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This is exactly how my leaving facebook started. After a few months without the app I logged out on desktop, and then it wasn't long until I deactivated my account. I'd like to delete it entirely but at the moment too many people still use messenger to contact me.
Wait, you can deactivate your account and still use messenger?
I kinda wish you could do that for events...
What we need are VIABLE solutions to social platforms... While people are deleting Facebook they're NOT deleting Instagram. Additionally, we're still vulnerable to a lot of the same attacks that impacted us in the 2016 election. These networks still hold your private connection graph, know what you're reading, can target you precisely with ads, etc. I'm building an app named Polar which is an offline-first document m…
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There are too many apps causing too many dopamine hits. How is anyone supposed to do the meaningful work or gain the appropriate skills in the supposedly AI/ML dominated future without doing deep work away from these things? Everyone deletes these apps and turns their phones to gray scale so they can focus. Speaking of focus, one thing I want to focus less on is the continual security/privacy nightmare of using Faceb…
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This seems tragically normal on Android. Uber is over 200MB. YouTube is 175MB! Yes, just the app not the cached data.
I feel that, idiotically, as phone sizes increased, app creators seem to think it's okay to double, triple, or quadruple the size of their original applications. Without adding anything significant on top of what was there to start. This is ludicrous. We are not gaining anything by having extra storage space if everything we had installed on our devices suddenly doubles or triples in size, because, hell, it can. I mi…
A reason I had: I will not support company that is having so much questionable practices as google has.
Tasks, done in two years:
- flashed android with Lineage + Microg (now it is much easyer - https://lineage.microg.org/ - no more google spyware on my phone
- redirected all my web traffic (all devices) trough ssh tunnel to home server where http://www.squid-cache.org/ is cleaning my web traffic from trackers, including caching cdns forever
- set up my own "cloud" (https://nextcloud.com/) to sync files, contacts and calendars
- set up my own mail server (postfix, dovecot)
- deleted my google account(s)
- banned all known google domains using hosts files on all devices
- removed google chrome from all devices
- stopped using google, replaced by duckduckgo - I no longer get so many results, but they are relevant instead of paid ads.
I am googless. And seeing sharp ;)
The hardest thing was to stop typing google into address bar. And stopped using "I googled...".
Everything else was simple.
That's why Facebook's quarterly number of daily users has dropped precipitously from 181 million daily users to ... 181 million daily users. Facebook's daily user numbers havn't dropped at all. So either they're moving to IG, or people say a lot of things in surveys. EDIT: Meant to specify, the numbers in this comment are US only.
Note this is among American users. With Facebook moving into other markets (see East Asia where their introduction and use might have helped kick off the crisis in Myanmar) drops in the US could easily be covered up by increase elsewhere.
There's just no way I could keep myself up to date with local events without Facebook. I live in a post-soviet country so Snapchat and Instagram are considered pretty niche here so every social event is always documented on Facebook. I also hold a monthly gamedev meetup, which would be utterly impossible without Facebook. The attendance has grown from 5 to 30 people in a few months and is now helping jump start the g…
People make such a big deal out of how impossible their social lives would be without Facebook but never actually try it. I honestly don't get it.
Deleted the app last year, then last September asked for all my data, then closed my account. Long gone was the interesting content in my feed, I only had indoctrinated contacts posting either poor quality content or misinformation. I think facebook lost me when they stopped the chronological feed, which is also why I closed my Instagram account.