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title: Deleting Amazon account
date: 2020-07-26 21:15
tags: 100DaysToOffload
summary: Deleting Amazon account has more steps (friction) than I would like. But not impossible.
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hundreddaystooffload: 9
I call it "deleting account", Amazon calls it "closing account". I used them interchangibly in this post.
If you set your mind to delete (or close) your account, don't let too many steps discourage you. I understand that some people run their businesses on AWS and deleting their Amazon account will also delete AWS servers connected to that account. Amazon has given me 2 warnings about it and accepted to delete my account anyway. I wasn't invested in Amazon ecosystem and never used AWS anyway.
According my experience, here are the steps you may need to go through:
1. Click on [Help](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html "Currently this page") in the page footer and search for "close account".
2. You will be presented with an article that warns you about Amazon services you will lose access to. Read and make sure you stopped using those services already.
3. There is "__Note:__ To close your account, please [Contact Us](https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/request-data) to request that your account be closed." at the very end of the help page. Click on "Contact Us" to continue.
4. If not yet logged in you will be asked to, login. Choose email for communication. There is also an option to call but I don't know how would that go since I don't live in US or Canada.
5. They will send the same help article with a bit more information and links to make sure you stopped using everything such as AWS, Alexa, Kindle Publishing, Prime video, Amazon Music etc. Near the end of email you will see "If you still want to close your Amazon.com account after reviewing the items above, please click this link and state that you want to close your account: *Some Link*", click on the link.
6. It will open a page with a text box. Write why you want to close your account and submit. If you are not sure what to write and also feeling adventurous, you can copy paste this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
7. They will email you within 24 hours either for more instructions or to tell you that your account is closed.
__Note__: Depending on where you live or how many Amazon services you used, you may need to go through more steps.

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<span>Sun 26 July 2020</span>
<span>| in <a href="https://murtezayesil.me/category/notes.html">Notes</a></span>
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</footer><!-- /.post-info --><p>I call it "deleting account", Amazon calls it "closing account". I used them interchangibly in this post.</p>
<p>If you set your mind to delete (or close) your account, don't let too many steps discourage you. I understand that some people run their businesses on AWS and deleting their Amazon account will also delete AWS servers connected to that account. Amazon has given me 2 warnings about it and accepted to delete my account anyway. I wasn't invested in Amazon ecosystem and never used AWS anyway.</p>
<p>According my experience, here are the steps you may need to go through:</p>
<ol>
<li>Click on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html" title="Currently this page">Help</a> in the page footer and search for "close account".</li>
<li>You will be presented with an article that warns you about Amazon services you will lose access to. Read and make sure you stopped using those services already.</li>
<li>There is "<strong>Note:</strong> To close your account, please <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/request-data">Contact Us</a> to request that your account be closed." at the very end of the help page. Click on "Contact Us" to continue.</li>
<li>If not yet logged in you will be asked to, login. Choose email for communication. There is also an option to call but I don't know how would that go since I don't live in US or Canada.</li>
<li>They will send the same help article with a bit more information and links to make sure you stopped using everything such as AWS, Alexa, Kindle Publishing, Prime video, Amazon Music etc. Near the end of email you will see "If you still want to close your Amazon.com account after reviewing the items above, please click this link and state that you want to close your account: <em>Some Link</em>", click on the link.</li>
<li>It will open a page with a text box. Write why you want to close your account and submit. If you are not sure what to write and also feeling adventurous, you can copy paste this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ</li>
<li>They will email you within 24 hours either for more instructions or to tell you that your account is closed.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Depending on where you live or how many Amazon services you used, you may need to go through more steps.</p><!-- Comments -->
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<p>Do you know someone who uses a microblogging platform?<br>
I guess you do. I will go as far as saying that may be you are using a microblogging platform.<br>
Surprised? Don't be.<br>
Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, VK, Fediverse are just a few.</p>
<p>Every microblogging platform implements it differently.<br>
Twitter is a place where everybody can see everybody else's posts.<br>
Facebook is for only reading posts from people you know in real life.<br>
Instagram is for posting photos and short videos.<br>
Tumblr is for normal blogging first and microblogging in form of comments.<br>
Reddit is similar to Tumblr except that it is more categorized and structured imo.</p>
