What's the last straw that made you quit commercial social medias (Meta,TwitterX, etc...)?
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I quit Reddit and deleted my account after nearly a decade last week. I just found it to be a source of consistent stress. It got to the point where the most innocuous comments kept getting me temporarily banned from subreddits. The final coffin nail was when somebody posted an article about how the Trump administration scrubbed all the information on HIV/AIDS from government health websites. I replied in the comments, "Double plus good." Apparently Redditors thought that I was endorsing this censorship as a good idea and downvoted me. So to clarify, I edited my comment and said underneath, "For those downvoting me, read the novel 1984 by George Orwell." That's all. I didn't say, "You fucking idiots need to read a goddamn book!" I simply cited the reference for my original comment. For this statement I got a three day ban not just from the subreddit but all of Reddit due to harassment. The ban was automatically imposed by the bots, so I had an opportunity to appeal and have a real person review it. I did so and they kept the ban, so I decided enough was enough.
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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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.
My FB feed is 90% random groups and video crap now.
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Loops.video is a great insta/tiktok replacement for dog/cat videos at least.
How do I follow loops.video contents from pixelfed?
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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
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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How do I follow loops.video contents from pixelfed?
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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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
Reddit API change, I never use any others
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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.
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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How do I follow loops.video contents from pixelfed?
I don't think it's federated yet
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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
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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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
Snowden revelations in 2013
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I quit Reddit and deleted my account after nearly a decade last week. I just found it to be a source of consistent stress. It got to the point where the most innocuous comments kept getting me temporarily banned from subreddits. The final coffin nail was when somebody posted an article about how the Trump administration scrubbed all the information on HIV/AIDS from government health websites. I replied in the comments, "Double plus good." Apparently Redditors thought that I was endorsing this censorship as a good idea and downvoted me. So to clarify, I edited my comment and said underneath, "For those downvoting me, read the novel 1984 by George Orwell." That's all. I didn't say, "You fucking idiots need to read a goddamn book!" I simply cited the reference for my original comment. For this statement I got a three day ban not just from the subreddit but all of Reddit due to harassment. The ban was automatically imposed by the bots, so I had an opportunity to appeal and have a real person review it. I did so and they kept the ban, so I decided enough was enough.
I think people don't even realize the scale of the removals, because when it isn't banning you the platform goes out of its way to hide it from you when your comments are removed, it looks like it is still there while you are logged in but no one else can see it, I only even find out by using the reveddit extension, and I've been banned from subreddits just for mentioning that there's a way to do this. It's usually a totally innocuous comment that gets removed, assuming they just have a keyword that triggered a bot or a mod just didn't like what I said and clicked delete. What they're doing can hardly be termed 'moderation' anymore.
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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
there is a brdieg even for imessage... just saying...
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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
FB: I gradually felt more bored with it, so I started to log in less frequently. I think I haven't logged in for at least five years, but I had already stopped using it regularly about a decade ago.
Twitter: As above, but the toxicity of the environment was what pushed me away.
YouTube: Newpipe. I only log in when I really, really really need to message someone on the platform or if I need to upload content (like once in a year or less).
Reddit: the API change, although I have logged in a couple times last year to ask things we don't have active communities for here. Niche stuff.
Deviantart: their Eclipse "upgrade", which trashed all the search system and the way art circulated.
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They wish to drive away the people who wish to speak the truth. I created an account here yesterday to hedge against Reddit becoming even more of a cesspool.
Welcome to Lemmy, I guess?
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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
I only really used Reddit, so during the API crisis I left.
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I only really used Reddit, so during the API crisis I left.
Same. But before that. The last straw for me was in 2019 I think where Instagram announced they will use your Pictures for AI.
I left it. But I managed to leave everything and go to reddit, after destroying my Phone and using an old Phone without google on it.
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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
I signed up for Twitter in 2020. After Elon took over, stuff changed for the worst day by day. The app is now horrible. I got tired of it so I deleted it
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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
I’m British and quit Facebook and Instagram after Brexit.
Once the Cambridge Analytica stuff came to light, and I realised how these platforms could be (and were being) subverted politically to spread misinformation it was the final push I needed.
Seeing the Covid anti-vax stuff that followed only reinforced how I felt.
I never really used twitter, and decided to leave it that was when Musk took over.
I 99% stopped using Reddit after the 3rd party apps stuff and it became clear what their ambitions for the platform were (although I still check certain things there occasionally).
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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
I quit Facebook/Insta long ago but started perma deleting stagnant accounts a little after Cambridge Analytic stuff I think? It was my first real eye-opening moment when it came to data privacy and the whole misinformation cesspool that is social media.
Reddit when 3rd party apps were dropped.
Twitter partly when Musk killed 3rd party apps...then fully when he became a shithead.
Snapchat mostly because it annoyed me.
Never used TikTok other than viewing a video someone sent me in a web browser.
Bonus because I'm still salty: Prime when they introduced ads in Prime Video.
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I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
I deleted messenger once I finally convinced the people I give a shit about to switch over to safer platforms. Hadn’t posted on or touched FB in years at that point though. That also prompted me to move to Lemmy (my only real feed-based media consumption); that plus the constant influx of doomscrolling bullshit after the latest US election.
I don’t “use” Xitter and haven’t for many, many years aside from news for legitimate emergencies that had no other alternative. Stopped using IG after they tried to copy TikTok.
TL;DR: Enshitification + increasing threat to human rights
