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Opting Out is The Road Not Taken

With respect and acknowledgement to Robert Frost. Two worlds diverged in the digital age, And sorry I could not live in both And be one person, long I weighed And looked down one as far…

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I left Twitter

I left Twitter. I exported my data, deleted my account, and don't miss it at all. I joined Twitter as @torproject initially, at the behest of community members insisting Twitter was a force for good…

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Walled Gardens Galore

A robot sits at a desk in front of a window

100% agree with jwz here, https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/ All the social networks I'm on are considered old, dinosaurs, or archaic. All this may be true, but IRC, XMPP, email lists, and the like are still around decades…

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Slow Social Media

Over the past few years I've become less and less involved in "social media". My twitter, my google plus--now migrated to this blog, my mastodon, and now my linkedin are basically one way feeds from…

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