<p>All of the platforms I just mentioned, except Fediverse, has something in common. <strong>They are centralized</strong>. Centralized means aech of these services have their own data centers where they aggregate credentials and data of their users. These data centers are rich in user data and appealing target for cyber criminals. Adding fuel to the fire, some of those companies put weak cyber security systems in place and couldn't very large data breaches.</p>
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<p>Even though I said Fediverse is different from other microblogging platforms, threat of cyber attacks are very possible. Every instance carries user credentials and user data of its own users. If an instance was to be cyber attacked, only the users of that particular instance would be affected while rest of Fediverse function unaffected.</p>
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<p>I deployed a NextCloud server for my family and a Jitsi server too. Why not add Mastodon to do pile as well. I rented a 5$/month server and a 100GB storage for database and user uploaded content for another 5$/month.</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.joinmastodon.org/" title="What is Mastodon?">Mastodon's documentation</a>'s installation guide part expects a SysAdmin to know more than I do. I also got help from <a href="https://computingforgeeks.com/install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-with-letsencrypt-ssl-certificate/" title="Install Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 With Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate">another guide</a>. But after try installing Mastodon twice and rollback once, <a href="https://yesil.club/">I got a working instance</a>. Since it is an instance for my family. I am not allowing account creation from outside, but only via invite.</p>
<p>Next piece of the puzzle will be backuping database and user data. I don't know what is the best way to approach this but we shall see.</p><!-- Comments -->
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<span>Sun 26 July 2020</span>
<span>| in <a href="https://murtezayesil.me/category/notes.html">Notes</a></span>
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</footer><!-- /.post-info --><p>I call it "deleting account", Amazon calls it "closing account". I used them interchangibly in this post.</p>
<p>If you set your mind to delete (or close) your account, don't let too many steps discourage you. I understand that some people run their businesses on AWS and deleting their Amazon account will also delete AWS servers connected to that account. Amazon has given me 2 warnings about it and accepted to delete my account anyway. I wasn't invested in Amazon ecosystem and never used AWS anyway.</p>
<p>According my experience, here are the steps you may need to go through:</p>
<ol>
<li>Click on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html" title="Currently this page">Help</a> in the page footer and search for "close account".</li>
<li>You will be presented with an article that warns you about Amazon services you will lose access to. Read and make sure you stopped using those services already.</li>
<li>There is "<strong>Note:</strong> To close your account, please <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/request-data">Contact Us</a> to request that your account be closed." at the very end of the help page. Click on "Contact Us" to continue.</li>
<li>If not yet logged in you will be asked to, login. Choose email for communication. There is also an option to call but I don't know how would that go since I don't live in US or Canada.</li>
<li>They will send the same help article with a bit more information and links to make sure you stopped using everything such as AWS, Alexa, Kindle Publishing, Prime video, Amazon Music etc. Near the end of email you will see "If you still want to close your Amazon.com account after reviewing the items above, please click this link and state that you want to close your account: <em>Some Link</em>", click on the link.</li>
<li>It will open a page with a text box. Write why you want to close your account and submit. If you are not sure what to write and also feeling adventurous, you can copy paste this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ</li>
<li>They will email you within 24 hours either for more instructions or to tell you that your account is closed.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Depending on where you live or how many Amazon services you used, you may need to go through more steps.</p><!-- Comments -->
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</footer><!-- /.post-info --><p>Semicolon is a bit special in Rust. It only comes after statements, not expressions. that includes codeblock returns. This gave me a silly idea.</p>
<h2>How many semicolons needed to write a FizzBuzz program in Rust?</h2>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="k">fn</span> <span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// for every number from 1 to 100</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">for</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">number</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">in</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">..</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">println</span><span class="o">!