 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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adrierising.bsky.social
i found a free way to delete all of your tweets in one go. 10/10 would recommend @cyd.social. there's a paid version to migrate all of your tweets to bluesky, remove all of your likes, and unfollow everyone but the free version works very well. takes about a day to get your data archive.

cyd.social
Cyd - Claw back your data from Big Tech
Automatically delete your data from tech platforms, except for what you want to keep
cyd.social
July 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
cyd.social
Wirecutter's @maxeddy.bsky.social tries to disappear from the internet.

www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
Tackling X, formerly known as Twitter, proved to be another taxing task. I’d made my first tweets by text message, patiently pushing the keys of a flip phone to find the right letters. I had 103,000 tweets, 40,000 retweets, and 130,000 likes that I needed to remove. Deleting the account would have taken mere seconds, but I wanted to keep the account alive but inactive to ensure that no one would try to impersonate me in the future. Preparing to delete my data from X, I was reminded of my friend who had vanished from the web. Even in the early 2000s, they were careful about their online presence. They used Twitter, but they deleted their tweets and changed accounts regularly. If I posted something about them, a picture or even just a passing reference, they called — on the telephone — and politely asked me to take it down. I thought it was odd at the time, and I sometimes resented it a little. Now, facing down the task of deleting over 100,000 tweets, I think they were on to something. There was no way that I could possibly remove that many posts on my own. So I enlisted the help of Cyd. An open-source tool, Cyd (which stands for “claw back your data”) automatically deletes X posts, interactions, bookmarks, and direct messages. Based on my experience, Cyd can clear out 70,000 tweets in about three and a half hours. You can find other tools for deleting old tweets, such as TweetDelete, but I opted for Cyd because I’d had a good experience using it to clean up a personal Twitter account. I also liked that Cyd didn’t need to store any of my personal information; the entire process is managed in an application on my computer, not a service on the cloud. MORE IN THIS SERIES  Smart TVs, Cameras, Speakers and More Are Fishing Nets for Your Data. What Are They Catching? Watching Cyd work was mesmerizing. My posts flashed by almost too fast to read; it was like watching my life pass before my eyes. It was fun to revisit my posts at warp speed, but painful, too, because ea…
July 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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aoffitzer.bsky.social
FYI, I am using @cyd.social to archive all my tweets + RTs and then subsequently delete them all, if anyone is looking for a similar tool
July 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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bmann.ca
I've paid for @cyd.social to help delete my tweets and transfer my archive to my @bmannconsulting.com account.

They're looking at Facebook, Instagram, and other migration and data deleting features. Fill out the survey with your thoughts.
July 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
cyd.social
Cyd 1.1.15 released! My app looks way prettier now docs.cyd.social/blog/cyd-1.1...
Screenshot of the new Cyd dashboard
July 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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micahflee.com
There's one more day to fill our @cyd.social survey and help shape the future direction of the project! cyd.social/help-shape-t...
Help shape the future of Cyd
Fill out our user survey to help us decide what features to build next.
cyd.social
July 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
cyd.social
Tuesday, July 8th is the last day to fill out our user survey! Help us decide what to build next here: cyd.social/help-shape-t...
Help shape the future of Cyd
Fill out our user survey to help us decide what features to build next.
cyd.social
July 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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rialtus.com
Found the time to actually delete all of my Twitter data, leaving behind a shell of an account with no content. Thank you @cyd.social for a simple way to leave behind a shell of an account on Twitter!
July 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM