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I deleted my / account forever ago.

I deleted my account shortly after.

A few days ago I messaged all the people I know on to tell them I'd be deleting my account. A few minutes ago I deleted it and uninstalled the app.

A few minutes ago I also requested a download of my and content (both have been locked down and unused for years). A few seconds ago I deleted both accounts.

comes out of the archive when I'm looking for work, and goes back in as soon as I get hired again. I'm strongly considering deleting that account as well, because fuck LinkedIn and .

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So what am I doing in place of all these toxic, bullshit platforms? I'm glad you asked...

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With Meta bending the knee to a Musk addled Trump, social media is in a politico-corporate bubble.

And these bros in arms say it's all in the name of free speech! It's enough to make you think double.

Breaking these monopolies and fostering diverse, user-driven platforms is essential to ensuring a free and fair society.

Read our latest blog ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/musk-and-zuck-engineering-free-speech/

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ver.di und GEW verlassen Twitter-Nachfolger X
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".. Forum f... Verbreitung v. rechtsextremistischen Positionen, v. Hass + Hetze, v. Demokratiefeindlichkeit + Desinformation. .. immer offensichtlicher, dass .. Algorithmen .. demokratiefeindliche Narrative bevorzugt behandeln + diese Marginalisierung d. überwiegenden Mehrheit .. als Meinungsfreiheit bezeichnen."

https://www.verdi.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/++co++4efef46a-ce70-11ef-8d62-45527a6f3340

9.1.2025

Delete your and go join instead. Trust me you'll have a better time, and still enjoy the same features for the most part.

Delete your and go join . It has a lot of the same features and it is free, doesn't have ads, and isn't run by a corporation.

Delete your , , or account, and go join . Trust me you won't miss anything from them since Mastodon is a lot like them without the ads, or the corporate shittyness.

Go try out instead of . It is shaping up to be a great alternative to TikTok.

Go try out it is a lot like , and it doesn't have ads, nor any of the crap that comes from being owned by .

Go try out it is a lot like , but …

New study: "Although users [of / ] estimated to be pro-Trump/conservative were indeed substantially more likely to be suspended [for ] than those estimated to be pro-Biden/liberal, users who were pro-Trump/conservative also shared far more links to various sets of low-quality news sites —even when news quality was determined by politically balanced groups of laypeople, or groups of only Republican laypeople— and had higher estimated likelihoods of being bots."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07942-8

is going the way of

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-new-hate-speech-rules-allow-users-call-lgbtq-people-mentally-ill-rcna186700

"Meta's new guidelines permit users to say people are mentally ill"

I'm not going to editorialize

Just this:

1. search "threads"

2. some profiles pop up

3. click a random one, it doesn't matter which, that ends in "@threads.net"

4. next to the follow button there, is a ... button, hit that

5. at the bottom of the choices, there's a "Block domain threads.net"

6. hit that

Facebook did not have an over-censorship problem. Facebook main problem was that its algorithms promote hate speech and disinformation, lately with the addition of inauthentic content. Fighting that through fact-checking is always going to be an uphill battle.

This is the reason I believe that content algorithms have no place in social media and that user profiling should be banned. Spreading misinformation and hate speech is a lot harder without the amplification algorithms.

https://mastodon.social/@eff/113789440544631242

@eff