Have you already deleted or are planning to delete your Threads/Instagram/Facebook/WhatsApp account in light of recent policy changes?
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Mike Fraser :Jets:
In response to this post@Gargron No because I never used those services to begin with. I have accounts but they're dormant and always have been.
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Kay :heart_bi: :tinoflag:
In response to this post@Gargron not deleting yet as I admin too many groups. Following other group leaders into other spaces as they set them up, e.g. into Discord for group chats
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kcarruthers
In response to this post@Gargron I’m in the process of deleting. Threads and Instagram are gone. Just waiting for my download to delete FB.
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Nomdeb WILL NOT ACQUIESCE
In response to this post@Gargron I dumped Facebook over a decade ago. Got tired of the opt in whack a mole for privacy. I almost never used WhatsApp and a couple of years ago closed my account. Refused requests to use it again. Never joined Threads. Am in the process of shutting down Instagram - gathering contact info. I liked how I used my locked Insta. It was like a glossy magazine, makers and artists and crafters, etc. I wonder if remaining on Twitter enabled Musk to be where he is today. Will not enable Zuckerberg.
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Heliograph
In response to this post@Gargron never had accounts with them but definitely would delete them asap if I had
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Jay Thoden van Velzen ☁️🛡️:lolsob:
In response to this post@Gargron i never had an account on any of these services
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S Vermin Rose
In response to this post@Gargron Does having exited 4 years ago because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal count?
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Michael Kohlman
In response to this post@Gargron Yes, but with a big Asterix.
I'm already exporting my FB data for my two "public" FB pages (one photography and one career) ahead of a likely walk-away, and I am looking hard at Friendica as a probable home.
My personal/private FB page, which is close friends and family, will likely remain as it unfortunately is the place for critical information-sharing between that group.
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Mark Smith
In response to this post@Gargron it’s a hard call. My church and family responsibilities may require me to stay silently
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David Zappelli
In response to this post@Gargron Yes, I requested the Facebook and Instgram information, and I just received the download today. I hardly used Instagram, and I limited my activities on Facebook, never allowing it to become the "Facebook of everything".
I was already disliking Facebook before the MAGA takeover. "Enshittification" is real. I saw serious problems all the way back to 2014 or so, before Trump began to ran, and the Tea Party was taking off, and so on. Managing Pages, groups, and even advertising got to be absolutely crazy, and burdensome. I started seeing serious issues with ads, and bona fide users or accounts, etc. especially when I was also managing a NationBuilder website, which gave me lots of insight between social media accounts, emails, duplicate accounts, phoney accounts, etc.
Over time, Facebook has been taking away our powers in several ways than one, and anyone who keeps investing in it, especially in terms of dollars, is foolish, in my opinion.
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Ryan Frederick
In response to this post@Gargron I deleted my FB account when I saw things like this coming way back in 2009. I've never looked back.
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crabbypup
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My fb account had been dormant for a year, and I hadn't logged into it, so I deleted it entirely yesterday.
I sent messages to people I only contact on messenger that I actually care about talking to so they could find me elsewhere, and I'm deleting messenger at the end of next week.
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lupus_blackfur
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And I say no...
Only because I've never had any of those accounts.
Can't delete what I've never had and never will have.
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Ivana
In response to this post@Gargron I would but I keep contact with people overseas, also admin a dog group that’s a kind community. Have visited people from that group in several countries. 🤷🏻♀️
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Tim Bray
In response to this post@Gargron A couple branches of my family and a music jam club are on Meta properties. Letting go would be very painful.
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JD
In response to this post@Gargron I deleted mine nearly a decade ago. Glad others are doing the same finally. 🖖
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Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥
In response to this post@Gargron I'm planning on keeping them only if someone asks to communicate on them. I'm encouraging people to use #Mastodon or #Friendica instead.
Tags: #mastodon #friendica
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Lety Does Stuff
In response to this post@Gargron Responded “No” as since I migrated to Fedi, all my legacy social media accounts exist solely as a landing page to tell people I'm on Fedi
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高文偉 Wen-Wei (ltlnx) Kao
In response to this post@Gargron The design scene is ingrained with the app where I live, so for me it's a sad no.
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RicoSuave
In response to this post@Gargron Never had one, never will. Seemed stenchy from the git-go. Blocked all I could on my devices via IP ranges, etc. Did what I could, and hope that my family members ditch them.
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Chris W
In response to this post@Gargron I’d love to, but right now all of my social groups and local small businesses and small biz support orgs are only on FB / Instagram.
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霖 リン
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Planning to delete my account and create a new empty one to read some info I need in their garden wall.
