What's the last straw that made you quit commercial social medias (Meta,TwitterX, etc...)?
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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
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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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there is a brdieg even for imessage... just saying...
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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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Welcome to Lemmy, I guess?
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I only really used Reddit, so during the API crisis I left.
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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 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’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 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 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
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I deleted my Facebook account during Covid. I wasn’t really using it anymore, but I really didn’t need to see anyone’s shitty takes on the virus.
I deleted my Twitter account when it was purchased by a Nazi shithead who has no business being as rich as he is for how dumb he is. I never really latched onto Twitter anyway, so that was no major loss.
I never used Instagram, but the idea seemed neat when it came out. Over time, it’s become less and less appealing.
I never had any interest in Snapchat. Still don’t.
Same for TikTok, but I don’t agree with the idea of the government banning it. The correct response would be to enact robust privacy laws, but that’s never going to happen.
I do still have a Reddit account, but I’m using it less and less. Pretty much only for some niche hobbies. I’ve never felt like Reddit fit with the other social media platforms.
I have a Mastodon account, but I don’t really use it. It still has the same problem Twitter did in that I don’t care about what’s going on there all that much. I want to file topics, not people.
I did set up a PixelFed account that I use quite a bit, but only for posting pics of my minis and seeing other people’s pics of their minis.
Lemmy feels a lot like early Reddit, and I’m liking it a lot.
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Facebook: was the death of my grandmother. Had no reason whatsoever to keep otherwise.
Instagram: got chronically on it and realized just how much anxiety it gave me.
Snap: same as Facebook minus grandma, just didn’t care after my last long term relationship. Got back on for a buddy of mine to just meme at each other.
TikTok:same as instagram. It was not healthy and the algorithm I was on was not helpful for quitting my addiction.
Spotify: lack of high fidelity streaming, moved to tidal whilst I build up my hifi library on plex and then I’ll do plex pass lifetime. -
I never used most of them. I quit reddit when genzedong went dark. Quit tiktok when the ads got more common a year ago or so. I still use a FOSS frontend to watch youtube videos does that count?
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I left reddit over API stuff, obviously.
Twitter had a few weeks where the algorithm was so broken people were getting recommended gore videos. Just a description of the most common one set off my OCD trying to avoid it. It was always kind of a shit website and not worth having an episode over, so I just deleted my account.
Tumblr's nsfw ban also nuked a bunch of communities that aren't inherently nsfw, but have large factions that are. Think like the furry fandom. I just woke up one day and my tags didn't work and my favorite creators were gone. PLUS the wording included the phrase "female-presenting nipples", which just sounds wildly transphobic and has no definition so they can ban whoever they want. And they doubled down on it a week later. Immediately uninstalled, heard they've only gotten more overtly transphobic since.
I don't even remember when I stopped using Facebook. I don't like being stalked by every heterosexual mom I went to church with as a teenager, so I never used it long.
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I realized that every time I composed a post, i was less thinking about what i have to say to my friends, and more thinking about things like "what censor will see this", or "will this get me banned", or any other number of unfun and agency-draining things.