</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;{}&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// check if number is</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">number</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">%</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">15</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">==</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// divisible by both 3 &amp; 5</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;fizzbuzz&quot;</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">to_string</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// if so return &quot;fizzbuzz&quot;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">else</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">number</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">%</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">==</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// divisible by 3</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;fizz&quot;</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">to_string</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// if so return &quot;fizz&quot;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">else</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">if</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">number</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">%</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">==</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// divisible by 5</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;buzz&quot;</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">to_string</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// if so return &quot;buzz&quot;</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">else</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// but if not</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="n">number</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">to_string</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// return number as String</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// print returned value</span>
<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">}</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="p">}</span><span class="w"></span>
</code></pre></div>
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<p>There is also <a href="https://github.com/Keith-S-Thompson/fizzbuzz-c/blob/master/fizzbuzz004.c" title="Brute forcing FizzBuzz in C">brute forcing method</a> 🤦‍♂️️</p><!-- Comments -->
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<p>If you set your mind to delete (or close) your account, don't let too many steps discourage you. I understand that some people run their businesses on AWS and deleting their Amazon account will also delete AWS servers connected to that account. Amazon has given me 2 warnings about it and accepted to delete my account anyway. I wasn't invested in Amazon ecosystem and never used AWS anyway.</p>
<p>According my experience, here are the steps you may need to go through:</p>
<ol>
<li>Click on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html" title="Currently this page">Help</a> in the page footer and search for "close account".</li>
<li>You will be presented with an article that warns you about Amazon services you will lose access to. Read and make sure you stopped using those services already.</li>
<li>There is "<strong>Note:</strong> To close your account, please <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/request-data">Contact Us</a> to request that your account be closed." at the very end of the help page. Click on "Contact Us" to continue.</li>
<li>If not yet logged in you will be asked to, login. Choose email for communication. There is also an option to call but I don't know how would that go since I don't live in US or Canada.</li>
<li>They will send the same help article with a bit more information and links to make sure you stopped using everything such as AWS, Alexa, Kindle Publishing, Prime video, Amazon Music etc. Near the end of email you will see "If you still want to close your Amazon.com account after reviewing the items above, please click this link and state that you want to close your account: <em>Some Link</em>", click on the link.</li>
<li>It will open a page with a text box. Write why you want to close your account and submit. If you are not sure what to write and also feeling adventurous, you can copy paste this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ</li>
<li>They will email you within 24 hours either for more instructions or to tell you that your account is closed.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Depending on where you live or how many Amazon services you used, you may need to go through more steps.</p>
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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Ali Murteza Yesil</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/" rel="alternate"></link><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/feeds/atom.xml" rel="self"></link><id>https://murtezayesil.me/</id><updated>2020-07-26T21:15:00+06:00</updated><subtitle>Blog</subtitle><entry><title>Deleting Amazon account</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/deleting-amazon-account.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-07-26T21:15:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-07-26T21:15:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-07-26:/deleting-amazon-account.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Deleting Amazon account has more steps (friction) than I would like. But not impossible.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I call it "deleting account", Amazon calls it "closing account". I used them interchangibly in this post.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you set your mind to delete (or close) your account, don't let too many steps discourage you. I understand that some people run their businesses on AWS and deleting their Amazon account will also delete AWS servers connected to that account. Amazon has given me 2 warnings about it and accepted to delete my account anyway. I wasn't invested in Amazon ecosystem and never used AWS anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According my experience, here are the steps you may need to go through:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Click on &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html" title="Currently this page"&gt;Help&lt;/a&gt; in the page footer and search for "close account".