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.
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.
Here in Lemmy using Sync, one can filter words from headers and content. I sanitized my time-line and I’m just gliding through.
Lemmy is the only social media I have at this point
Isn’t that shit still sent in plaintext and permanently logged for all to see?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe by default IRC is only logged if the client opts to log it. I don’t remember being able to see message history when joining a channel back in the day, so I’m not sure if servers themselves keep logs by default.
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 actually disagree with both being on social media, and leaving, so I’m choosing the third option of joining a fake social media website that doesn’t actually connect you to anyone else, but it has all the features I would want if it did.