I doubt it's any better. :hornyJail:
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Derek Caelin is writing a book
In response to this post@Gargron Facebook has absorbed the civic space of my town, so I have to use that to organize. I don't have an excuse for Instagram.
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yayael
In response to this post@Gargron The main reason I still keep those accounts is so that people can't use my username in them, but otherwise, they're dead as hell.
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Netrunner_Zer0
In response to this post@Gargron My Threads is done and gone. Getting rid of Instagram and Facebook is unfortunately a harder decision to make due to that being how I stay in touch with family and old friends...
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Hope
In response to this post@fusser727 @Gargron I did that in 2021, now do yours lol. Just because I never used it, and I didn't want family yelling at me about what I posted. That's literally what happened.
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CyborgNekoSica || Comms Open
In response to this post@Gargron I already deleted my FB & IG long long time ago before any of this.
Fow whatsapp, unfortunately no, since almost my friend and my work related stuff require that app for comunication and sending document
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Boerps ☑️
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I did'nt have one.
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Adam R. Wood
In response to this post@Gargron Never had one, never will, never would have.
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kainisenni
In response to this post@Gargron Never used FB, IG, or Threads. But WhatsApp is too strong here. It's technically and functionally inferior to Signal, but the network effect is doing its thing...
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tuban_muzuru
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I'm long gone
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moggie
In response to this postI have never had an account on any of those services so I'm spared from making a choice here.
@Gargron
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Peter Drake
In response to this post@Gargron The last straw for me was when they rejected ads for the Votes for Women historical board game on the grounds that it was a sensitive political topic.
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Joe
In response to this post@Gargron I'm disgusted with them, but it's the only way to communicate with some family. So I'll use it a lot less but at least for now, I'll keep it. I'm not on Threads and won't ever go there.
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Rémi du Nord
In response to this post@Gargron only if my friends migrate to Signal, and that won't happen
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Hadewych
In response to this post@Gargron signal is a great alternative to whatsapp and mastodon to twitter, but for me there are no alternatives to facebook or linkedin
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Michael Meese 🇪🇺
In response to this post@Gargron I stopped using Facebook, Instagram, and X years ago but never deleted my accounts. I’ve been ‘squatting’ on them, worried that deleting could make identity theft easier since I used to be active. With scams like ‘Enkeltrick’ on the rise, I’m tempted to delete them all but still unsure. What’s your take?
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lgsp
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- Facebook: local groups for selling/buying
- WhatsApp by far the most important communication mean
😢
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Michal Bryxí 🌱
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✅ Threads (never had one)
✅ Facebook (years ago)
❌ WhatsApp - virtually every sync communication in the country I live in happens there
❌ Instagram - not entirely impossible, but catching up with some friends happens only through there
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Faltsu
In response to this post@Gargron Yeah, I'm planning to leave them (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp). I've been on FB since I was 13 and I've had enough. Some of my friendships rely on IG and WA, but I think I might have a twisted sense of friendship due to being subjected to Meta's social media platforms for over half of my life.
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Solarpunklifer
In response to this post@Gargron I wish I could, but need it for work for now. I'm gunning for Zuckerbergs self-destructive tendencies solving my dilemma during 2025.
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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
In response to this post@Gargron I've managed to move one of my professional requirement groups off of Facebook to a non-Meta non-X platform. Unfortunately, other people are more resistant. But I am pushing.
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spla :senyera: :fed: :vim:
In response to this post@Gargron yes, I'm a proud Meta-free person now.
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Vile Lasagna
In response to this post@Gargron not in light of recent events, no. I deleted all of that years and years ago
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Robbie 🇧🇪 :tux:
In response to this post@Gargron Deleted years ago except whatsapp which is compulsory at the school I work at. I use alternatives with friends and family though.
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Olivier Mengué
In response to this post@Gargron I have never created a Facebook account because of its policy from the start.
I'm using WhatsApp (due to social pressure) in a restricted way (no access to my phone's contacts, no backup as that requires linking another account).
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nidoЯ
In response to this post@Gargron got rid of WhatsApp years ago when Meta changed it's T&C's and the data they collect from your device...and switched to Signal.
Never had an Instagram account, campaigned against Threads, and its federation here - very scorpion and frog allowing its federation. As for Facebook had one 10years ago for the briefest of moments, and under fake details... obviously didn't trust them then, and that was long before the whole Cambridge Analytica disgrace.
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Mackaj
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I've not deleted FB or Instagram but have stopped using them. FB might get 5 mins at the weekend but that's it. Haven't touched Threads.
