What's the last straw that made you quit commercial social medias (Meta,TwitterX, etc...)?
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Musk unbanned Trump from Twitter.
My family relied on Facebook messenger for communication for a long time so I only just recently deleted it and Instagram after Zuck announced hate speech was explicitly allowed
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I’ve quit them all. For one of them, oddly enough, I can’t say without doxxing myself.
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obvious astroturfing
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Twitter/X was easy for me, as soon as Musk touched it I closed that account. Wasn't too active on there anyway.
Still on Instagram but planning to close that soon. Facebook is a bit trickier with all the older friends/family on there that probably won't move elsewhere. Then again most of the friends/family I see regularly already quiet quit Facebook so even if they have an account there it's not like they're posting anything.
Left Reddit during the API exodus.
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I joined Facebook back when you needed a .edu address, left because I hated it and I hated them stealing my data. I deleted my twitter after king bazinga bought it. Reddit was the API exodus, but the massive numbers of repost bots and awful liberals really had me tired of the fucking place for a long time before that.
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Citizen Four documentary
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I quit Reddit when they killed third party apps, I quit Twitter when Musk bought it.
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What made me leave Facebook was discovering Reddit. What made me leave Reddit was getting banned lol. What made me leave Twitter (or never actually ever bother much with it) is that it seems more like a big popularity contest than 'social' platform to me. Besides, if it was really social, there wouldn't be a character limit that benefits marketing speak and hashtags more than constructive conversation.
Never saw the point of places like Instagram that are based on being able to upload photos. Big deal, you can upload photos anywhere. And the only time I use YouTube is when I'm in the mood for music videos. I have less than zero interest in watching people's crappy home videos, it's like a worse form of reality TV. Oh, and I tried TikTok but noped out very quickly. I see absolutely no value in being spoonfed content by some shady algorithm as opposed to curating your own content.
Personally, I do not care if the platform that I'm on uses my data to advertise to me. I fell in with the 'privacy' crowd like a decade ago and did my time shaking my fists at big brother but I just don't care anymore. As long as the people on the platform are the kind of people that I could get along with, I'm fine. And quite capable of using an ad blocker if I so desire. I couldn't care less if Reddit used my posts in the Xena or She-Ra subreddits to advertise romance fantasy novels to me. There's more important things to focus on.
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Everyone I followed on Twitter left for Bluesky
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I left fb when I realized I was on it out of obligation and not because I wanted to be on it. The experience was degrading minute to minute. So I just decided to delete the account one day.
Never been on Twitter as I find in rather dumb long before it was bought by Musk. I am still hanging onto my reddit account because some of the communities are not there elsewhere.
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The use of automated tools that blindly ban based on keywords and the subreddit are out of control. As you found there is NO attempt to put anything in context. Truly moronic administration and violates their claim to be a "place for discussion". I got in trouble because I left a comment questioning antivaxxers in an antivax subreddit and suddenly got flooded with bans across reddit because I had left a comment in a politically incorrect subreddit. They use scripts to moderate. Of course there is NO recourse, no mods will listen to you, no reddit admin of the mods to contact, nothing.
My feeling is reddit has reduced discourse to bad puns, nothing even slightly controversial, must agree with the sub's echo chamber and ads, lots of ads. If you go against the herd you will be culled. Just smile and nod.
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How do I follow loops.video contents from pixelfed?
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Setup a matrix instance with a meta bridge and use that to slowly get rid of meta altogether. Works both for messenger and Instagram dms.
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That I am less sure of. The only way I got in was making a separate account at loops.video and downloading the app.
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Reddit API change, I never use any others
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Didn’t realize there was a meta bridge to messenger. That’s dope
Thankfully my family shifted to iMessage a while ago and at least that’s encrypted and doesn’t support the meta business. I deleted all of my Meta accounts already
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I don't think it's federated yet
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I didn't delete my accounts, I just use them much less.
I didn't exactly force myself, it's just that every time I are then doing shitty things I automatically associate their socials to the dire political situation in the US so I end up not using them.
Also, the advertisement: there's none in the fediverse, when I'm on the big tech apps I'm not used to adverts anymore
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Snowden revelations in 2013
