What's the last straw that made you quit commercial social medias (Meta,TwitterX, etc...)?
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Yer mums over here.
Or the reddit API shenanigans.
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I left Twitter sometime after Elon bought it. The content in my feed drastically changed and was filled with racism, Nazi glorifiction, and child prawn. Reporting these posts did nothing, the automated respone system kept claiming there was no violation. So I deleted my account and never came back. I also actively avoid clicking on Twitter post links.
I didn't quit Reddit, but it quit me. Reddit perma-banned me for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza. An admin even called me a "disgusting Nazi simp" because I opposed the genocide. The amount of admin and mod gaslighting & abuse is at an all time high.
I don't do the Meta stuff because of all the cross platform account linking. I still have a FB account, but it's not my real name, it lacks personal info, and it's only to stay connected with family and IRL friends.
I got banned from Tiktok preemptively and I never learned why. I didn't even have an account, but when I went to make one on my work phone, it said I'm banned. Weird. I tried making an account using my home phone as a test and it worked, but I just deleted it afterward without posting anything.
There really needs to be a digital bill of rights or something.
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Yeah, same here.
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Getting children and realizing that privacy is important with all the data leaks, misuse of data, maybe not having their pictures and videos out there, trained on, misused. That's when degoogling started and with it quitting fb and Twitter and looking for alternatives. I am still lurking on LinkedIn and reddit though. But using foss redreader, reddit is actually still quite nice as a link aggregator and information source. And well , although LinkedIn has degraded so much over the last years, it somehow still seems to be a good source of information for everything job related.
But as this was my last straw, how do you see the future? Teenagers will still be teenagers and they will be urged to use anything that is popular due to peer pressure. When I am thinking of that, it will probably be an impossible undertaking to prevent them of using any of these platforms
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Stopped using Facebook when they killed the feed and started inputting random shit instead of posts of people I actually know. Slowed way down on reddit and came here when they killed RIF. Never had Twitter because it was a cesspool even before Elon. Never had Snapchat, or be real or tiktok because they all seemed stupid, and in the last one's case, I didn't want the CCP having any information about me. I still technically have a Facebook for marketplace and will check it on occasion, but I haven't posted on probably like 8 years.
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I never joined them to begin with.
A circle-jerk of "look how great I imagine myself but actually am not". -
I stayed away from FB for a long time, and my cousin finally convinced me to join to keep up with our big family. I left in 2016 because I kept getting in fights on there.
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There's also Pixelfed now to replace Instagram
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Quit?
You get banned from a lot more medias for simply speaking the truth.
Like saying Israel and the US are terrorists. -
All dumped for fuckwits actions against Canada. All social media and every American service. Personal, small business....all of it. Those chucklefucks and their technofacsism can fuck right off.
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After fully switching to Linux in 2022, I've pretty much ditched everything and anything mainstream; not just social media.