WhatsApp I can't walk away from. Virtually everyone I interact with is on it and uses it. Meta can't scrape my chats and I don't join random groups so I'm unlikely to see objectionable content.
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Ascendor
In response to this post@gargron deleted 3 years ago. Had only whatsapp anyway
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Gry
In response to this post@Gargron I do not have good alternatives yet for some of my use of FB and WhatsApp, as in "am I able to make people switch", but I stopped actively sharing content long ago
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foxintundra
In response to this post@Gargron account only on Instagram, following many people because of book and stationery content… I have no replacement for that :/
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Tats 🇬🇧🥧
In response to this post@Gargron already did it on January 1.
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Jannes Neumann
In response to this post@Gargron deleted my accounts at Facebook and instagram, and twitter when Musk announced his wish to take over.
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Greg
In response to this post@Gargron Just curious; does anyone know a ballpark figure for how much an advertiser pays for an advert on, say FB?
I was wondering whether the Fediverse or some new entity could go head to head with many of the commercial social media companies, all at once, by taking a no-advertising, federated, not-for-profit micro payments approach. Would have to carefully cover (almost) all of the use cases of all social media and be really well designed but the micro payments would just cover costs and not profits, so may be acceptable as a substitute for adverts to users?
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cedricdes
In response to this post@Gargron am I the only one to have temporarily deactivated my fb and instagram accounts?
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nicht_bei_social_media
In response to this post@Gargron Deleted my WhatsApp Account at the time Facebook bought them.
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Paul McO'Smith III
In response to this post@Gargron does never having one, and increasingly pleased with that decision, count?
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Paul Versluis
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I deleted my account for FB and IN in 2018.
I never joined TH.
Now, WA is a tough one. In The Netherlands, WA has been kind of the de facto standard messaging app for years, even before it was acquired by Zuck.
I am currently trying to get all my contacts to switch to Signal, but it will need time.
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J M Berntson
In response to this post@Gargron Need to put some effort into seeing if I want to save anything, including making sure that I can keep in contact with people elsewhere but I've already deleted the app from my phone and changed my browser bookmark so it only shows my friends' posts.
I'll announce that I'm going to delete my account shortly.
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Lukas
In response to this post@Gargron I could not get any of my friends to move to pixelfed ☹️
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sebu
In response to this post@Gargron yep back in 2018, the day Cambridge Analytica popup, without warning or regret from my friends, familly and followers, leaving just a final message on every account before #deletefacebook #deleteinstagram #deletewhatsapp
Tags: #deletefacebook #deleteinstagram #deletewhatsapp
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Blyatskrieg
In response to this post@Gargron maybe follow up with a more diversified? poll for the specific services. I guess WhatsApp will be a huge show stopper here
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Derick Rethans
In response to this post@Gargron I don't use any besides WA, and I can't get rid of that, even though I want to.
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SaxoR
In response to this post@Gargron I find myself in a constant back and forth with this. On the one hand, I do barely use Instagram. I have an occasional update post from a trip or experience with my friends and family. My Facebook account was last updated late 2023 and not even for posting. On the other, a majority of my circle revolves around online interactions with Instagram posts. If I were to deactivate or even delete my accounts, the isolation would likely rift my connection to my social circle.
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Jonato Ieri
In response to this post@Gargron Hell yes, I’m planning to delete my Threads-Instagram account. And never had Facebook.
But I wouldn’t have a clue of how to replace WhatsApp. Any ideas, to replace the phone number-based messaging app?
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Dan'sFine :blobcat_thisisfine:
In response to this post@Gargron Did that a while ago, the only one left is Instagram that I never use.
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Neblib
In response to this post@Gargron I never did Insta, federation made a Threads not necessary. Fb I have to keep a shell account for Fb Marketplace and a few times a year check on my extended family. WhatsApp was a hard enough move to get people to from SMS, very few joined me to Signal. I'm hoping more can follow me here eventually, but microblogging for me will likely remain mostly with internet strangers around shared topics and use messaging for those closer.
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Intersexo PCD :verifiedtrans:
In response to this post@Gargron WhatsApp is a question for freelancers like me. Because most clients use WhatsApp for contact, these people don't intend to leave it. So you're obliged to stay on the app.
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Iαη
In response to this post@Gargron
Where can we create special interest, or family GROUPS on the Fediverse? Mastodon doesn't have real groups.
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Jan Niklas Fingerle
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Yes, regarding Instagram. I've tried to move two WhatsApp groups to Signal, but this didn't work in case of the group regarding child care.
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Synth :verified:
In response to this post@Gargron deleted them all 5 years ago.
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