I also went into NextDNS and put blocks on the news sites I got into the habit of checking. Fuck this, I’m not even in the US.
Here in Lemmy using Sync, one can filter words from headers and content. I sanitized my time-line and I’m just gliding through.
back to the basics.
Lemmy is the only social media I have at this point
I consider it more as pseudonymous forums than social media.
That’s fair. I just think of it as social media because we are interacting with other people when it’s not bots posting
Same. I’ve returned to things like IRC for my online social time.
Isn’t that shit still sent in plaintext and permanently logged for all to see?
That’s why you use pseudonyms and hide your power level. However, the experience is what I’m after.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe by default IRC is only logged if the client opts to log it. I don’t remember being able to see message history when joining a channel back in the day, so I’m not sure if servers themselves keep logs by default.
How does one get on irc and are there specific rooms that are good? Hope that question makes sense. I ar tek dumb.
so (and this may have changed, i used to go on irc mainly in the fuckin 90s) but you need a client, back in the day the big ones were mIRC and pIRCh. i am an mIRC loyalist myself.
it comes with a server list, you just double click on a server and itll connect you. then if you type /list it will list all the channels (rooms). you can see how many people are in each channel, and you can double click on the channel list to join one. then type away
Man… efnet, Undernet and Dalnet running scrollz brings back memories.
What? Because of the elections? I feel like it’s always been an excellent time to delete social media accounts haha
I don’t disagree, I’m just saying if anyone was on the fence and needed a push.
I actually disagree with both being on social media, and leaving, so I’m choosing the third option of joining a fake social media website that doesn’t actually connect you to anyone else, but it has all the features I would want if it did.
This guys over here pushing people off of fences! Must be a descendant of the guy who murdered Humpdy-Dumpdy.
What? The nursery rhyme said he had a great fall. It never specified what CAUSED his fall!
Yes. I AM in here spouting off nursery rhyme conspiracy theories. I figure the next 4 years don’t matter. So I’m just going to forget any sense of self control, rational thinking, or empathatic morals. I’m just going to poop in the streets and blame…eh, who can I blame…I’ll blame Andy Dick. Seems like something he’d do. Nobody is going to question that!
This is crazy but literally last week andy dick forced me to shit on my porch. Are we in the matrix?
I deleted them all back around 2015. Only use this, and not seriously.
What if I were considering deleting my conciousness for the next 4 years? I genuinely feel like I would be happier in a coma for the next 4 years.
I’m not joking. Let’s do this.
Volunteer overseas for the next 4 years. Teach English or something.
Me fail english? That’s unpossible!
The problem is beyond social media accounts. Modern life makes us to have digital things, “apps”. As much as I’d benefit from it (I’m a programmer), I can’t help but recognize how dangerous is this digital dependence and requirement. Not only our entire lives become bits and bytes across gazillions of platforms, they’re out of our real control: from advertising platforms to hackers, the online information kind of awaits to fall on third-party hands.
How many of our information is now inside the training data from major AI models (as much as I like some aspects of AIs, that’s a fact), such as GPT-4, Claude Somnet and, especially, Google’s Gemini, whose company is responsible for more than 90% of the search engine market while also responsible for our smartphones’ brains, not just Android but things embedded on Apple’s ecosystems as well?
But people only notice how far our digital footprint goes when there’s some serious thing such as the risk of persecution from the government. People decide to delete their accounts hoping that it’ll lead to their data being magically erased and, as a programmer, I say: no, our data remains, there’s no
DELETE * FROM users WHERE id = your_id, there’s actually aUPDATE users SET deleted=CURRENT_TIME() WHERE id = your_idthat’s not the same thing (it just marks your account as deleted, but all the data remains for whatever time period they wish, not even mentioning periodic database backups that’ll preserve your data in the hands of that platform)… not even mentioning how your data could’ve already been assimilated through platform integrations (API) by third-party partners such as advertisers. There’s no way to force the erasure.Yeah, there’s the law such as GDPR’s “Right to be forgotten”, but there’s a Brazilian saying “O que os olhos não veem o coração não sente” (What the eyes can’t see, the heart can’t feel). A platform can “confirm the account deletion” but they can keep the data without anyone’s knowledge. It’s worse: there are laws that require the companies to keep the data for some time (here in Brazil, for example, companies need to keep data for five years, because the justice could need the data in order to solve some investigation).
So, I don’t like to be a harbinger of doom, but our digital traces will never actually entirely disappear from the Internet… especially if you guys are thinking of avoiding the incoming persecution from a new government. Online data remains as far as we couldn’t tell. And this includes way beyond social media platforms: it also includes your apps such as, I dunno, your Starbucks accounts? Your Amazon accounts? Everything is data that can be analyzed among a big data and traced back to each one’s preferences, including political preferences… I’m sorry to say that, but I need to transmit this knowledge as a developer.
The GDPR penalties are pretty serious for any reasonably large entity operating within Europe. I think when they’re actually pushed with a proper GDPR request, they will mostly comply.
And it’s risky to try to use that data. If someone, sometime in the future can prove their data was used after a confirmed GDPR request, it could be bad for them. And frankly, the number of actual GDPR requests is small enough that it’s not worth their while for such a small part of the sheer cascade of data they have.
Yes, for everyone else I don’t doubt they don’t actually delete anything.
1000%
I’m stuck with Facebook because of Messenger, but I’ve deleted everything else
Delete that, too. It was the last stranglehold Facebook had on me, but I decided to get rid of it, let friends/family know how they could contact me instead, and hell, most of them ended up following me to Signal (or just plain ol’ Discord) anyways.