&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You will be presented with an article that warns you about Amazon services you will lose access to. Read and make sure you stopped using those services already.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;There is "&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; To close your account, please &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/request-data"&gt;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt; to request that your account be closed." at the very end of the help page. Click on "Contact Us" to continue.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If not yet logged in you will be asked to, login. Choose email for communication. There is also an option to call but I don't know how would that go since I don't live in US or Canada.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;They will send the same help article with a bit more information and links to make sure you stopped using everything such as AWS, Alexa, Kindle Publishing, Prime video, Amazon Music etc. Near the end of email you will see "If you still want to close your Amazon.com account after reviewing the items above, please click this link and state that you want to close your account: &lt;em&gt;Some Link&lt;/em&gt;", click on the link.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It will open a page with a text box. Write why you want to close your account and submit. If you are not sure what to write and also feeling adventurous, you can copy paste this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;They will email you within 24 hours either for more instructions or to tell you that your account is closed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Depending on where you live or how many Amazon services you used, you may need to go through more steps.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Notes"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>Digital Cleansing - Mastodon</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/digital-cleansing-mastodon.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-07-24T15:23:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-07-24T15:23:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-07-24:/digital-cleansing-mastodon.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Centralized microblogging platforms are rich in user data and attractive to cyber criminals. I recommend decentralized alternatives.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;h2&gt;Microblogging&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging" title="Read in more details on Wikipedia"&gt;Microblogging&lt;/a&gt; is blogging smaller but usually more frequent updates. Microblogging platforms put some limitaions like the number of characters, photo size and video length in their platforms. Constraints make people to get creative to craft short and brief posts.&lt;br&gt;
These platforms take away the hustle of maintaining your blog and reduce the friction to start writing/sharing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Do you know someone who uses a microblogging platform?&lt;br&gt;

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<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Ali Murteza Yesil - Notes</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/" rel="alternate"></link><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/feeds/notes.atom.xml" rel="self"></link><id>https://murtezayesil.me/</id><updated>2020-07-26T21:15:00+06:00</updated><subtitle>Blog</subtitle><entry><title>Deleting Amazon account</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/deleting-amazon-account.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-07-26T21:15:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-07-26T21:15:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-07-26:/deleting-amazon-account.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Deleting Amazon account has more steps (friction) than I would like. But not impossible.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I call it "deleting account", Amazon calls it "closing account". I used them interchangibly in this post.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you set your mind to delete (or close) your account, don't let too many steps discourage you. I understand that some people run their businesses on AWS and deleting their Amazon account will also delete AWS servers connected to that account. Amazon has given me 2 warnings about it and accepted to delete my account anyway. I wasn't invested in Amazon ecosystem and never used AWS anyway.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According my experience, here are the steps you may need to go through:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Click on &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html" title="Currently this page"&gt;Help&lt;/a&gt; in the page footer and search for "close account".&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;You will be presented with an article that warns you about Amazon services you will lose access to. Read and make sure you stopped using those services already.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;There is "&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; To close your account, please &lt;a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/request-data"&gt;Contact Us&lt;/a&gt; to request that your account be closed." at the very end of the help page. Click on "Contact Us" to continue.