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   Chucho :artix: (jrballesteros05@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 19:59:14 JST Chucho :artix:

   I think Facebook is mostly crap but I had to admit it was useful to contact people who I have long time without speaking to them, especially international friends so I used to have my account just for those cases. After more than 3 years without using Facebook I finally decides to delete my account today. I never have Instagram so I am close to be "deMetafied" in my life.

   Being degoogled is more difficult at the moment but I am working hard on it. Ironically whatsapp(Meta) in android relies on a Google account to do backups. So basically my main problem now is getting rid of WhatsApp.

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     Oleksii (oleksii@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:11:48 JST Oleksii

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     • murena
     • LineageOS

     @jrballesteros05 same story.
     @murena and @LineageOS are very helpful to get pure Android freedom

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     Chucho :artix: (jrballesteros05@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 20:18:37 JST Chucho :artix:

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     • murena
     • LineageOS
     • Oleksii

     @Oleksii @murena @LineageOS I use GrapheneOS at the moment with limited Google services installed. I want to ditch WhatsApp with XMPP but as I know there is not decent iOS client.

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     Chucho :artix: (jrballesteros05@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:03:20 JST Chucho :artix:

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     • CaveDave

     @engravecavedave Well, I guess everything depends on the person too. In my case I am not too social so for me it is easier to remove social media. I removed my twitter account in 2020 and I was not regret. I use WhatsApp because sadly is like the standard here but I am sure I will delete that crap too. I think everything is a process, I am getting close to get rid of both big techs.

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     CaveDave (engravecavedave@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 02:03:21 JST CaveDave

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     @jrballesteros05 I feel deMetaing myself was way harder for me than deGoogling. At least by what was that I had to give up ... with Google essentially nothing but conveniences, with Meta it was essentially my social life. Basically all my friends back in my country of origin and keeping up do date with their lives (because they'll just post life updates on FB and assume everyone saw them), people who refuse to use anything other than messenger.

     It was definitely the harder of two choices

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 15:47:24 JST 翠星石

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     @jrballesteros05 That is something that should not require doxing yourself via facebook - there should rather be a directory of general contact information you can choose to upload contact details to, but of course facebook and the government would not let that happen.
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     Chucho :artix: (jrballesteros05@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 17:10:37 JST Chucho :artix:

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     • 翠星石

     @Suiseiseki When I was a child I remember we used to receive such a big book every year from the government. We used to call it "Directory" in my country and that book was similar (if not the same) to the approach you purpose. In that time was OK because we didn't use to have mobile phones. It was more difficult to locate people sometimes but it was more or less OK.

     Now I have the feeling that sharing your phone number in a public site is like making things easier to spammers, I made the mistake of sharing my contact info in my CV and now I am receiving spam and scam calls all the time. This is making me consider to let my current number like a honeypot for scam and spam calls and get a new number just to give for people I trust.

     Of course sharing information in a private company where the main business is selling your data is a lot of worse.