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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:31:25 JST Chris Trottier

   Yesterday, Hasan Minhaj deleted Twitter.

   Today, Billie Eilish says she's deleted all her social media apps.

   This is becoming a big trend amongst prominent people.

   It's clear that social media has become toxic.

   Yet I don't think the solution is to get rid of social media. That's because social media is core to peoples' lives. For all its negativity, it still empowers people.

   Instead, we should be building less toxic social media.

   https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/entertainment/billie-eilish-social-media-intl-scli/index.html

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 16:28:29 JST Chris Trottier

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     Honestly, I'm torn about social media.

     I know full well how harmful and addictive it can be, and how Big Social exploits so many people.

     However, I also know that it's given so many marginalized people a new lease on life.

     It's helped disabled people socialize. It's assisted people living in remote communities to talk to each other. And yeah, #MeToo was a big moment.

     Getting rid of social media isn't the answer.

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     Z O R A N G R B I C (zorangrbic@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 16:28:29 JST Z O R A N G R B I C

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     @atomicpoet The annoying thing, according to me, is that the techbro's have hijacked the term social media. It's not.

     Mastodon is social media. A lot of what's happening in the #fediverse is social. What we call "social media" is just the environment money obsessed people created in order to earn even more. There isn't anything closely social about what they did.

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     Z O R A N G R B I C (zorangrbic@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 16:28:54 JST Z O R A N G R B I C

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     @atomicpoet I don't know what account he deleted, but his YouTube channel twitter account is still going strong.

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