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Dr. Wesker @lemmy.sdf.org

4mo ago

If you've been considering deleting your social media accounts, now is probably an excellent time.

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Lemmy is the only social media I have at this point
- Same. I've returned to things like IRC for my online social time.
  
  Isn't that shit still sent in plaintext and permanently logged for all to see?
  
  YES IRC!!
  
  Man... efnet, Undernet and Dalnet running scrollz brings back memories.
  
  XMPP/Matrix for me, I like my, interoperability and E2EE.
  Well, that the usual spying messaging service I need for family members, fellow tenants and coworkers...
- I consider it more as pseudonymous forums than social media.
  
  That's fair. I just think of it as social media because we are interacting with other people when it's not bots posting
- What about LinkedIn? Is people jumping out of it?
  
  I only use linkedin as a resume. I don't post anything
  
  Oh right, I don't use it as social media but solely for job hunting.
  The fact I haven't touched it in a while means I'm at a comfortable spot, job-wise.

What? Because of the elections? I feel like it's always been an excellent time to delete social media accounts haha
- I don't disagree, I'm just saying if anyone was on the fence and needed a push.
  
  This guys over here pushing people off of fences! Must be a descendant of the guy who murdered Humpdy-Dumpdy.
  What? The nursery rhyme said he had a great fall. It never specified what CAUSED his fall!
  Yes. I AM in here spouting off nursery rhyme conspiracy theories. I figure the next 4 years don't matter. So I'm just going to forget any sense of self control, rational thinking, or empathatic morals. I'm just going to poop in the streets and blame.....eh, who can I blame......I'll blame Andy Dick. Seems like something he'd do. Nobody is going to question that!

I was answering a technical question on Reddit last night when I realized that, while it might help the person asking it, I am also fueling Reddits profits, training AI, and supporting a big American corporation by providing free knowledge.
So I reconsidered and I deleted the answer I was writing.
I will use my reddit account read only from now. No more upvotes, no more downvotes, no more comments. AdBlock enabled using Firefox for all sites. I already use Linux instead of Microsoft. I don't have Facebook or Instagram. I de-googled my online accounts and e-mail and moved my domains and e-mail to a Swiss company. I drive German cars. I will consciously start vetting my purchases to be not from the US or China. I will buy local as much as I can. When I build software, I will not host it on Google or azure or aws. I'm looking at nextcloud for my next pet project.
The list is growing, and every little item I can add to it gives me a little more satisfaction and peace of mind.
- There's also an extension which always redirects you to old.reddit.con too as an extra fuck you to their shitty UI. I think it's literally called "Old Reddit Redirect" or something
  
  I use tampermonkey with the old reddit redirect script

I've been wondering something, specifically related to something I heard mentioned last night on a stream: their hypothesis was that real life ground game, door knocking or whatever, doesn't matter any more, and the modern 'ground game' is social media and 1:1 conversations.
When 'reasonable' people delete/deleted twitter/facebook in droves, are we just ceding the ground game to the racists and the ones who can shout the most hate?
- When 'reasonable' people delete/deleted twitter/facebook in droves, are we just ceding the ground game to the racists and the ones who can shout the most hate?
  Leaving a toxic environment that also is a privacy and advertising nightmare will always be an excellent personal choice.
  
  The point being, an excellent personal choice at the expense of the greater whole?
  
  leaves Earth
  Gooood byeeeeeeeeeeeee
- are we just ceding
  it was a noble effort, but that battle is lost. at this point you're just making yourself a target. not that social medias won't relinquish your data to the gestapo the instant it's demanded. which they probably did years ago
- I still somewhat cling to this same belief although I think it's a futile effort as you're not just competing against randos online, but networks of bots, disinformation campaigns, state actors, and an army of gullible individuals who parrot their rhetoric. You just can't compete against that as a single person.

I also went into NextDNS and put blocks on the news sites I got into the habit of checking. Fuck this, I’m not even in the US.

back to the basics.

What if I were considering deleting my conciousness for the next 4 years? I genuinely feel like I would be happier in a coma for the next 4 years.
I'm not joking. Let's do this.

I deleted them all back around 2015. Only use this, and not seriously.

1000%

Here in Lemmy using Sync, one can filter words from headers and content. I sanitized my time-line and I'm just gliding through.
- Yep, and having used sync for over a decade makes me not miss reddit at all. It looks nearly identical anyway, I never used either website unless for the initial signup.

Facebook deleted in 2017 and Twitter months before it was bought by you know who. I don't miss either of them. I love how Lemmy isn't all spammy.

I'm stuck with Facebook because of Messenger, but I've deleted everything else
- Delete that, too. It was the last stranglehold Facebook had on me, but I decided to get rid of it, let friends/family know how they could contact me instead, and hell, most of them ended up following me to Signal (or just plain ol' Discord) anyways.

Way ahead of you. I deleted all my social media last decade and never went back. Hardly used it to begin with
- I'm not on Lemmy
  
  This is not social. It's antisocial!

How so?

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