I know a lot of folks aren't gonna want to hear this, but we can't just keep leaving platforms and ceding the public square to bigoted clowns. Deleting Facebook/Instagram/Threads will not help in this moment. Rightwing bigots are all too happy to fill that vacuum with disinformation. Stay and fight.
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I'm all for fighting the good fight, but is that really possible on a platform where the rules are made by the enemy?
It could be that Bsky is such a space, or maybe something could be done with Mastodon.
They can all become Truth Social, which isn't by any measure a globally successful platform, while everyone else (all of us) reserves their energy and resources to reclaim representative democracy.
Staying did nothing but actively help it keep it afloat with users they did not deserve.
I’m taking care of me and mine.
We are working now to develop a new decentralized photo sharing site like Instagram
Go ahead. Raise your blood pressure, stress & anxiety levels. Sour your general disposition by arguing with Racists, Nazis and Misogynists on a continuous daily basis to serve some "need".
I'm sure your body, family & mental state will reward you appropriately.
No one needs to waste their time in these spaces, while they're being used for profit, just because too-online people think it's important.
No one will see it and you'll just be another pair of eyeballs for them to make add revenue off.
You're asking people to drink from a well that fascists have shat in, and it's a hard sell.
All they're looking for is my attention.
Social media is not reality and gives people an inflated sense of relevancy that rarely translates to the real world. Its a lot harder to shame someone online than to their face.
Leave platforms, stop giving power to the undeserved.
The question is whether it's advisable to leave Facebook, Instagram, AND Threads, as least as of right now. I think Charlotte's advice is correct there.
As much as I respect your opinion, staying on those places will further generate money towards ideals that we do not support. A loss of revenue is the only thing that these billionaires understand.
Justice system needs time to work. Fail
Voters need to vote out traitors. Fail.
The 4th estate needs to report facts. Fail.
Social media empires need to moderate the hate and lies. Fail.
Some of us are done with all that.
We may need an underground letter writing📝 system.
FB, like it or not, is my connection to communities, businesses & far-flung family & friends.
No one is taking that.
Soc media has become a new way of communicating.
We can work around those twits.
Facebook, twitter, they were never public. They’re a private organization and have always controlled who gets to say what and when.
Staying and fighting is suicidal. The people that need to hear the truth won’t. Not on that platform. Not from mainstream media. Not their particular fringe media.
If you’re gong to try and be pedantic, like that… get it right. Because you can’t remove a person from a true public square just for saying trump is a fascist. Or that Musk is a nazi. Or Bezos is a Reptilian.
But meta, x and truth social can. Because they’re private.
Which is my point
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It would be most similar to a coffee shop that’s open to the public, who can ask you to leave if you express views that are “odious”
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Was never on anything but FB...and hadn't logged in in over 5 years when I finally deleted it.
Think I'll stick to the platforms that AREN'T run by complicit, spineless, and scumbag anti-democracy elitists.
"preaching to the choir doesn't always advance the topic of the sermon"
as a wonderful Priest friend of mine once said
And honestly, the key is not winning over Trump supporters it’s reigniting the Dems who chose not to vote. FB won’t be a whole lot different than X or Fox in terms of persuasion capabilities.
Protecting my peace
It’s an old, tired message and it turns out we can’t fight for shit
No those platforms cannot have access to me or my data if I can help it
I'm with Cuban, leave them to ruin.
Staying = more money for Meta
Fighting = much more money for Meta
It’s the 2025 version of not picking a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
It really is that simple. Is MySpace still relevant?
https://bsky.app/profile/cnn.com/post/3lf6m4eapok2b