@Groosha Quelle surprise

@Groosha @aral I just deleted my Instagram and it seems to be ‘deleted’ - I can’t login anymore and my username 404s on the site.

@kiron @aral it shows "Page not available" for me either, but the fact that Facebook still tracks my account (both photos :D) somewhere on their servers bothers me a lot.

Deletion must be... well, deletion. Not "hiding" or "moving".

@Groosha I‘m waiting for the backup of my data and it goes next (or Google, depending on which get me my backups first) :)

@ChrisWilson *mumbles under his breath* :)

@aral never did the Facebag myself. Though I am active on the tweeters...mostly because of our show...though I think I was shadow banned as I spent some time posting replies to sponsored content explaining why life is better without the said product or service.

Much prefer the mostly unregulated fediverse and extended anarchic protocols and projects. It’s a Petrie dish of human interaction. Some of the blooms are truly fascinating

@ChrisWilson I’m keeping my Twitter account for now… but constantly weighing up the pros and cons (and pushing Mastodon whenever I can).

@yimo I hear you. As long as institutions, local community groups, etc., keep using it, we are going to have a hard time gaining herd immunity.

That said, we can push those groups to use free and open/decentralised and peer-to-peer alternatives as they become available.

@morrick I opened mine something like 11 years ago. I was young and naive :)

Happy New Year!

@manicthemod You win ;)

@harald That sort of push-back can be useful too unless you depend on those groups for some reason (depends on privilege and power relationships). But yes, if you can do that, do it.

@tim This is what keeps me up at nights ;)

@rpf https://2018.ar.al/notes/spyware-vs-spyware/

I no longer feel the risk is worth it. And with Facebook’s algorithms, goodness knows who you’re reaching anyway. And it’s at a point where I feel legitimising the platform with your presence nullifies any positive good you can do on it by trying to use it against the grain. And the mainstream media has turned against the platform so people can actually read about the issues elsewhere.

@aral Good to know. we need to do extra effort to inform friends and family of the dangers of Facebook and Google. ;)

@monstermonstre Not sure about other jurisdictions but in the EU we have the right to be forgotten and we also have the right to have our data deleted under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I had the option to delete the account in my Settings.

@aral I live in europe and I never see this option

@dheadshot @aral

Like this: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/how-to-delete-your-facebook-account-really-update/

This seems to have it thoroughly covered.