RT @sivavaid@twitter.com Quitting Facebook lets Google and Twitter off the hook. It lets AT&T off the hook. It lets Comcast off the hook. And it does nothing to hurt Facebook. Facebook does not care about one among 2.2 billion users. Act as a citizen, not a Facebook user. Demand regulation.
I honestly think all of these arguments come from people who for some reason can't bring themselves to leave Facebook. Yes, large structural change is needed, but you should also close your account. The site has one purpose: collect and sell your data and show you ads. That's it.
Does your own household recycling matter? No. We do it anyway and hope that as a society we'll all do it. Does your boycotting of corporations that support evil politicians matter alone? No. We do it anyway and hope many will join us. Boycotts work as a tactic. Boycott Facebook.
Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.
@omanreagan I wish there were better tools to do these things off of Facebook.
@ajroach42 @omanreagan meetup, eventrbite and moodle for universities? Off the top of my head..
@mikedd How exactly other cebttalised, proprietary, for-profit platforms like eventbrite or meetup are better than facebook?
As far as I can rembember, eventbrite's terms of use are shitty…
@devnull @ajroach42 @omanreagan well..I guess, yeah, that makes sense. So what then?
@mikedd What about using/recommending better tools (decentralised libre software), or of it doesn't exist yet, build/fund it?
@devnull @ajroach42 @omanreagan yeah that's what I meant. What would you recommend? I can't really think of any since I don't use anything for those kind of tasks..
@mikedd Well, that's a good question. My needs are quite simple (knowning who'll be there and/or deciding which moment suits most people) so I use Framadate
@mikedd Thanks for the link. But do you know who's behind this behind prism-break? Some data is out of date
@devnull @ajroach42 @omanreagan no idea but yeah, some of it is out of sync. Also if you want the same thing but for android..again, dunno who maintains it but here we go https://droid-break.info/
@mikedd And LineageOS without gapps
@devnull @omanreagan @ajroach42 yeah, the good old days 😍
The EFF is behind it, aren't they?
But it was launched around the time of the Prism disclosure. That was a long time ago.
@ajroach42 @devnull @omanreagan june 2014 afaik
@devnull @ajroach42 @omanreagan oh sweet never heard of this! Will have a look :)
Also, if you didn't already know about this, there's a huge collection of stuff here https://prism-break.org/