RT @sivavaid@twitter.com Quitting Facebook lets Google and Twitter off the hook. It lets AT&T off the hook. It lets Comcast off the hook. And it does nothing to hurt Facebook. Facebook does not care about one among 2.2 billion users. Act as a citizen, not a Facebook user. Demand regulation.
I honestly think all of these arguments come from people who for some reason can't bring themselves to leave Facebook. Yes, large structural change is needed, but you should also close your account. The site has one purpose: collect and sell your data and show you ads. That's it.
Does your own household recycling matter? No. We do it anyway and hope that as a society we'll all do it. Does your boycotting of corporations that support evil politicians matter alone? No. We do it anyway and hope many will join us. Boycotts work as a tactic. Boycott Facebook.
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
@omanreagan is there a *good* alternative to fb's group/event function, because I am never going to be able to pry certain people away from that monstrosity unless there is
@jannamark @omanreagan It's the egg and the chicken : there will never be a "good" alternative, until there is.
Media network need critical mass. Until then, you will basically be alone, and it will be under-developed in terms of features .. because there are no users to ask / test them, an too few contributors.
So at some point, we - the nerdy people - must take the lead on adoption and say "yes, we gonna build or pick a thing, and join it and bring life in it, until the critical mass is there"...
@aleks
A very good point. What do you think of supporting the #aardwolf project? We don't have a minimally viable product yet, but we are getting there, and could really use devs and testers.
We aim to #replacefacebook in much the same way Mastodon replaces Twitter. Open source, federated, and interoperable with Mastodon, diaspora, and more.
If you're interested, you can read more about the project at https://aardwolf.social/
@omanreagan @jannamark@octodon.socia
@aleks @omanreagan I am hoping you can make a recommendation, please. The community: a loose-knit and far flung group of people
who get together in different combinations and different public venues to make music for people (for free, donations cheerfully accepted)
We need a private and secure place to discuss and plan gigs, share info, music, pictures, video among ourselves, without endangering anyone's privacy/employability, no matter how stuck up their boss/corporation, plus a public face.