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Mx. Riley (robin@social.riley.pub)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:18:04 JST Mx. Riley

Seeing the latest news that Meta is now asking users for permission to mine their unpublished photos, I'm re-upping on this: are you still on Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp?
I've had friends say that me leaving FB made their feeds noticeably less interesting, and they were spending less time there.
The network effect does work in reverse!
If you're still on Meta services, ask yourself: what would it take to leave? It can be incremental! https://blog.riley.pub/walking-away-from-facebook/
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  Walking away from Facebook
  
  In this blog post, I detail my approach to leaving Facebook and other Meta services, and share my rationale. But I do not aim to persuade, and I don't judge people for making different choices – everyone's circumstances are different. If you're not interested in the "why," scroll on down to
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  Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 02:57:18 JST Rich Felker
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  @robin There's a grayhat version of this too. If they leave their phones unattended, subscribe to stuff that will make Facebook more unpleant. 😈
  Not nazi pipeline stuff, block that shit if you see it. Just whatever you can find that's super annoying.
  
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