[stderrout]

The way is to stop using user hostile products and encouraging others to use more open platforms. In Metas own words and many like it by using products/services you are consenting to being product for companies interest as they see fit.

[rpastuszak]

Precisely my approach, and with decent success so far, but for some of my friends this needs to be done in smaller steps. In reality, it’s hard for them to move away overnight since they got tricked into using those tools first. Getting there though.

In other words: I just need a month+ to finish setting up my pixelfed instance after my day job, clear my IG accounts and put a version of this image there instead: https://x.com/rafalpast/status/1778797698302234905.