Far too many posts are links to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the other big tech services. This needs to stop happening, right now.
Further, those links often contain link cruft, that undermines the privacy of the sharer, and everyone else who subsequently clicks the link.
Any and all traffic you send to this sites are metrics that result in financial gains for these companies. You are literally supporting the enemy every time you send traffic to them.
The way the web works, regarding monetization, is highly correlated with something called Acquisition. In laymen's terms, this means clicks. The site has somehow "acquired" you. Either through a search engine, a friend who shared a link, or some sort of referral. You landed on their site, and now you are a statistic, that these companies will wave around like a flag in front of the noses of the board of directors to prove that the service is worth its salt and making money.
These referrals are often tracked, by adding "cruft" to the URL. A pseudo example would be:
website.com/article-that-is-super-interesting?referral-ID=unique-identifier-1234_johnny_appleseed%facebook-tracking-code%source_ID=grandmas-backyard-lemonade-stand-wifi-connection%referral-ID-your-friend-ben-johnsons-email-address%cross-site-domain-cookie=i_searched_for_anime_porn_once
That is a fictitious example but the reality is that often times, the link you are sharing contains highly specific information about you, your whereabouts, the source of who shared the information with you, and who knows what else, since these tracking schemes are obfuscated with absurd strings of numbers that the end user has no hope of deciphering.
We need to become much more savvy with how we use the web, and what content we share here in this community. Use alternate services, like nitter, invidious, rumble, and gab. Stop contributing to big tech. Leave their services, today. Stop sharing their content. Take your wonderful ideas and content elsewhere. Make the competition stronger. Vote with your clicks, and your wallet. Stay away from free, and spend money on principles.
We take back the internet when the enemy services die from becoming irrelevant. There is a long history of this occurring, from CompuServe, to Netscape, to AOL, to MySpace, Tumblr, Pinterest and so on. The only power these services have, is their user base. The moment everyone picks up and leaves, is the moment these services collapse.
Do your part to shutter these evil services. Send them to the dustbin. Break yourself free of their grip on your attention and consideration.
Silence is golden.
Feel free to reply or message me directly if you have questions or need help. I am here to point you in the right direction.
You wrote that whole post? I'm sorry it won't make a bit of difference. NOT ONE SINGLE BIT. We're linking to a single tweet. We aren't saying, "Look at the tweet and browse al the ads and while you're there click on a couple" You're speaking about a couple grains of sand on a beach. More people die or lose access to more accounts daily then what you're talking about. It doesn't affect Big Tech at all. You want to tell Twitter, and Facebook to fuck off? Then stop logging into the sites. Either way, it's still nothing but a grain of sand on a beach. These companies have grown WAY too big and all you're doing is pissing yourself off over nothing you can control. I am not being a dick, I am just telling you facts. Cheer when the government steps in a breaks them up. Don't hold your breath because the evils own them too.
Yes. I am not sure I understand the question. Are you insinuating I had help writing it?
I can assure you I did it myself, and that it was trivially easy to do. If you have any questions about how I went about it, please ask, I will be happy to share.
No need to apologize.
Yes, go on.
I would not attempt to characterize what it is you or anyone else says. I'd just quote you, for posterity.
Whether or not I have commentary regarding what you wrote is another matter.
I can follow your analogy. What if one of those grains of sand is actually Botulinum toxin?
Your claim should probably include some sort of a source, but taken on face value, OK. Dealing with deceased user accounts is certainly an issue.
I do not see the relevance of deceased user accounts to what I am discussing, but feel free to explain the importance of them with regards to the topic at hand in your reply.
That is in effect what I am suggesting, yes.
This is demonstrably untrue. Get Woke Go Broke has reared its beautiful head many times recently, to the tune of Billions of dollars of devaluation for Twitter specifically.
I'll make this really simple: you either use the service, and therefore support it, or you do not use the service, and therefore help make it irrelevant.
Hopefully that is stated plainly enough to understand.
So far you've offered your opinion, with no corroborating evidence. If you want, we can post supporting data, no issue there with me.
Otherwise please know I am listening to your opinion and carefully considering it.
Ah, the dream of Uncle Sam fixing the problem for us. Because we could not possibly have any power ourselves, to simply turn our backs to the service, and allow them to wither on the vine of irrelevance.
No, only some outside force could possible save us from our own foibles. How could we ever be expected to have known this would have happened. It is not like the Terms of Service, written in plain language, was available for us to have reviewed before we agreed to use the service, therefore becoming bound to said terms. How could we ever make such a decision, completely of our own volition.
Hopefully your sarcasm meter is calibrated.
I suspect I know a lot more about the evils that fund these services than you, but feel free to teach me something I don't know about it already.
Perhaps start with Facebook's original angels. Which companies seeded the initial server farm expansion? Who was on the board of directors in the early years?
All very good questions, hope you know. All of what is happening now has been something we've warned you about for years now.
I find it hypocritical that you rant over "Big Tech" and you literally post links to YouTube. 13 days ago
I'm saying they've grown too big and yes we don't have the power to do it ourselves. The past goes to show why. Remember that whole Nike thing (Just burn it)? Remember when nobody was going to support the NFL/NBA? Netflix? Any of these out of business yet? NFLX and NKE are at all time high stock prices. Remember the great Twitter purge? That was just a month ago. Here's more data So those boycotts really did damage. We really showed them there (That's my sarcasm meter calibration test)
This is all I am going to feed you. There is no way I will change your mind. I support your intention here. But again. It's too big for us to handle on our own.
Pretend big brother steps in and regulates Twitter. Now what? We go back, sit down at the dinner table where everyone hates your guts? We take solace knowing that the government forced everyone at the dinner party to be nice to us? That sounds desirable? I'd rather gag myself with a spoon than hang out there.
Point taken on my hypocritical use of youtube. However I derive a great deal of valuable information from youtube without any negative effect, because I understand how the service works and how to block scripts, evade tracking, and minimize my footprint.
Youtube is not a community of users that hates my guts and wastes my time throwing propaganda in my face. I leach information from them, taking precisely what I want, consuming nothing I dislike, and giving them nothing in return.
Same for twitter but I only access it through nitter, since twitter uses more sophisticated js tracking that can not be disabled without breaking the site. More importantly, I have no desire to communicate using that medium. I'll consume select information behind nitter and otherwise have no use for the people that congregate there.
My argument is not that the services lack useful information. It is that we should not be subsidizing them by being a part of their user base, nor feeding their data mining efforts.