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If not yet logged in you will be asked to, login. Choose email for communication. There is also an option to call but I don't know how would that go since I don't live in US or Canada.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;They will send the same help article with a bit more information and links to make sure you stopped using everything such as AWS, Alexa, Kindle Publishing, Prime video, Amazon Music etc. Near the end of email you will see "If you still want to close your Amazon.com account after reviewing the items above, please click this link and state that you want to close your account: &lt;em&gt;Some Link&lt;/em&gt;", click on the link.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It will open a page with a text box. Write why you want to close your account and submit. If you are not sure what to write and also feeling adventurous, you can copy paste this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;They will email you within 24 hours either for more instructions or to tell you that your account is closed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note&lt;/strong&gt;: Depending on where you live or how many Amazon services you used, you may need to go through more steps.&lt;/p&gt;</content><category term="Notes"></category><category term="100DaysToOffload"></category></entry><entry><title>FizzBuzz with single semicolon</title><link href="https://murtezayesil.me/fizzbuzz-with-single-semicolon.html" rel="alternate"></link><published>2020-07-20T00:00:00+06:00</published><updated>2020-07-20T00:00:00+06:00</updated><author><name>Ali Murteza Yesil</name></author><id>tag:murtezayesil.me,2020-07-20:/fizzbuzz-with-single-semicolon.html</id><summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Attempt to write an eccentric FizzBuzz program with as few semicolon as possible.&lt;/p&gt;</summary><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Semicolon is a bit special in Rust. It only comes after statements, not expressions. that includes codeblock returns. This gave me a silly idea.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;How many semicolons needed to write a FizzBuzz program in Rust?&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div class="highlight"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="k"&gt;fn&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="nf"&gt;main&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;()&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="w"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="w"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="w"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="c1"&gt;// for every number from 1 to 100&lt;/span&gt;

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</footer><!-- /.post-info --><p>I call it "deleting account", Amazon calls it "closing account". I used them interchangibly in this post.</p>
<p>If you set your mind to delete (or close) your account, don't let too many steps discourage you. I understand that some people run their businesses on AWS and deleting their Amazon account will also delete AWS servers connected to that account. Amazon has given me 2 warnings about it and accepted to delete my account anyway. I wasn't invested in Amazon ecosystem and never used AWS anyway.</p>
<p>According my experience, here are the steps you may need to go through:</p>
<ol>
<li>Click on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html" title="Currently this page">Help</a> in the page footer and search for "close account".</li>
<li>You will be presented with an article that warns you about Amazon services you will lose access to. Read and make sure you stopped using those services already.</li>
<li>There is "<strong>Note:</strong> To close your account, please <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/request-data">Contact Us</a> to request that your account be closed." at the very end of the help page. Click on "Contact Us" to continue.</li>
<li>If not yet logged in you will be asked to, login. Choose email for communication. There is also an option to call but I don't know how would that go since I don't live in US or Canada.</li>
<li>They will send the same help article with a bit more information and links to make sure you stopped using everything such as AWS, Alexa, Kindle Publishing, Prime video, Amazon Music etc. Near the end of email you will see "If you still want to close your Amazon.com account after reviewing the items above, please click this link and state that you want to close your account: <em>Some Link</em>", click on the link.</li>
<li>It will open a page with a text box. Write why you want to close your account and submit. If you are not sure what to write and also feeling adventurous, you can copy paste this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ</li>
<li>They will email you within 24 hours either for more instructions or to tell you that your account is closed.</li>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging" title="Read in more details on Wikipedia">Microblogging</a> is blogging smaller but usually more frequent updates. Microblogging platforms put some limitaions like the number of characters, photo size and video length in their platforms. Constraints make people to get creative to craft short and brief posts.<br>
These platforms take away the hustle of maintaining your blog and reduce the friction to start writing/sharing.</p>
<p>Do you know someone who uses a microblogging platform?<br>
I guess you do. I will go as far as saying that may be you are using a microblogging platform.<br>
Surprised? Don't be.<br>
Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, VK, Fediverse are just a few.</p>
<p>Every microblogging platform implements it differently.<br>
Twitter is a place where everybody can see everybody else's posts.<br>
