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Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us *wish* we could leave them; and even those of us who've escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis
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it reminded me of a phrase in pt_BR: "ninguém solta a mão de ninguém", that comes out in en as "nobody let go of anyone's hand", as in "let's not leave anyone behind, and resist together". it went viral at around the time bolsonaro got elected president. it seemed so fitting to (unintentionally?) bring this back to mind on the day trump got reinaugurated.
The TL, DR is that there are many good reasons people are locked in shitty platforms and we can care about those people and build routes for them to safety.
Yes, it is good to be out and about in the fediverse AND it is good to care about others who are meeting their needs in the best way they can at the moment while we work on evacuating those cesspools and finding ways to get those beautiful babies out of that locked in bathwater
