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with social media, accountability =/= presence

I have to disagree with the people who say that we need to “stay” and “fight“ for IG to be a better platform because in actuality, it’s our presence and engagement that gives them data, and therefore money. As long as they have those 2 things, they make their bottom line and won’t really care about its users desires unless they’re making a move for the optics. If we REALLY want to hold them accountable, we need to impact the money they make, which means permanently deleting or marking your account as inactive & never coming back. They’ll only care if they’re bleeding money— so make them bleed.

@gemfound

Feb 22, 2025

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having off-platform ways to keep up with your work

it’s always been true, but it bears repeating now: if you don’t have a way to keep up with your work outside of insta / twitter / fb / whatever else, you are doing the bidding of silicon valley. i get it - a lot of people get valuable exposure and leads from those platforms and can’t afford to completely disengage. but you definitely *can* afford to take the two to five minutes it takes to setup an account on substack / bear / pika / whatever and provide regular updates about your work, public appearances, job postings, etc. the effort required from you to do this is (for someone already pursuing a creative career) almost trivial. but so many people refuse to do so, and as a result become unwitting servants of silicon valley - and now that silicon valley has literally been directly installed into the government, they’ve also become unwitting servants of the standing administration. your exclusive presence on these platforms is a brutal weapon that these companies use to keep your fans hostage on them. shouldn’t you at least *try* to take that weapon away?

@dotmatrices

Mar 4, 2025

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Deleting Instagram

I haven’t been on Twitter for years and hardly touch FB, but I had been an active user on Instagram since 2012. I really like taking and sharing photos, and that had always been a fun place to do it. No more. With the changes the content moderation changes they’re making, leaving LGBTQ+ folks vulnerable to be targeted; their rolling back of DEI programs; their willing participation in far-right rhetoric and politics; it’s all too much and I’m out. As if Meta’s platform hadn’t already been increasingly enshittified, this was the final straw to announce how much worse it will get. And you know what? It feels freeing. Better to leave it behind and find new platforms to connect with people.

@zenlikeme

Jan 22, 2025

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unplatform - a guide for leaving social media

spent the last two weeks working on an interactive guide, recommendations database, and digital library (link depot) to help get people off of social media. the first draft is done now, and it's at the link to this post. it's still very much a work in progress (the library is especially thin atm) - which is why i wanted to share it here before unleashing it upon my IRL friends and the general public. i welcome any and all feedback, bug reports, and suggestions for things to add. i will be pushing updates to it out like a madman in the coming weeks, so be sure to check back every so often to see new additions to the database and library. additionally, i am still on the hunt for newsletters from local venues / community organizations / magazines / newspapers, etc. the only cities i have remotely covered so far are nyc, orlando, denver, brisbane, and little bits of worcester and chicago. if you know anything in your area that fits the bill, send it my way!

@dotmatrices

Jan 27, 2025

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normalize ai hate

it is your civic duty to mercilessly mock generative ai users as much as possible

@dotmatrices

Jan 18, 2025

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purging your yt subscriptions

chronological feeds on social media are a dying breed and it's so important to maintain the ones you still have

@dotmatrices

Apr 7, 2025

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