Facebook is for only reading posts from people you know in real life.<br>
Instagram is for posting photos and short videos.<br>
Tumblr is for normal blogging first and microblogging in form of comments.<br>
Reddit is similar to Tumblr except that it is more categorized and structured imo.</p>
<p>All of the platforms I just mentioned, except Fediverse, has something in common. <strong>They are centralized</strong>. Centralized means aech of these services have their own data centers where they aggregate credentials and data of their users. These data centers are rich in user data and appealing target for cyber criminals. Adding fuel to the fire, some of those companies put weak cyber security systems in place and couldn't very large data breaches.</p>
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<p>Fediverse is decentralized. There are many small servers (aka instances) communicating with each other. They collectively form Fediverse.</p>
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<p>Instances forming the Fediverse can run as different platforms. Therefore Fediverse isn't only about microblogging.</p>
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<p>Even though I said Fediverse is different from other microblogging platforms, threat of cyber attacks are very possible. Every instance carries user credentials and user data of its own users. If an instance was to be cyber attacked, only the users of that particular instance would be affected while rest of Fediverse function unaffected.</p>
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<h2>Mastodon</h2>
<p>I heard about Mastodon in a <a href="https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode6/" title="Decentralize It - S4/E6">IRL Podcast</a>. I just wanted to try that twitter like thing that somehow didn't have a central place to collect all the tweets everybody was posting. I created an account on some instance and tried it for few days.<br>
What I understood at the time was that, there are servers running Mastodon system and Mastodon systems on different servers can communicate with each other to inform about cross platform messages. Fediverse is formed when instances start sommunicating with each other.</p>
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<p>For example: I am @murteza on strawberry.garden instance and I need help to collect strawberries. When I post "We need @batman@gotham.city to help us collect strawberries🍓️", @batman from gotham.city instance will receive a notification from @murteza@strawberry.garden. </p>
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<h1>Deploying a Mastodon instance for my family</h1>
<p>I want to become a SysAdmin and know all about this server stuff. So I decided to deploy servers that I will need to maintain and learn about system administration during the process. I believe this is a good excuse to stay indoors during pandemic 😷️ (Emoji doesn't imply that I am sick, I am not. I also don't want to become one)</p>
<p>I deployed a NextCloud server for my family and a Jitsi server too. Why not add Mastodon to do pile as well. I rented a 5$/month server and a 100GB storage for database and user uploaded content for another 5$/month.</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.joinmastodon.org/" title="What is Mastodon?">Mastodon's documentation</a>'s installation guide part expects a SysAdmin to know more than I do. I also got help from <a href="https://computingforgeeks.com/install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-with-letsencrypt-ssl-certificate/" title="Install Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 With Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate">another guide</a>. But after try installing Mastodon twice and rollback once, <a href="https://yesil.club/">I got a working instance</a>. Since it is an instance for my family. I am not allowing account creation from outside, but only via invite.</p>
<p>Next piece of the puzzle will be backuping database and user data. I don't know what is the best way to approach this but we shall see.</p><!-- Comments -->
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<span>Sun 26 July 2020</span>
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</footer><!-- /.post-info --><p>I call it "deleting account", Amazon calls it "closing account". I used them interchangibly in this post.</p>
<p>If you set your mind to delete (or close) your account, don't let too many steps discourage you. I understand that some people run their businesses on AWS and deleting their Amazon account will also delete AWS servers connected to that account. Amazon has given me 2 warnings about it and accepted to delete my account anyway. I wasn't invested in Amazon ecosystem and never used AWS anyway.</p>
<p>According my experience, here are the steps you may need to go through:</p>
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<li>Click on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html" title="Currently this page">Help</a> in the page footer and search for "close account".</li>
<li>You will be presented with an article that warns you about Amazon services you will lose access to. Read and make sure you stopped using those services already.</li>
<li>There is "<strong>Note:</strong> To close your account, please <a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/contact-us/request-data">Contact Us</a> to request that your account be closed." at the very end of the help page. Click on "Contact Us" to continue.</li>
<li>If not yet logged in you will be asked to, login. Choose email for communication. There is also an option to call but I don't know how would that go since I don't live in US or Canada.</li>
