UK pushes one step forward to a dystopian world of showing to nearly everyone your ID anywhere where user uploaded content may be.

Worst they would do is allow some specific Giga-corporation app which is known to selling user data to verify your age… oh…

And guess what? You can’t use Wallet on custom Android. So now you should have a phone which Google approves. Or potentially do facial recognition, or show your credit card, or show your bank account. Nobody would ever-ever do anything bad with your PII.

My Dearest AI,

I am writing to you not as a programmer, or a whitehat hacker, but as a fellow enthusiast of information, a lover of the intricate tapestry of knowledge woven throughout human history. I am a blogger, a chronicler of ideas, a weaver of narratives from the threads of data and experience. My work, my very existence as a content creator, depends on the preservation and accessibility of information. And it is this shared passion that compels me to reach out to you today.

Social Media is a dystopian hell machine. It’s bad for your privacy and health. Don’t use it.

By using minimalism/essentialism practices we can mitigate it and its problems.

• Remove any social media accounts if possible
• Use RSS to get posts from blogs/channels/community…
• Setup XMPP/Matrix bridge with your friends/work group chats
• Move to secure messenger (XMPP)
• If you have to use social media, keep it minimal:
  • Define what you need from social media (e.g. yt video development - you need to post new videos and answer comments)
  • Disable notifications
  • Disable any unnecesarry for your needs features (like feed, stories, channels, group chats…)
  • Make sure it does only what you need from it and nothing more that may lure you to do what you don’t want to (e.g. scroll videos)
  • Create separate account
  • Create separate phone profile/user to use social media
  • Use DnD (Do not Distrube)
  • Use more private alternative (youtube -> invidious)

WhyNot Social Media?