You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist #DeleteBigTech #DeleteFacebook #fediverse
Trudeau denounces Meta

You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist #DeleteBigTech #DeleteFacebook #fediverse
Trudeau denounces Meta

You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist #DeleteBigTech #DeleteFacebook #fediverse
Trudeau denounces Meta

You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist #DeleteBigTech #DeleteFacebook
Trudeau denounces Meta

TFW YouTube puts up ads for Epoch Time's anti-trans "documentary" for a trans-supporter's video I'm watching on the "rapid onset gender dysphoria" "research" paper getting pulled. This is after I've flagged it multiple times as hate speech, not that I expected it to get pulled because...Google, and I've asked not to see ads from this company. I'm guessing this is a well funded sock puppetted right wing operation behind it. Of course that too would be against Google TOS so would get a smack down for any one that isn't right wing...but nope not here...Double standards as usual in social media but for not against the right wing accounts despite what we are told over and over again. Grr... #DeleteBigTech #rant #lgbt #YouTube #Google #enshittification

I avoid Tik Tok because I hate centralized big tech surveillance capitalism companies and already have enough pangs of guilt about not being able to fully unplug from Facebook (and until this year Twitter). However we've known they have been as or more sketchy with their practices than Facebook for some time. The magnitude of how much worse they have been comes to light with each passing day. If I were you I would never install their app (or any of these companies' apps) on your device. I wouldn't create an account. At this point I wouldn't even navigate to links to videos someone shares with you. #tiktok #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteSurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteBigTech #DeleteTikTok www.forbes.com/sites/emilybake…

I'm a fan of breaking up big-tech monopolies and duopolies. They shouldn't exist at this scale in the first place. I'm a fan of having more reasonable store fees than this 30% nonsense (which isn't unique to Apple). What I have no time for are other monopolists doing this sour grapes BS around Apple: Musk, Zuck, Spotify, etc. You are salty that Apple is skimming too much off your own attempts to create monopolies in other industries. Fuck off you hypocritical greedy dirtbags. #monopoly #facebook #apple #spotify #musk #Zuckerberg #DeleteBigTech #BreakupMonopolies

Truth be told I've never mourned it. I have mourned for years being forced to use these walled gardens controlled by tech bro billionaires as they try to horde all the money, power and data (our data). I'll be popping champagne if/when any of these platforms collapse. How will we get by? We got by without them before we can do it again. The bigger problem is that the void could easily be filled with a far more nefarious operation. Just witness how much Tik Tok has flown under the radar just like Facebook did for so long. We as a society learn little to nothing. #DeleteTwitter #DeleteBigTech #BillionairesShouldNotExist

♲ @atomicpoet@mastodon.social:

I'm done mourning Twitter.

Now I want to help build the actual future of social media.

And there is no future of social media without the Fediverse.

Under normal circumstances I only respond to connection requests from people with populated profiles with a posts history. As part of the #twittermigration I'm pretty much accepting anyone hoping that my little stream of the world helps show them that there is a lot to stick around for. #DeleteTwitter #DeleteFacebook #DeleteBigTech

...and related to my prior post by the end of this year you will have anti-democracy people making the decisions on this stuff on all major social media platforms: Meta/Facebook (see Kaplan, Clegg, Andreesen, Thiel), Twitter (Musk and his band of alt-right tech bro assholes including Thiel again), Tik Tok (god knows what nefarious shit they have planned in collusion with the Chinese government), and then the willful ignorance of others like YouTube who let this shit run wild too. Secondary media is no better sadly, just check out the amount of insanity on Rumble, PeerTube, etc. along with the special built right wing social media systems. The anti-democracy movement is so thoroughly flooding the zone it is inescapable at this point. Most of the world are acting like lambs being led to the slaughter. Disheartening. Infuriating #DeleteFacebook #DeleteTwitter #DeleteTikTok #DeleteBigTech

The headline is misleading. The mayhem is already going on and they are doing so little to stop the same election fraud bullshit we've now had repeatedly to the point where just typing "election fraud" leads to MAGA sites pushing the same conspiracies as usual. Is it incompetence or malfeasance on the part of big social media at this point? #DeleteFacebook #DeleteTwitter #DeleteTikTok #DeleteBigTech apnews.com/article/2022-midter…

This is a compelling art project combining open camera data from various surveillance cameras and Instagram influencers' posts over a 10 day period. This is done by an individual with limited resources for art. With that low a barrier to entry I can only imagine what nefarious actors could do. All of this is child's play compared to what the big tech platforms can and are doing with all this data. #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteBigTech driesdepoorter.be/thefollower/

I've been saying for awhile that TikTok is as bad or worse than Facebook. They just didn't have the numbers to bring the adverse attention to themselves yet. I guess we are finally getting there. I need to check to make sure that the between all the Firefox browser, Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials, and Facebook Container tech I use to eliminate this tracking by Facebook works against these TikTok exploits. As the article says, just like with Facebook's tech, you don't have to have an account on these systems for them to be tracking you all over the internet and selling your data. #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteTikTok #DeleteBigTech www.consumerreports.org/electr…

...god the second time through these Tesla v. Musk messages is even more enraging...for people who don't follow this shit it's going to seem rather bland but for people like me that have been sick of watching these assholes make billions fucking over everyone *and* convincing people they need even less encumbrances to do more of the same to fix it I am just totally beside myself. They are all high on their own supply and licking their chops at greenwashing their plan to make even bigger fortunes and consolidation of power as they make an even bigger shit show of things. Also note that all the billionaires in the core of the exchange are uber-right wingers except Jack Dorsey who is an I don't know what, faux-boddhisatva who buys the salvation complex of silicon valley tech bro culture. It's funny they think that the right wing is the most persecuted where between them all those right wingers own upwards of $1 trillion in assets, control trillions more in assets, control major publishing companies, etc. But it's the evil lefties that need to be put in their place. Fuck off. #MuskIsADick #BillionairesShouldNotExist #DeleteBigTech

Want to get your blood boiling this morning then read the text message exchanges in the Twitter v. Musk discovery. Yes it was as bad or worse than I thought in terms of Musk's more than dabbling with ultra-right wing agitprop actors in this (Thiel, Mercers, Murdochs) and it is all about the greatest hits of right wing persecution complex (that part not as surprising). All of them are as much techbro JAQ off nihilists *at best*, including Jack Dorsey. <sarcasm>Good thing they don't have billions each and social clout to fuck everything up even more so they can gain more money and influence</sarcasm> Grr #MuskIsADick #DeleteBigTech #BillionairesShouldNotExist nitter.net/kateconger/status/1…

Yup. Even "the good ones" have, especially once they got monopoly or duopoly level status with mass adoption. It's almost like there is a formula or something. And yes, look at the business models being presented for AI and metaverse platforms and it makes the already horrible era of surveillance capitalism look quaint but with ads on top to boost. #geekhumor #devhumor #DeleteBigTech