<li>They will send the same help article with a bit more information and links to make sure you stopped using everything such as AWS, Alexa, Kindle Publishing, Prime video, Amazon Music etc. Near the end of email you will see "If you still want to close your Amazon.com account after reviewing the items above, please click this link and state that you want to close your account: <em>Some Link</em>", click on the link.</li>
<li>It will open a page with a text box. Write why you want to close your account and submit. If you are not sure what to write and also feeling adventurous, you can copy paste this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ</li>
<li>They will email you within 24 hours either for more instructions or to tell you that your account is closed.</li>
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<p><strong>Note</strong>: Depending on where you live or how many Amazon services you used, you may need to go through more steps.</p><!-- Comments -->
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</footer><!-- /.post-info --><h2>Microblogging</h2>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging" title="Read in more details on Wikipedia">Microblogging</a> is blogging smaller but usually more frequent updates. Microblogging platforms put some limitaions like the number of characters, photo size and video length in their platforms. Constraints make people to get creative to craft short and brief posts.<br>
These platforms take away the hustle of maintaining your blog and reduce the friction to start writing/sharing.</p>
<p>Do you know someone who uses a microblogging platform?<br>
I guess you do. I will go as far as saying that may be you are using a microblogging platform.<br>
Surprised? Don't be.<br>
Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, VK, Fediverse are just a few.</p>
<p>Every microblogging platform implements it differently.<br>
Twitter is a place where everybody can see everybody else's posts.<br>
Facebook is for only reading posts from people you know in real life.<br>
Instagram is for posting photos and short videos.<br>
Tumblr is for normal blogging first and microblogging in form of comments.<br>
Reddit is similar to Tumblr except that it is more categorized and structured imo.</p>
<p>All of the platforms I just mentioned, except Fediverse, has something in common. <strong>They are centralized</strong>. Centralized means aech of these services have their own data centers where they aggregate credentials and data of their users. These data centers are rich in user data and appealing target for cyber criminals. Adding fuel to the fire, some of those companies put weak cyber security systems in place and couldn't very large data breaches.</p>
<h3>Fediverse is different</h3>
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<p>Fediverse is decentralized. There are many small servers (aka instances) communicating with each other. They collectively form Fediverse.</p>
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<p>Even though I said Fediverse is different from other microblogging platforms, threat of cyber attacks are very possible. Every instance carries user credentials and user data of its own users. If an instance was to be cyber attacked, only the users of that particular instance would be affected while rest of Fediverse function unaffected.</p>
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<h2>Mastodon</h2>
<p>I heard about Mastodon in a <a href="https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode6/" title="Decentralize It - S4/E6">IRL Podcast</a>. I just wanted to try that twitter like thing that somehow didn't have a central place to collect all the tweets everybody was posting. I created an account on some instance and tried it for few days.<br>
What I understood at the time was that, there are servers running Mastodon system and Mastodon systems on different servers can communicate with each other to inform about cross platform messages. Fediverse is formed when instances start sommunicating with each other.</p>
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<p>For example: I am @murteza on strawberry.garden instance and I need help to collect strawberries. When I post "We need @batman@gotham.city to help us collect strawberries🍓️", @batman from gotham.city instance will receive a notification from @murteza@strawberry.garden. </p>
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<h1>Deploying a Mastodon instance for my family</h1>
<p>I want to become a SysAdmin and know all about this server stuff. So I decided to deploy servers that I will need to maintain and learn about system administration during the process. I believe this is a good excuse to stay indoors during pandemic 😷️ (Emoji doesn't imply that I am sick, I am not. I also don't want to become one)</p>
<p>I deployed a NextCloud server for my family and a Jitsi server too. Why not add Mastodon to do pile as well. I rented a 5$/month server and a 100GB storage for database and user uploaded content for another 5$/month.</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.joinmastodon.org/" title="What is Mastodon?">Mastodon's documentation</a>'s installation guide part expects a SysAdmin to know more than I do. I also got help from <a href="https://computingforgeeks.com/install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-with-letsencrypt-ssl-certificate/" title="Install Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 With Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate">another guide</a>. But after try installing Mastodon twice and rollback once, <a href="https://yesil.club/">I got a working instance</a>. Since it is an instance for my family. I am not allowing account creation from outside, but only via invite.</p>
<p>Next piece of the puzzle will be backuping database and user data. I don't know what is the best way to approach this but we shall see.</p><!-- Comments -->
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